This federal Project Grant award of $235,564 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports research to investigate the long-term health consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement. The project will leverage data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to: (1) extend the analysis of health outcomes from early...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $196,560 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research aimed at identifying neurosignatures predictive of problematic substance use in adolescents, investigating the links between specific types of childhood trauma and aberrant neurocircuits, and assessing the ability of adolescents to modulate these neurosignatures using...
This $1,892,487 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a short-term longitudinal experimental investigation into the effects of acute stress on memory performance between maltreated and non-maltreated adolescents aged 12-17. The study will be conducted by the University of California, Irvine and will involve randomly assigning participants...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support research on preventing child maltreatment. The $1,338,168 grant will fund a multi-site, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the individual and combined effects of two prevention programs: the Pregnant Moms' Empowerment Program (PMEP) delivered during pregnancy, and the Reminiscing and...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $542,304 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award supports research into the neural processes underlying young children's acquisition and retention of vocabulary, as well as the environmental factors that contribute to individual differences in vocabulary development. The research will leverage novel fMRI...
The federal Project Grant award R21HD115343 was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The $274,595 grant supports research examining the impact of early life adversity and childhood maltreatment on biological mechanisms of accelerated aging. The project leverages an existing longitudinal study to investigate how factors like health behaviors and mitochondrial function...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $524,780.00, was issued by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant aims to illuminate the etiology of recurrent child sexual abuse (CSA) and conceptualize novel prevention models within child welfare systems. The award recipient, Temple University, will leverage a mixed-methods research approach to create a comprehensive...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $149,804 in funding to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2028. The project aims to use functional neuroimaging and computational modeling techniques to investigate how language experience shapes the development of the brain's language network across childhood and adolescence....
This Project Grant award, valued at $225,306.00 and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (CFDA 93.865) program, supports a secondary data analysis study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The study aims to explore the underlying mechanisms by which maternal childhood maltreatment (CM) may be related to psychopathology among their adolescent offspring. Using a...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $672,498 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. This 5-year research project, titled "Estimating Impacts of Social Safety Net Generosity on Neglect and Physical Abuse in Young Children," aims to evaluate the effects of major social safety net programs (e.g., EITC, CTC, TANF, SNAP) on child maltreatment...