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Joseph Piven

Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Joseph Piven is Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also director of the NIH Autism Center of Excellence Network’s Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS). He served on the American Psychiatric Association committee that wrote the new definition of autism spectrum disorder for the DSM-5.

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Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

April 2016
Opinion / Viewpoint

Correcting the record: Leo Kanner and the broad autism phenotype

by ,  /  26 April 2016

The specter of the ‘refrigerator mother’ theory continues to haunt the history of autism. New information puts Kanner’s observations of parents into context.

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