Dan Kennedy is associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.
Dan Kennedy
Aassistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University in Bloomington
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Negative results
A number of studies have found no connectivity differences between people with autism and controls, but few have been published so far, says Dan Kennedy.
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