Thursday, Jun 26: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1213
Roundtable
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Room: M3 (Mezzanine Level)
The ABCD Study is a landmark investigation, marking the largest study of neurodevelopment and adolescent health to date, following over 11,000 diverse youth across 21 sites of the United States. The ABCD Study is reaching an exciting and pivotal time period in data collection. As of January 2025, annual data releases have transitioned to the National Brain Development Cohorts data sharing platform. Data releases will be complemented by novel tools for data curation, querying, and analytic resources offered through the Data Analysis and Exploration Platform (DEAP). This roundtable provides an opportunity for ABCD users to provide suggestions and feedback on tools they may want to see in future developments of DEAP. The consortium and its funding partners are also looking forward to the next phase of ABCD Study data collection (“ABCD 2.0”), which hopes to follow the initial cohort beyond adolescence and into their third decade of life. This is a critical and valuable opportunity to capture important outcomes related to physical and mental well-being, and social and environmental determinants of health in young adulthood. The National Brain Development Cohorts data sharing platform and parts of ABCD’s study design are synergistic with the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study, a 27-site US-wide study aiming to follow 7500 infants into childhood. Thus, discussions stemming from this roundtable surrounding the ABCD Study may have implications for the broader neuroimaging community hoping to work with the HBCD Study dataset.
1) Provide feedback on the ABCD Study’s new data sharing platform and available analytical tools
2) Contribute to an active dialogue between ABCD investigators and the user community to help shape the next phase of the ABCD Study (“ABCD 2.0”)
Our target audience includes researchers at all career stages working broadly in the area of adolescent development using structural and/or functional neuroimaging as well as individuals interested in methods developments and statistical analysis approaches for large-scale data. We anticipate that the majority of our audience members will be current users of the ABCD Study dataset, but we also invite the perspectives of researchers who express interest in using the dataset in the future as ABCD participants reach early adulthood.
Presentations
Presenters will serve as panelists for a roundtable discussion, and thus will not be giving an individual lecture. Dr. Hugh Garavan is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Vermont. He is an Associate Director at ABCD’s Coordinating Center, and a Principal Investigator at the University of Vermont ABCD site. He is also Co-Chair of several Workgroups in ABCD, including the Retention, Professional Development, and task fMRI Imaging Workgroups. Dr. Garavan will provide a valuable perspective for shaping the next phase of ABCD through his active involvement in study design implementation and neuroimaging analysis in ABCD since its inception.
Presenter
Hugh Garavan, University of Vermont College of Medicine
Psychiatry
Burlington, VT
United States
Presenters will serve as panelists for a roundtable discussion, and thus will not be giving an individual lecture. Dr. Priscila Dib Goncalves is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, where she holds a career development “K” award from the National Institutes of Health in the US, using ABCD Study data. Dr. Goncalves began using the ABCD Study data as a trainee in the Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques (START) scholar program, which helps propel the careers of talented trainees from historically underrepresented and underserved backgrounds, and prepares trainees to access, analyze and disseminate data from the ABCD Study. Dr. Goncalves will provide an important early-career perspective on using ABCD Study data to launch an independent research career and how the next phase of ABCD can continue to improve upon the career development of trainees across disciplines and backgrounds.
Presenters will serve as panelists for a roundtable discussion, and thus will not be giving an individual lecture. Dr. Deanna Barch is Chair and Professor of Psychological and Brain Science and a Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a Principal Investigator at the Washington University in St. Louis ABCD site. She is also co-chair of the Mental Health Assessment Workgroup, as well as the newly minted Sociodemographics Workgroup. Dr. Barch will provide a valuable perspective for shaping the next phase of ABCD through her active involvement in ABCD Study leadership since its inception, and her vast contributions to the field of psychiatric neuroimaging, neurodevelopment, and social determinants of health.
Presenter
Deanna Barch, PhD, Washington University
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Saint Louis, MO
United States
Presenters will serve as panelists for a roundtable discussion, and thus will not be giving an individual lecture. Dr. Pravesh Parekh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo and a consultant to the ABCD Data Analysis, Informatics and Resource Center (DAIRC). He has actively worked on the development and dissemination of tools designed to handle the complex data structure of the ABCD Study, such as the Fast and Efficient Mixed Effects Algorithm (FEMA). Dr. Parekh is also involved in research studies integrating across ABCD Study data and other large-scale datasets, such as the UK Biobank and the Norwegian Mother/Father Child Cohort (MoBa). Dr. Parekh’s expertise will benefit audience members who are interested in integrating new scientific tools offered by ABCD’s DAIRC for analysis of large-scale imaging, behavioral and/or genetic data.