Research

The Child Study Center serves, in part, as a center for basic neurodevelopment research on the earliest neurodevelopment and behavioral problems troubling children. The Center is actively growing in many areas from basic research in the genetic and neurobiological basis of childhood psychiatric disorders to training clinicians around the world in state of the art mental health service delivery.

Basic Research

Neurogenetics

Investigators focus on the genetic basis for neuropsychiatric disorders from gene discovery to using gene knock-outs in model species to test promising drug treatments.

Developmental Neurobiology

The developmental neurobiology pod includes investigations of normative neural de-velopment, neural cell differentiation, neurochemistry, and neurogenetics both in typical and a-typical...

Clinical & Translational Research

Clinical Innovations

The Clinical Innovations pod focuses on clinical trials of child mental health interventions, evaluating the accumulating evidence around specific interventions, and disseminating current...

Computation Models and Data Analysis

The computational models and data analysis pod applies principals of statistical or deep learning to complex datasets from neuroimaging, genetics, and electrophysiology.

Neuroimaging

Investigators are bringing innovative and advanced image analysis techniques to study fetal brain development, changes in neural function with parenting, resting state brain activity in...

Autism and Neurodevelopment

Investigators focus on how the social brain develops and how infants and children learn about the social world, especially in developmental disorders such as autism.

Social and Affective Neurodevelopment of Autism Program

The Yale Social and Affective Neurodevelopment of Autism Program (Yale SANA Program) is focused on early social and affective development of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and...