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Dramatic Increase in Autism Prevalence Parallels Explosion of Research into its Biology and Causes

A researcher says that funding for research on autism is not keeping pace with the growing scale of health challenges autism has created, additional research is required on prenatal and early postnatal neurological development, on environmental and gene risk factors, on treatment, and on adults with autism. Without this research the public will continue to stay in the dark about autism.

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