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Centre for Attention, Learning and Memory (CALM)

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Using cognitive theory and innovations in neuroscience to understand and improve mental wellbeing across the lifespan

Publications

 

CALM Publications

Here you can find published or pre-print research papers analysing the CALM sample. Note, these are just from members of the original research team, not by the wider research community who have subsequently used CALM data.

2025

Monaghan, A., Bethlehem, R. A., Akarca, D., Margulies, D., Team CALM, & Astle, D. E. (2024). Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds. eLife.

2024

Bettencourt, M. V., Mareva, S., CALM team, & Astle, D. E. (2024). Sleeping soundly? Testing the links between sleep quality and neurodevelopmental characteristics. Neurodiversity, 2, 27546330241255119.

Mareva, S., Astle, D., Baker, K., Gathercole, S., Holmes, J., Kievit, R., … & Lead Investigators. (2024). Mapping neurodevelopmental diversity in executive function. Cortex, 172, 204-221.

Astle, D. E., Bassett, D. S., & Viding, E. (2024). Understanding divergence: Placing developmental neuroscience in its dynamic context. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 157, 105539.

2023

Jones, J. S., Monaghan, A., Leyland-Craggs, A., Astle, D. E., & CALM Team. (2023). Testing the triple network model of psychopathology in a transdiagnostic neurodevelopmental cohort. NeuroImage: Clinical, 40, 103539.

Carozza, S., Akarca, D., & Astle, D. (2023). The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis: modelling equifinality, multifinality and adaptation to adversity. PNAS. 20 (42) e2307508120.

Zdorovtsova, N., Jones, J., Akarca, D., Benhamou, E., Astle, D. E., & CALM Team. (2023). Exploring neural heterogeneity in inattention and hyperactivity. Cortex, 164, 90-111.

Mareva, S., Akarca, D., CALM team, Astle, D., Baker, K., Gathercole, S., … & Holmes, J. (2023). Transdiagnostic profiles of behaviour and communication relate to academic and socioemotional functioning and neural white matter organisation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(2), 217-233.

2022

Bethlehem, R. A., Seidlitz, J., White, S. R., Vogel, J. W., Anderson, K. M., Adamson, C., … & Schaare, H. L. (2022). Brain charts for the human lifespan. Nature, 604(7906), 525-533.

Jones, J. S., Monaghan, A., Leyland-Craggs, A., Astle, D. E., & CALM Team. (2023). Testing the triple network model of psychopathology in a transdiagnostic neurodevelopmental cohort. NeuroImage: Clinical, 40, 103539.

Guy, J., Mareva, S., Franckel, G., & Holmes J. (2022). Cognition, Behaviour, and Mental Health in Struggling Learners: A Spotlight on Girls. JCPP Advances.

Williams, K., Holmes, J., PhD, Farina, F., Vedechkina, M., & Bennett, M. P. (2022). Inconsistencies between subjective reports of cognitive difficulties and performance on cognitive tests are associated with elevated internalising and externalising symptoms in children with learning-related problems. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 1-16.

Mareva, S., & Holmes, J. (2022). Cognitive and academic skills in two developmental cohorts of different ability level: A mutualistic network perspective. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(2), 209.

2021

Astle, D.E., Holmes, J., Kievit, R. and Gathercole, S.E. (2021), Annual Research Review: The transdiagnostic revolution in neurodevelopmental disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Holmes, J., Mareva, S., Bennett, M. P., Black, M. J., & Guy, J. (2021). Higher-order dimensions of psychopathology in a neurodevelopmental transdiagnostic sample. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(8), 909-922.

Jones, J. S., Astle, D. E., & CALM Team. (2021). A transdiagnostic data-driven study of children’s behaviour and the functional connectome. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52, 101027.

Akarca, D., Vertes, P., Bullmore, E., & Astle, D. (2021). A generative network model of neurodevelopmental diversity in structural brain organization. Nature Communications 12, 4216 (2021). 

Mareva, S., & Holmes, J. (2022). Cognitive and academic skills in two developmental cohorts of different ability level: A mutualistic network perspective. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(2), 209. 

Jones, J. S., Astle, D., & CALM Team. (2021). Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children. Developmental Science, e13209.

Simpson-Kent, I. L., Fried, E. I., Akarca, D., Mareva, S., Bullmore, E. T., Kievit, R. A., & CALM Team. (2021). Bridging brain and cognition: A multilayer network analysis of brain structural covariance and general intelligence in a developmental sample of struggling learners. Journal of Intelligence, 9(2), 32.

