World-renowned autism expert Dr. Fred Volkmar of the Yale Child Study Center is right here in New Haven.

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The jump in diagnoses could include more mild cases being diagnosed now than before, said Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at Yale University, who wasn't involved in the study.

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Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, who wasn't involved in the recent study, described one former patient who has a master's degree, goes to work and lives on his own, but every night he eats the same meal, canned fish, reads on the computer about software and then goes to bed.

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Through her charitable foundation, sends Spanish fellows to study child psychiatry in England and the U.S. at places like Columbia University's medical center.

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