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Yirmiya, N. & Charman, T. (2010). The prodrome of autism: early
behavioral and biological signs, regression, peri- and post-natal development and
.genetics. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51, 432-458
The prodrome of autism: Early behavioral and biological signs, regression,
peri- and post-natal development and genetics.
Nurit Yirmiya, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology and School of Education
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Tony Charman, Ph.D.
Centre for Research in Autism and Education
Institute of Education, London, UK
Keywords: autism spectrum disorders, early markers, genetics, brain development,
siblings, perinatal development, diagnosis.
Author notes: Please address all correspondence to Nurit Yirmiya, Dept. of
Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
91905. Email: [email protected]
We wish to thank Sagiv Shifman, Richard Ebstein, Ifat Seidman and Maya Yaari for
their contributions to this manuscript. The first author was supported by the Israeli
Science Foundation (ISF) grant number 18.0-540/03 and by the United States-Israel
Binational Science Foundation (BSF), grant number 2007-209 and the second author
by Autism Speaks (USA), Autism Speaks (UK) and the Medical Research Council.