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CDBB supports basic and translational research and training that addresses the typical neurocognitive, psychological, behavioral, physical, and social-emotional development and health of infants, children, and adolescents. The branch explores how individual differences in development, as well as family and other social relationships, are affected by genetic and environmental influences including emerging societal trends (e.g., increased reliance on technology and digital media), as well as public health emergencies. The branch also supports basic research to identify the mechanisms by which atypical development and related health outcomes in children and adolescents, including those with learning disabilities, arise from or are differentially affected by genetic and environmental risk/protective factors. The branch uses these findings to inform translational prevention, intervention, and health promotion studies designed to enhance their lives.
Pediatric Primary Care: Supports research on how primary care providers and primary care systems can promote children’s health, development, and well-being, with a focus on research to bolster the evidence base for pediatric clinical preventive services.
Neurodevelopment, Cognition, and Behavior: Supports research on the developmental pathways leading to typical and atypical cognitive and brain development and developmental mechanisms underlying cognition and behavior at the molecular, genetic, cellular, and brain structural and functional levels
Early Learning and School Readiness: Supports research to specify the experiences that prepare children for a successful transition to school entry and later achievement and long-term follow-up to quantify the long-term effect of early intervention programs
NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (Historical/For Reference Only): Completed study that analyzed how different non-maternal child care arrangements related to measurements of the children's health, behavior, school performance, and other health indicators
Language Development and Multilingualism: Supports research on the full spectrum of typical language development including bilingualism/multilingualism, with a particular focus on infancy through adolescence
Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) Initiative: An NIH-wide initiative that supports activities to better understand early language development and the learning trajectories and needs of late-talking children.
Mathematics and Science Cognition, Reasoning, and Learning: Development and Disorders: Supports research on mathematical thinking and problem solving, as well as on scientific reasoning, learning, and discovery, across all ages from infancy into early adulthood
Literacy and Related Learning Disabilities: Supports research to increase understanding of both normal and atypical development of reading and writing. This includes development of prevention, remediation, and instructional approaches to enhance these abilities
Learning Disabilities Innovation Hubs: Research consortium that aims to address nascent and understudied research topics related to the causes, symptoms, and treatments for individuals diagnosed with or at-risk for these learning disabilities
Learning Disabilities Research Centers Consortium: Research consortium that aims to develop knowledge on the causes, origins, and developmental courses of learning disabilities
National Reading Panel (Historical/For Reference Only): Branch-led panel from 2000 that evaluated existing research and evidence to identify the best ways of teaching children to read; includes National Reading Panel Publications
Social and Emotional Development/Child and Family Processes: Supports research on social, emotional, and personality development from infancy through adolescence, including social relationships and contexts, social cognition and social and emotional skills, emotion regulation, parenting and family dynamics, parent-child relationships, attachment, co-regulation, and human-animal interaction. Research may examine developmental trajectories, risk and resilience, and links between these processes and behavioral, psychosocial, and health outcomes
Technology and Digital Media: Supports research on the impact of exposure to and use of technology and digital media (TDM) on development, from infancy through adolescence
Databrary : Open data library of developmental science video, audio, and related metadata
TalkBank: CHILDES: A corpus established to serve as a central repository for data of first language acquisition.
LDbase: An NIH-funded behavioral project-oriented data repository containing decades of knowledge from educational and developmental sciences on individuals across the full range of abilities.
Brett Miller, Ph.D., Acting Branch Chief Main Research Areas: Literacy and related learning disabilities (e.g. dyslexia/reading disability); mathematics and science learning and related learning disabilities
Layla Esposito,Ph.D., Program Officer Main Research Areas: Social and emotional development and child and family processes, human-animal interaction
Tracy King, M.D. Medical Officer Main Research Areas: General pediatrics/pediatric primary care; pediatric clinical preventive services; developmental and behavioral pediatrics; transition from pediatric to adult health care
Parisa Parsafar, Ph.D.,Program Officer Main Research Areas: Development of social and affective processes, risk and resilience, early learning and school readiness. small business programs
Virginia C. Salo, Ph.D., Program Officer Main Research Areas: Language development; technology and digital media; neurodevelopment
Highlights
CDBB leads NICHD support of research to address the short- and long-term effects of technology and digital media (TDM) in infants, children, and adolescents. Visit the TDM in Childhood and Adolescence page to learn more about this effort and access information and recordings from previous workshops and a fact sheet on digital media and children’s health.
Maternal Mental Wellness and Women's Health. Learn about NICHD research efforts related to maternal mental health, including depression and anxiety during and up to 1 year after pregnancy.
The Executive Summary (PDF 437 KB) of the "Media Exposure and Early Child Development" workshop is now available.
Branch-funded research was featured in the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council on June 7, 2018.
Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice: CDBB co-sponsored this stakeholder workshop at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. A report, toolkit, and public service announcement-style video are available.
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