Using intervention trials in developmental psychiatry to illuminate basic science

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 323-325

  Green, Jonathan ^a   Dunn, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; INTERVENTION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 43749089364     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.046284     Document Type: Review

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