Nicola Grissom is associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Nicola Grissom
Associate professor
University of Minnesota
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Breaking the binary view of sex traits can enable researchers to represent the broader complexity of behavior and cognition.
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Researchers have developed behavioral measures that can accurately diagnose autism in people; these lessons can and should be applied to mice.
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