Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 435-442 , April 2008

Attentional Bias for Emotional Faces in Children With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

,Accepted 19 August 2007.

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 Accepted August 19, 2007, under the Editorship of Mina K. Dulcan, M.D.This work was supported by a Griffith University research grant to Dr. Waters. The authors thank Trisha Wharton, Dean Vuksanovic, and Julie Henry for assistance with data collection.Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)62399-6

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181642992

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 435-442 , April 2008

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