Current studies supported by MIDB
See current studies supported by the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain. Contact [email protected] with questions.
| Principal Investigator(s) | Study name |
| Burrows, Casey | Autism and Neurodevelopment Clinic and Pediatric Neuropsychology Clinic Database |
| Burrows, Casey | Autism and pediatric neuropsychology database project |
| Conelea, Christine | TEAL (TAA CBIT) |
| Conelea, Christine | Neuromodulation and Exposure Therapy for Youth with OCD (NExT) |
| Conelea, Christine | Transcranial magnetic stimulation to augment behavior therapy for tics |
| Conelea, Christine | Quantification of tics in tourette syndrome |
| Conelea, Christine and Nelson, Steve | Mapping Individual Networks for TMS (MINT) |
| Cullen, Kathryn | Imagination Studio: piloting the feasibility and mechanisms of a novel participatory arts intervention for college students with depression |
| Cullen, Katie | NEA - Imagination Central |
| Cullen, Katie | NEA Research Lab - Imagination Central |
| Cullen, Katie | Creativity Camp study |
| Dimian, Adele | Assessment of repetitive, challenging, sensory, and pain behavior among individuals with CFC syndrome |
| Domingo, Kristine | Evaluation of deep brain stimulation patients and post-operation lucency |
| Elaine McCarthy | Iron status and neurological outcomes in maternal-infant birth cohorts |
| Elgersma, Kristin | Nutrition, growth, and neurodevelopment for infants with critical congenital heart disease |
| Elison, Jed | Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) — MRI based presymptomatic prediction of ASD |
| Elison, Jed | Early development in agenesis of the corpus callosum |
| Elison, Jed | Phenoscreening — parsing early emerging heterogeneity related to autism spectrum disorder |
| Elison, Jed | Infant Phenoscreening — testing a new approach for early identification of ASD |
| Elison, Jed | Parent perspectives on social behavior |
| Esler, Amy | Natural history of Fragile X: FORWARD-MARCH study |
| Esler, Amy | Obesity in autism project |
| Esler, Amy | Autism hospital toolkit |
| Esler, Amy | Validation of the ADI-3 |
| Fair, Damien | Containerizing abcd-dicom2bids |
| Fair, Damien | ABCD-BIDS community collection (ABCC Project) |
| Gu, Lidan & Kizilbash, Sarah | Neurocognitive concerns in kidney transplant candidates and recipients |
| Gunlicks-Stoessel, Meredith | A pilot study of a parenting intervention for parents of adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury |
| Gunlicks-Stoessel, Meredith | HEART-P |
| Gunlicks-Stoessel, Meredith | A pilot study of a parenting intervention for parents of adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury |
| Hamed Ekhtiari, | fMRI guided individualized TMS to manage drug craving in people with methamphetamine use disorder |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Evaluation of a mentorship program for individuals with autism spectrum disorder |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Examining the Impact of Art Therapy for Adolescents with ASD and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Anxiety |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Evaluating a Strengths-Based Community Mentoring Program for Autistic Youth and Adults |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Pilot RCT of a community mentoring program for youth and adults with autism |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Evaluation of a mentorship program for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Art therapy for children with ASD and anxiety |
| Hudock, Rebekah | PEERS telehealth intervention for NF1 |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Autism and Neurodevelopment Treatment Database |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Transitioning to employment |
| Hudock, Rebekah | Transition Supports for Individuals with Autism and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
| Hudock, Rebekah | AMP community engagement with diverse communities |
| Hudock, Rebekah | ADHD parent behavior training - focus groups |
| Hudock, Rebekah | MLC data and program evaluation |
| Hussein, Haitham M. | Race/ethnicity impact on stroke quality of care (RISQ) |
| Hussein, Haitham M. | NeuroGlove phase II trial (NG2) |
| Ip, Ka | Developmental pathways linking disparities in neighborhood quality to mental health outcomes among adolescents: A bioecological approach to understand effects of structural racism |
| Johnson, Luke | Sleep-specific DBS therapy for Parkinson's Disease |
| Kunin-Batson, Alicia | Exploration of exosomes in the NET-Works cohort |
| Kunin-Batson, Alicia | Baby's first years study |
| LeSage, Mark | Development of an animal model to identify common serum-based biomarkers of prenatal methamphetamine exposure and its adverse consequences between rats and humans |
