Louise Gallagher
Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Trinity College Dublin
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Immigrant risk
In Ireland, children born to women who have emigrated from certain African countries are more likely to be diagnosed with autism, and to have more severe symptoms of the disorder, than their peers, says Louise Gallagher.
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