2020

Fuhrmann, D., Simpson-Kent, I. L., Bathelt, J., The CALM Team, & Kievit, R. A. (2020). A hierarchical watershed model of fluid intelligence in childhood and adolescence. Cerebral Cortex, 30(1), 339-352.

Brkić, D., Ng-Cordell, E., O’Brien, S., Martin, J., Scerif, G., Astle, D., & Baker, K. (2020). Brkić, D., Ng-Cordell, E., O’Brien, S., Martin, J., Scerif, G., Astle, D., & Baker, K. (2022). FarmApp: a new assessment of cognitive control and memory for children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties. Child Neuropsychology, 28(8), 1097-1115.

Holmes, J., Guy, J., Kievit, R. A., Bryant, A., Mareva, S., Gathercole, S. E., & CALM Team. (2021). Cognitive dimensions of learning in children with problems in attention, learning, and memory. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(7), 1454. 

Bryant, A., Guy, J., The CALM Team & Holmes J. (2020). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire Predicts Concurrent Mental Health Difficulties in a Transdiagnostic Sample of Struggling Learners. Frontiers in Psychology. Developmental Psychology, 11, 3125-313.

O’Connor, D. B., Aggleton, J. P., Chakrabarti, B., Cooper, C. L., Creswell, C., Dunsmuir, S., … & Jones, M. V. (2020). Research priorities for the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science. British Journal of Psychology, e12468.

Siugzdaite, R., Bathelt, J., Holmes, J., & Astle, D. E. (2020). Transdiagnostic brain mapping in developmental disorders. Current Biology, 30(7), 1245-1257. 

Simpson-Kent, I. L., Fuhrmann, D., Bathelt, J., Achterberg, J., Borgeest, G. S., & Kievit, R. A. (2020). Neurocognitive reorganization between crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence and white matter microstructure in two age-heterogeneous developmental cohorts. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 41, 100743.

Rennie, J. P., Zhang, M., Hawkins, E., Bathelt, J., & Astle, D. E. (2020). Mapping differential responses to cognitive training using machine learning. Developmental Science, 23(4), e12868.

Astle, D. E., & Fletcher-Watson, S. (2020). Beyond the core-deficit hypothesis in developmental disorders. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(5), 431-437.

2019

Mareva, S., & Holmes, J. (2019). Transdiagnostic associations across communication, cognitive, and behavioural problems in a developmentally at-risk population: a network approach. BMC Pediatrics, 19(1), 452.

Astle, D. E., Bathelt, J., Team, C., & Holmes, J. (2019). Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school. Developmental Science, 22(1), e12747.

Bathelt, J., Johnson, A., Zhang, M., & Astle, D. E. (2019). The cingulum as a marker of individual differences in neurocognitive development. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-16.

Bathelt, J., Scerif, G., Nobre, A. C., & Astle, D. E. (2019). Whole-brain white matter organization, intelligence, and educational attainment. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 15, 38-47.

Holmes, J., Bryant, A., Gathercole, S. E., & CALM Team. (2019). Protocol for a transdiagnostic study of children with problems of attention, learning and memory (CALM). BMC Pediatrics, 19(1), 10.

2018

Holmes, J., Bathelt, J., & Astle, D.E. (2018). Look beyond the label, Times Education Supplement, 5324, 30-35.

Bathelt, J., Gathercole, S. E., Butterfield, S., CALM team, & Astle, D. E. (2018). Children’s academic attainment is linked to the global organization of the white matter connectome. Developmental Science, 21(5), e12662.

Bathelt, J., Holmes, J., Astle, D. E., Gathercole, S., Manly, T., & Kievit, R. (2018). Data-Driven Subtyping of Executive Function–Related Behavioral Problems in Children. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 57(4), 252–262. 

This paper was featured in a recent editorial of JAACAP which described the study design as providing a “significant advance in psychiatric research”, you can read the full editorial here.

Bathelt, J., Gathercole, S. E., Johnson, A., & Astle, D. E. (2018). Differences in brain morphology and working memory capacity across childhood. Developmental Science, 21(3), e12579.

2016

Hawkins, E., Gathercole, S., Astle, D., Holmes, J., & CALM Team. (2016). Language problems and ADHD symptoms: how specific are the links?. Brain Sciences, 6(4), 50.

Gathercole, S. E., Woolgar, F., Kievit, R. A., Astle, D., Manly, T., Holmes, J., & CALM Team. (2016). How common are WM deficits in children with difficulties in reading and mathematics?. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5(4), 384-394.

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