Tinca J.C. Polderman

Associate professor
Amsterdam UMC

Tinca Polderman is associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands.

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Restricted behaviors link autism, attention deficit

By Tinca J.C. Polderman, Henrik Larsson
10 October 2014 | 3 min read

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