Clare Harrop is assistant professor of allied health sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Clare Harrop
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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When autism researcher Clare Harrop tried to recruit survey participants over social media, she received hundreds of fraudulent responses. But there are ways researchers can protect themselves from similar experiences.
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Learning when to treat repetitive behaviors in autism
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In memoriam: Susumu Tonegawa, ‘intellectual giant’
He won the Nobel Prize for his work on immunology and then went on to define the field of learning and memory.
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