The University of Hawai’i Mānoa plans this fall to begin recruiting some 900 school-aged children for a groundbreaking longterm study into brain development during adolescence. Recruitment for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States, began today across the rest of the U.S.
The landmark study by the National Institutes of Health will follow the biological and behavioral development of more than 10,000 children beginning at ages 9 and 10 through adolescence into early adulthood. Recruitment will be done over a two-year period through partnerships with public and private schools near research sites across the country as well as through twin registries.
The University of Hawai’i’s study will be led by teams at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) and the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center. Among them, Linda Chang, MD (neurologist), Thomas Ernst, PhD (neurophysicist), Thomas Wills, PhD, (Social Psychologist) and Pallav Pokhrel, PhD, MPH (Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics/Epidemiology).
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The University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa team will complete their assessments at the UH Neuroscience and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research Center, located at The Queen’s Medical Center. The UH Neuroscience and MRI Program hosts state-of-the-art brain imaging facilities and has investigators from across multiple disciplines collaborating on a wide variety of neuroimaging research projects.
