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A Five-Day Brain Stimulation Protocol Is Improving Social Skills in Young Autistic Children

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The sessions last two minutes. Just 120 seconds of magnetic pulses directed at the left side of the skull, ten times a day, five days running. The cumulative total comes to 90,000 pulses delivered over a working week. That’s the unremarkable-sounding arithmetic behind a clinical trial published this week in The BMJ that is drawing real attention from the autism research community, not for its elegance but for who it actually worked on: children as young as four, including a third who also

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