Lauren Weiss

Associate professor
University of California, San Francisco

Lauren Weiss is professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Complex gene interactions in autism offer avenues for treatment

By Lauren Weiss
23 May 2017 | 6 min read
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Fair representation for the fairer sex in autism research

By Lauren Weiss
16 August 2011 | 6 min read

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Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience

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This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on the subjectivity of selfhood

Wittlinger, Wehner and Wolf’s 2006 “stilts and stumps” Science paper revealed how ants pull off extraordinary feats of navigation using a biological odometer, and it inspired Tuthill to consider how other insects sense their own bodies.

By John Tuthill
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