Current Studies
Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
The University of Colorado Boulder serves as one of the sites for theÌý, a ground-breaking study of adolescent brain development in over 11,000 individuals in the United States. ÌýThe study is designed to understand how the brain develops during the teen years, and the way in which environmental influences - ranging from exercise to social interactions to experimentation with drugs - influences such development. ÌýThe work at Colorado is a collaboration with the Institute for Behavioral Genetics.ÌýProf. John Hewitt, the Director of IBG, (shown at far right)Ìýserves at the co-Principal investigator for this project. ÌýColorado, along with sites at the University of Minnesota, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Washington University in St. Louis are studying twins to understand how genetic and environmental factors influence the development of the adolescent brain.
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ABCD-USA Consortium: Twin Research Project
U01 DA041120AÌýÌý(Banich and Hewitt, Multiple Project Investigators) Ìý9/30/2015-05/31/2020Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýÌý
Colorado Cognitive Neuroimaging Family Emotion Research (CoNiFER)
The goal of this grant is to understand how brain processes involved in executive function and cognitive control develop duringÌýadolescence, and how the development of those processes may be affected and reciprocally influence emotional processing. ÌýThis study involvesÌýa multi-level approach with information obtained on prefrontalÌýneurotransmitters levels, regional brain activation, behavioral performance, and assessment of factors linked to emotional functioning. ÌýThis project is a colloboration with Ìýat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Brandeis University.
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Prefrontal Mechanisms of Selection: Disrupted in Internalizing Psychopathology?Ìý
1R01MH105501 (Banich and Hankin, Multiple Principal Investigators) 8/21/2015-5/31/2020Ìý ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Clearing the Contents of Working Memory
The goal of this project is to apply machine learning techniques to understand the neural mechanisms by whichÌýÌýinformation is cleared from working memory and the way in which representations of such information are altered by these clearing processes. ÌýSuch processes are disrupted across a large number of psychiatic disorders ranging from depression to anxiety to schizophrenia to obsessive-compulsive disorder. ÌýThis project is a collaboration with at the University of Texas at Austin
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Clearing the Contents of Working Memory: Mechanisms and Representations
1R21MH108848-01A1 (Banich and Lewis-Peacock, Multiple Principal Investigators)ÌýÌýÌýÌý06/20/2015-03/31/2019
Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Learning Disability
The goal of this high-risk/high-reward project is to investigate, using a new and novel theoretical perspective, the neural underpinnings of learning disability. In this project we posit that each of the three major processes that may underlie learning disability as proposed by our center – slowed processing speed, domain specific deficits (separately in reading and in math), and executive dysfunction - can each be linked to specific underlying neural processes.
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Differential Diagnosis in Learning Disability: Project III Functional and Anatomical investigations of Domain-specific and Domain-General Alterations in Neural Systems underlying Math & ReadingÌýDifficulty
P50 HD027802 (Center P.I., Erik Willcutt; Project PI., Banich) 10/1/2017 – 6/30/2022ÌýÌýÌý