Some examples of research projects underway at the BCCH MRI Research Facility over the past year include:
 

 

• Typical and atypical visual brain development;

• Networks underlying cognitive impairment and non-pharmaceutical interventions in schizophrenia;

• Early brain structure and function in newborn infants with prenatal exposure to maternal depressed mood and antidepressant medication;

• Language localization and lateralization in children with autism spectrum disorder;

• Neuroimaging of children with pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorders;

• Structural and functional brain differences in children with developmental coordination disorder;

• Brain changes following intervention for dyslexia

• The role of fatty acids in brain development of healthy children;

• Language mapping for planning of pediatric epilepsy surgery, and

• Traumatic brain injury in adolescent athletes.

• Effects of air pollution on cognition

• Synergizing-omics to discover treatable intellectual disabilities

• Measures of cartilage health in Perthes disease

• Perception-action coupling in infancy

• Predicting treatment response in depression