Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 69-75 , January 2006

Obstetric complications in individuals diagnosed with autism and in healthy controls

  • Daniel Stein

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Abraham Weizman

      Affiliations

    • Geha Psychiatric Hospital and Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 03 9258290; fax: +972 3 9241041.
    • ,
  • Aliza Ring

      Affiliations

    • Ababanel Mental Health Center, Bat Yam, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Yoram Barak

      Affiliations

    • Ababanel Mental Health Center, Bat Yam, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.01.001

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 69-75 , January 2006

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