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The Stallone Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation provided partial support for this research. Andrew Russell, Linda Bott, and Cathy Sammons did the diagnostic interviews.
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Buchsbaum, M.S., Siegel, B.V., Wu, J.C. et al. Brief report: Attention performance in autism and regional brain metabolic rate assessed by positron emission tomography. J Autism Dev Disord 22, 115–125 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046407
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