Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 11 , Pages 1233-1251 , November 2008

Neuroimaging Studies of Normal Brain Development and Their Relevance for Understanding Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders

,Accepted 20 June 2008.

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 This work was supported in part by NIMH grants K02-74677, K01-MH077652, T32 MH16434, and MH068318, by National Institute on Drug Abuse grant DA017820, by a grant from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, and by funding from the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Columbia University.Portions of this article were presented at the 2007 research forum The Future of Neuroimaging: Relevance for Child Psychiatry at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Boston, MA, October 2007.This article is the subject of an editorial by Dr. Ellen Leibenluft in this issue.

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