Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 9 , Pages 1063-1072 , September 2008

Project Ice Storm: Prenatal Maternal Stress Affects Cognitive and Linguistic Functioning in 5½-Year-Old Children

,Accepted 17 March 2008.

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 Article Plus (online-only) materials for this article appear on the Journal's Web site:www.jaacap.com.This study was supported by grants from the McGill University Stairs Memorial Fund, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and the Douglas Hospital Research Centre, and a research fellowship from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec awarded to Suzanne King. The authors thank the families who have participated in Project Ice Storm since 1998, and Shannon Woo, Cheryl Chanson, and Sawsan Mbirkou for data entry and Lorraine Dubois for assessing the children.

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e31817eec80

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 9 , Pages 1063-1072 , September 2008

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