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. 2024 Apr 23:13:e98461.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.98461.

Five interdisciplinary tensions and opportunities in neurodiversity research

Olujolagbe Layinka #  1 , Luca D Hargitai #  1 , Punit Shah  1 , Lucy H Waldren  1 , Florence Y N Leung  1
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Five interdisciplinary tensions and opportunities in neurodiversity research

Olujolagbe Layinka et al. Elife. .

Abstract

Improving our understanding of autism, ADHD, dyslexia and other neurodevelopmental conditions requires collaborations between genetics, psychiatry, the social sciences and other fields of research.

Keywords: categorial disorders; dimensional traits; human; interdisciplinary research; neurodiversity; neuroscience; point of view.

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Conflict of interest statement

OL, LH, PS, LW, FL No competing interests declared

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Number of scholarly outputs versus year for eight neurodevelopmental conditions between 2003 and 2023.
Data extracted from Google Scholar; the eight conditions are ordered by number of scholarly outputs.
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