A study led by Dylan Gee, PhD, associate professor of psychology and psychiatry and in the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine and Yale University, has been named a 2024 Leading Research Achievement by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF).
The study, “Network Connectivity Patterns in High-Risk Pre-Adolescents Correctly Predicted Depression Symptom Onset 2 Years Later,” was published in 2023 in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Gee and her research team used functional brain imaging data to discover biomarkers that have the potential to predict early-onset depression in pre-adolescent youths with a family history of depression.
Sixteen mental health studies were identified on this year’s leading research achievements list. The list includes important studies of suicide, childhood anxiety, depression, eating disorders, cocaine addiction, and other aspects of brain and behavior illness.
BBRF awards research grants to develop improved treatments, cures, and methods of prevention for mental illness. These illnesses include addiction, ADHD, anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, and schizophrenia, as well as research on suicide prevention.