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NIH Launches Landmark Study on Substance Use and Adolescent Brain Development

Thirteen grants awarded to look at cognitive and social development in approximately 10,000 children

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 25, 2015.  The National Institutes of Health today awarded 13 grants to research institutions around the country as part of a landmark study about the effects of adolescent substance use on the developing brain. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study will follow approximately 10,000 children beginning at ages 9 to10, before they initiate drug use, through the period…

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