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Quantitative autistic traits ascertained in a national survey of 22 529 Japanese schoolchildren

  1. Y. Kamio1,*,
  2. N. Inada1,
  3. A. Moriwaki1,
  4. M. Kuroda1,2,
  5. T. Koyama1,
  6. H. Tsujii1,
  7. Y. Kawakubo2,
  8. H. Kuwabara2,
  9. K. J. Tsuchiya3,
  10. Y. Uno4,
  11. J. N. Constantino5

Article first published online: 22 NOV 2012

DOI: 10.1111/acps.12034

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Kamio Y, Inada N, Moriwaki A, Kuroda M, Koyama T, Tsujii H, Kawakubo Y, Kuwabara H, Tsuchiya KJ, Uno Y, Constantino JN. Quantitative autistic traits ascertained in a national survey of 22 529 Japanese schoolchildren.

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  1. 1

    Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

  2. 2

    Department of Child Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  3. 3

    Research Center for Child Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu University, Hamamatsu, Japan

  4. 4

    Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatry for Parents and Children, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  5. 5

    Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA

* Yoko Kamio, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8553, Japan.
E-mail: kamio@ncnp.go.jp

Publication History

  1. Article first published online: 22 NOV 2012
  2. Manuscript Accepted: 1 OCT 2012

Funded by

  • the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan. Grant Number: H19-KOKORO-006 and H20-KOKORO-004
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Grant Number: HD42541

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