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Ella-Marie P Hennessey1, Olga Kepinska2, Stephanie L Haft3

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences and Dyslexia Center, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA; Multi-University Precision Learning Center, 401 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 S. Race Street, Denver, CO, 80210, USA.

Biological Psychology
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Keywords:
ChildrenChronic stressCortisolDehydroepiandrosteroneExecutive function

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