Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 9 , Pages 909-918 , September 2009

Early Emergence of Behavior and Social-Emotional Problems in Very Preterm Infants

,Accepted 13 May 2009.

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 This study was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (no. 237117), the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Women's Hospital Research Foundation, and the Brockhoff Foundation. The authors thank the entire VIBeS team, especially Merilyn Bear and Kelly Howard.

PII: S0890-8567(09)60146-5

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181af8235

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 9 , Pages 909-918 , September 2009

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