How history forgot the woman who defined autism
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Grunya Sukhareva characterized autism nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger. So why did the latter get all the credit?
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Young children with autism may show brain-fluid buildup
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Autistic children aged 2 to 4 have about 15 percent more fluid between their skull and their brain than their typical peers do.
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