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Functional maturation of the executive system during adolescence

Theodore D Satterthwaite1, Daniel H Wolf, Guray Erus

  • 1Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA 19104, and Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia PA 19104.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
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