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Searching for the why behind rising autism rate
Editor’s Note: Catherine Lord is the director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at N.Y.-Presbyterian Hospital and its affiliated medical schools, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College. Story highlights A new government study shows that rate of autism has increased Catherine Lord: It’s striking that increase…