Sandeep Ravindran is a freelance science writer based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Autism symptoms emerge in infancy, sibling study finds
At 6 months of age, babies who will later develop autism begin to lose some of their social skills and continue to regress until age 3, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Autism symptoms emerge in infancy, sibling study finds
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6 April 2010 | 7 min read
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