Philippe Mourrain is associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in California.
Philippe Mourrain
Associate professor
Stanford University
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Sleep problems may contribute to autism's underlying biology — a connection that scientists can study in animal models.
How studying sleep in animals could unearth autism’s roots
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