Joseph Piven

Professor
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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Spectrum

By James Harris, Joseph Piven

26 April 2016

10 min read

Correcting the record: Leo Kanner and the broad autism phenotype

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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Correcting the record: Leo Kanner and the broad autism phenotype

By James Harris, Joseph Piven

26 April 2016 | 10 min read

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