Cognitive and behavioural difficulties in childhood and adolescence can set in motion life-long trajectories of educational underachievement and poor mental wellbeing. The MRC CBU hosts multiple programmes dedicated to understanding these trajectories.
To do this we develop new methods for imaging the developing brain, assessing cognitive skills like attention, and integrating these different types of data with innovative models. And critically, this research is made possible by unique large-scale cohorts, with rich behavioural, cognitive, brain and genetic measures.