Seeking to improve lives by advancing research and training in neuroscience, children’s health, medicine, and education.

Seeking to improve the understanding and treatment of child and adolescent ADHD and depression, and to improve access to mental health care for children and their families.

Committed to promoting breakthrough neuroscience research, improving early childhood care and education (particularly among low income children), and enhancing the development of teachers and leaders in independent schools.

Dedicated to the advancement of children’s health in Maine, primarily by improving their oral health.

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Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D.

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…

Dennis Cantwell Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship

EAJK Klingenstein-Simons Annual Neuroscience Conference

May 8-9, 2023
New York, New York

This annual conference allows Fellows to network with their peers, seek feedback on their work, and learn from and exchange ideas with leaders in the field of neuroscience.

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KTG Foundation National Medical Student Annual Conference

February 3-4, 2023
Brown University, Rhode Island

This annual conference allows medical students to network with their peers, present their research and clinical projects, and learn about child psychiatry from experienced mentors. Recent annual conferences were held at University of California, Davis, Iowa, and Tulane and have grown to attract more than 120 participants from programs across the country.

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