Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 114-127 , February 2009

Risk and Resilience: Early Manipulation of Macaque Social Experience and Persistent Behavioral and Neurophysiological Outcomes

,Accepted 27 August 2008.

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 This article was reviewed under and accepted by Associate Editor James J. Hudziak, M.D.Financial support was provided by Yale Child Study Center Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program.The authors thank Jean Adnopoz, Joseph Woolston, and Linda Mayes for collaboration in organizing conferences on the topic covered in this review.

PII: S0890-8567(09)60005-8

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e318193064c

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 114-127 , February 2009

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