Oscar Miranda Dominguez

Assistant professor
Oregon Health and Science University

Oscar Miranda-Dominguez is research assistant professor of behavioral neuroscience at Oregon Health and Science University.

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Unique brain ‘fingerprints’ may narrow search for autism subtypes

By Damien Fair, Oscar Miranda Dominguez
10 July 2018 | 5 min read

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