Ongoing studies

At CBCDwe have a number of studies ongoing that are recruited for using our regular participant database. We also run a number of neuroimaging studies that are recruited for separately.

Other studies that we are involved with include the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings and the Sighted Infants of Blind Parents Study.

Main ongoing research projects:

 

  • BASIS The British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (BASIS) is a collaborative research network for studying the development of brothers and sisters of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our co-ordinating centre is based at The Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development in the Department of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. BASIS aims to encourage collaboration between scientists working in the area by setting up a national centre for recruiting babies for research studies. http://www.basisnetwork.org/
  • BONDS Behaviour and Online Neuroimaging to study the Development of Socialisation. How do infants detect social cues and why do they choose to socialise? http://cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/research/bonds
  • BRIGHT: The Brain Imaging for Global Health project is a longitudinal collaboration of researchers from UCL, Birkbeck, KCL and the MRC Gambia, examining developmental trajectories of babies over the first 1000 days of life. http://www.globalfnirs.org/the-bright-project/
  • Braintools: Braintools is a global project which aims to develop a ‘toolkit’ for measuring brain development in locations all over the world. http://braintools.bbk.ac.uk  
  • Eden Project:  In collaboration with the University of Manchester, we study the behavioural development of babies with NF1 and seek to identify early markers of Autism and ADHD http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/socialdevelopment/eden  
  • EDiTS: Study – In collaboration with King’s College London, we study the early development of babies with Tuberous Sclerosis (TSC) to learn more about the condition with an aim of improving outcomes https://www.edits-study.org  
  • INTERLEARN: The INTERLEARN European Industrial Doctorate programme will train a cohort of five PhD students who can lead a new European-wide initiative to deliver technologically advanced and scientifically rigorous individualised learning paradigms http://cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/research/interlearn/home  
  • LonDownS: The aims of the current project are to understand individual differences during infancy that may be associated with specific neurocognitive characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/london-down-syndrome-consortium/research-themes/infants
  • TrackDev Open Tracking Early Human Development, from Basic Science to Applications http://cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/research/marie-curie-trackdev
  • Motion https://www.motion-eu.org/   
  • Noise & Learning http://cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/research/noise-and-learning  
  • STAARS The Studying Autism and ADHD Risks (STAARS) project will be specifically researching the early development of baby brothers and sisters of children with autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorders and typical development. https://www.staars.org/
  • Tablet Project.  We are studying how 6 month to 3 year old infants are using touchscreen devices and how this use (or lack of use) is influencing their cognitive, brain and social development. https://www.cinelabresearch.com/tablet-project