Bangladesh Early Adversity Neuroimaging (BEAN) Project
Summary: BEAN addresses the question of How does early exposure to adversity affect brain and subsequent cognitive development? in a cohort of infants and children growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As an urban setting, Dhaka can confer severe biological and psychosocial hazards, including infection, malnutrition, maternal stress. All demographic, psychometric, and neuroimaging data were collected in Bangladesh. This study is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

BabyBOLD Project
Summary: BabyBOLD examines the brain bases of reading across infancy, toddler-age, and preschool-age to differentiate developmental trajectories of children with and without familial risk for dyslexia. Structural, functional, and diffusion MRI techniques were collected for all participants. This study is supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Project in South Africa
Summary: This project investigates the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on brain substrates of reading using structural, functional, and diffusion MRI methods. All measures were collected in South Africa. This study is supported by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.