Healthy Childhood Brain Development Research Program

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• Treatment of Pediatric Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Research Program Mission 
The Healthy Childhood Brain Development and Traumatology Research Program provides psychiatric evaluations of children and parents affected by maltreatment.  The mission of the Program is to better understand the causes and consequences of maltreatment on brain development.

Support for the Healthy Childhood Brain Development Research Program is provided by Duke University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health. 

Michael D. De Bellis, MD, MPH
Professor and Principal Investigator