Laura DeNardo, Ph.D.
Yi-Rong Peng, Ph.D.
Giorgia Michelini, Ph.D.
Project Title Identifying prevention targets to avert ADHD persistence, depression and suicide in youth with ADHD Project Summary Over half of children with ADHD still experience clinically significant levels of ADHD as adolescents and young adults, which leads to numerous long-term negative outcomes. One of the most alarming outcomes is the emergence of depression, as…
Weizhe Hong, Ph.D.
Elaine Y. Hsiao, Ph.D.
Jeff Donlea, Ph.D.
Ming Guo, M.D., Ph.D.
James W. Bisley, Ph.D.
Alvaro Sagasti, Ph.D.
Joshua Trachtenberg, Ph.D.
Yi E. Sun, Ph.D.
Kelsey C. Martin, Ph.D.
Sheila Nirenberg, Ph.D.
Thomas J. O’Dell, Ph.D.
Alcino J. Silva, Ph.D.
Diane M. Papazian, Ph.D.
Lucy J. Treiman, Ph.D.
Robert C. Collins, Ph.D.
Pamela K. Douglas-Gutman, Ph.D.
PROJECT TITLE Data Mining and Interpretation of the ADHD 200 Data Set PROJECT SUMMARY In 2012, the global ADHD200 machine learning (ML) competition challenged the neuroscientific and data mining communities to develop pattern classification tools to predict ADHD diagnosis based on structural and functional MRI data. This competition provided one of the largest neuroimaging data…
Agatha Lenartowicz, Ph.D.
PROJECT TITLE Multimodal brain imaging of neural connectivity in ADHD PROJECT SUMMARY Our ability to attend to sights and sounds of interest, ignore distraction and maintain focus relies on the flexible engagement and disintegration of neural networks, at the core of which lies the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The impairment of these processes in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity…
Bowen Chung, M.D.
PROJECT title Factors associated with psychotropic medication prescription in children and adolescents with depression and co-morbid disorders PROJECT SUMMARY An area of research that I would like to focus on over the next two years would be to use an existing dataset, the Caring for California Initiative, to begin to do descriptive work examining the…