Nancy Zucker is founder and director of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Nancy Zucker
Associate professor
Duke Center for Eating Disorders
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Anorexia sometimes accompanies autism in girls. Refusing food may mute the confusing array of stimuli that is particularly difficult for a girl with autism to handle.
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19 October 2015 | 6 min read
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