Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 11 , Pages 1311-1320 , November 2008

Regional Gray Matter Volume Deficits in Adolescents With First-Episode Psychosis

,Accepted 19 June 2008.

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 This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, RETICS RD06/0011(REM-TAP Network), CIBER-SAM, CDTEAM, Program CÉNIT of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, and the Juan de la Cierva program of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.The authors thank all of the participating families for their cooperation.This article is the subject of an editorial by Dr. Ellen Leinbenluft in this issue.

PII: S0890-8567(08)60122-7

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e318184ff48

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 11 , Pages 1311-1320 , November 2008

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