Stelios Georgiades

Assistant professor
McMaster University

Stelios Georgiades is associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He is founder and co-director of the McMaster Autism Research Team.

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Spectrum

By Stelios Georgiades

15 May 2017

5 min read

Tracing autism’s trajectories could help explain its diversity

Studying the heterogeneity of autism features over time can help us understand why some children do better or worse than expected.

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Tracing autism’s trajectories could help explain its diversity

By Stelios Georgiades

15 May 2017 | 5 min read

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