Current Studies
Brain & Infant Behavior (BIB) Study
This study is currently recruiting 13- to 15-month-old infants. This study aims to understand the brain networks that support infant behavior. We are particularly interested in understanding the brain’s involvement in attention, fear, and control processes in infancy. By understanding brain development in infancy we hope to improve our ability to identify individuals at risk for social-emotional difficulties.
If you're interested in joining this study, please click the link below for more information!
Novelty and Early Assessment of Temperament (NEAT) Study
This study is currently recruiting 3- to 5-month-old infants. How babies process novel experiences has been related to risk for the later development of anxiety. This study aims to understand the brain networks that may explain responses to novelty during the first months of life. Characterizing these neural patterns may help us better support children’s mental health outcomes beginning in infancy.
If you're interested in joining this study, please click the link below for more information, email ibb-lab@nyulangone.org, or call 718-514-5421 for more information!
Baby ENIGMA Study
Behavioral inhibition is among the most robust behavioral markers of risk for developing social anxiety. However, we still know relatively little about the neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and whether they may be useful for early identification of those at risk—particularly in the first few years of life. The aim of the project is to compile two large datasets in service of identifying reliable associations between the infant brain and behavioral inhibition.
The first dataset will include longitudinal studies of infant temperament. Our goal is to combine datasets that have measured infant temperament and clinical outcomes to better understand risk trajectories and to inform data harmonization in the second dataset. If you have a longitudinal dataset that includes assessment of temperament and you’re interested in collaborating, please email Courtney Filippi (Courtney.filippi@nyulangone.org).
The second dataset will include infant MRI studies that have obtained any assessment of temperament. These assessments are commonly parent-reports of temperament (e.g., Infant Behavior Questionnaire, Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire, etc). Our goal is to combine datasets to identify reliable associations between behavioral inhibition and brain structure/connectivity. If you have an infant imaging (age 0-5 years) dataset that includes temperament data and you’re interested in collaborating, please email Courtney Filippi (Courtney.filippi@nyulangone.org)
This study is being conducted in collaboration with the Anxiety and Childhood Temperament subgroups of the ENIGMA Consortium. Prior to participating all sites must sign a Memorandum of Understanding to participate in an ENIGMA project and data sharing with the Filippi lab must be established.
Brain Development & Infant Temperament Study
The baby brain changes remarkably over the first three years of life. This project aims to quantify some of these changes using the Baby Connectome Project dataset, a large publicly available dataset that is providing remarkable insight into brain development. Ongoing data analysis is examining how brain connectivity changes over the first few years of life and whether these changes predict toddler behavioral control or temperament.