| Mejia, Angie | Catching up' In a post-Roe world: Health sciences students' perspectives on sexual health education, needs, and rights |
| Mejia, Angie | Just in Case: Lessons learned from a student-led health promotion program on a campus without an on campus health infrastructure |
| Mejia, Angie | Strategies to expand sexual health education and increase access to community-based sexual and reproductive health services for undergraduate students in the health sciences and STEM |
| Mejia, Angie | Just In Case: sexual health resources & accessibility in the making - A student-led mutual aid health promotion model |
| Mejia, Angie | Undergraduate women of color students and their perspectives on the influence of socio-cultural stressors on their emotional and socio-academic lives: A community-based participatory research (CBPR) study at a PWI |
| Mejia, Angie | Building cross-cultural community resilience through increased fresh-food access and citizenship |
| Mejia, Angie & Paul Sambanis (UIC- University of Illinois Chicago) | STOP project: student-driven approach utilizing innovative technology to end school violence in K-12 settings |
| Neil, Elizabeth | Retrospective review of effectiveness of lab monitoring for high grade glioma patients treated with temozolomide |
| Padrutt, Emily | Perinatal depressive symptoms and infant self-regulation: pathways through infant autonomic regulation and postnatal maternal sensitivity |
| Panayiota (Pani), Kendeou | Developmental Dyslexia (DD): Early identification and intervention |
| Phu Tran | A translational approach for establishing serum-based biomarkers of the neurobehavioral consequences of prenatal opioid exposure |
| Pierpont, Rene | Neurocognitive and neuroimaging markers of emerging cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy |
| Pierpont, Rene | Stakeholder perspectives on treatments for neurocognitive and behavioral concerns in RASopathies |
| Ramel, Sara | fMRI guided individualized TMS to manage drug craving in people with methamphetamine use disorder |
| Ramel, Sara | Improving growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm infants experiencing hyperglycemia (The CGM trial) |
| Randolph, Anita | Characterizing the impacts of structural inequalities in children with prenatal methamphetamine exposure using a novel database of multidimensional measures of structural determinants of health (MMSH) |
| Simacek, Jessica | Nutrition, growth, and neurodevelopment for infants with critical congenital heart disease |
| Simacek, Jessica | Ghana Telehealth Outreach and Technical Assistance Program (GHTOTAP) |
| Simacek, Jessica | Bridging barriers to intervention access for waitlisted children with ASD |
| Simacek, Jessica | Bridging barriers (Autism FIRST) |
| Simacek, Jessica | Intervening on social-communicative skills for children with developmental disabilities using Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions with coaching via telehealth |
| Simacek, Jessica and Wolff, Jason | Baby Sprout: Caregiver and infant coaching activities via telehealth |
| Streib, Chris | M Health-Fairview inpatient telestroke project (Rapid Eval Project with Center for Learning Health Sciences) |
| Streib, Chris | Utility of routine transfer for post-thrombolysis acute ischemic stroke patients |
| Symons, Frank | Early behavior and sensory experiences (E-BASE) Project |
| Tervo-Clemmens, Brenden | Determining the effect of six weeks of cannabis abstinence on fronto-striatal fMRI markers in adolescents with cannabis use disorder (ABSCAN) |
| Van de Winckel, Ann | A clinical trial of cognitive multisensory rehabilitation for sensory and motor recovery in adults with spinal cord injury |
| Van de Winckel, Ann | Remotely delivered cognitive multisensory rehabilitation for sensory and motor recovery after spinal cord injury |
| Walk, David | Clinic-based multicenter ALS natural history data collection study |
| Wang, Jing | Optimizing coordinated reset deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease |
| Wang, Sonya | Topiramate safety in neonates |
| Wang, Sonya | Multimodal Profiling of Response to Pediatric Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics |
| Whitley, Chester | An open-label, phase 1/2 study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of single-dose LY3884961 in infants with type 2 gaucher disease |
| Whitley, Chester | JR-141-GS31: A phase III study of JR-141 in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis II (STARLIGHT) |
| Widge, Alik | MRI for TMS targeting |
| Yuan, Shauna | Development of a music tele-therapy protocol for the treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's Dementia |
| Zelazo, Phil | Metacognition and executive function in late childhood |