Learn about the relationship between the gut-brain axis, mental health, and autism.
The speaker:
Calliope Holingue, MPH, PhD is a research faculty member at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute. A psychiatric epidemiologist by training, she also has a joint academic appointment as an assistant professor from the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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