Mirko Uljarević is clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in California.
Mirko Uljarević
Senior Research Fellow
School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia
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Teasing apart insistence on sameness with Mirko Uljarević
The hallmark autism trait has multiple facets, Uljarević and his colleagues have found.
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30 October 2023 | 6 min read
In search of ‘social’ subtypes of autism
Grouping autistic people based on their social abilities may reveal subtypes of the condition.
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21 July 2020 | 5 min read
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