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The Neuroscience of Early Intervention: Moving Beyond Our Appeals to Fear

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Specialty Psychiatry
Date 2021 Feb 27
PMID 33636993
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Abstract

This viewpoint is a continuation of the debate on the early intervention movement in psychiatry. The criticisms of Malhi and colleagues have generated some fundamental questions about the priorities of the early intervention movement and the need for further work. In particular, the summons sent to neuroscience need to be more specific in the near future. We may be doing well with what we have, but more directed efforts are needed to purposefully seek what we do not.

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