Philippe Mourrain

Associate professor
Stanford University

Philippe Mourrain is associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in California.

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How studying sleep in animals could unearth autism’s roots

By Philippe Mourrain
3 September 2019 | 4 min read

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