Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 1098-1105, October 1994

Role of the Mother's Touch in Failure to Thrive: A Preliminary Investigation

  • H. JONATHAN POLAN, M.D.

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  • MARY J. WARD, PH.D.

Dr. Polan is with the Laboratory of Developmental Processes, Department of Psychiatry, and Dr. Ward is with the Division of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY

Accepted 16 February 1994.

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 This research was supported in part by grants from the Chairman's Committee for Special Research, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College (to Dr. Polan), the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (grant 12-183, to Dr. Ward and Dr. Daniel B. Kessler), and the National Institutes of Health (Clinical Research Center grant RR-00047). The authors thank Daniel B. Kessler, M.D., Susannah Altman, Ph.D., Diane George, M.D., Carol Brinckerhoff, Alicia Boellner, M.D., Andrew Leon, Ph.D., Shelley Lee, M.S., and Theodore Shapiro, M.D.

PII: S0890-8567(09)64114-9

doi:10.1097/00004583-199410000-00005

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 1098-1105, October 1994

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