Tinca Polderman is associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands.
Tinca J.C. Polderman
Associate professor
Amsterdam UMC
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Restricted behaviors in autism represent a genetic link with inattention and hyperactivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, say Tinca Polderman and Henrik Larsson.
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