Biological Psychiatry
Volume 62, Issue 9 , Pages 999-1006 , 1 November 2007

Temporal Lobe Dysfunction in Medication-Naïve Boys With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder During Attention Allocation and Its Relation to Response Variability

  • Katya Rubia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Katya Rubia, Ph.D., Department of Child Psychiatry/MRC Center for Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP), Institute of Psychiatry, 16 De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
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  • Anna B. Smith

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
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  • Michael J. Brammer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics and Computing, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Eric Taylor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Received 6 February 2007 ,Revised 21 February 2007 ,Accepted 24 February 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.02.024

Biological Psychiatry
Volume 62, Issue 9 , Pages 999-1006 , 1 November 2007

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