Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 749-756 , July 2009

Oculomotor Anomalies in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence for Deficits in Response Preparation and Inhibition

,Accepted 12 March 2009.

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 This study was supported by grant HD-24061 from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; grants R01 NS050153, NS 35359, R01 NS043480, R01 NS047781, and K02 NS044850 from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; and grant UL1-RR025005 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, a National Institutes of Health/National Center for Research Resources–Clinical and Translational Science Awards program.

PII: S0890-8567(09)60112-X

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181a565f1

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 7 , Pages 749-756 , July 2009

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