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UNC-Chapel Hill Produces Innovative Autism Research

One in 68 children in the United States will develop autism spectrum disorder, according to the . The field of autism research has grown rapidly in the past few decades, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is at the . 

Researchers have made breakthroughs ranging from findings that identify , to a to predict whether babies with autistic siblings will develop autism themselves.

Host Frank Stasio talks with , a UNC-Chapel Hill psychiatrist, who directs the .

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Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's ¹ÏÉñapp Director.
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