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  • 1Nanda Rommelse, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, and Karakter, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Kevin Antshel, PhD, Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, New York, USA; Stijn Smeets, PhD, Center for Giftedness Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Corina Grever, PhD, Karakter, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and King's College London, Medical Research Council Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, London, UK; Lianne Hoogeveer, PhD, Centre for Giftedness Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Stephen V. Faraore, PhD, Departments of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and Physiology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, New York, USA, and K. G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Catharina A. Hartmar, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Centre of Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation and Research, School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands n.lambregts-rommelse@psy.umcn.nl.

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