Barbara Maughan is a

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of Developmental

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at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre,

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. Her research focuses on

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problems in children and

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. Maughan is a member of the Access Committee for CLS Cohorts, which governs the genetic and biomedical data held on the 1958 Birth Cohort (

National Child Development Study The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which follows the lives of 17,415 people born in England, Scotland and Wales from 17,205 women during the week of 3–9 March 1958. The results fro ...

Selected publications

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