Sally Ozonoff is endowed professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis.
Sally Ozonoff
Professor
University of California, Davis MIND Institute
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Sally Ozonoff is looking for early signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in videos of hundreds of younger siblings of children with autism.
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