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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2007;297:2683.

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An ongoing study tracking structural and metabolic brain development and behavior in some 500 children across the United States could provide researchers with a reference point for how the normal brain develops, so as to better understand what goes wrong in children who have brain abnormalities caused by genetic disease, prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, or other factors (http://www.brain-child.org/).

A recent report contains the first glimpse of behavioral data from this study, the National Institutes of Health Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Normal Brain Development, which was launched in 1999 (Waber DP et al. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2007;13:1-18). The report assessed IQ; motor dexterity; and language, computation, and social skills among children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years. A total of 385 children and adolescents were recruited within this age range, and they are being evaluated at 3 time points—at the . . . [Full Text of this Article]