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  • The HBCD study is a big research project that will look at how kids' brains and behaviors develop from before they are born until they are younger kids.
  • It will include over 7000 families from 27 different places and will check many areas like language, memory, and social skills.
  • The study aims to understand how things like health and family background affect children's growth, and it will use different ways to measure kids' progress, both from tests and from parents' reports.

Article Abstract

The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, a multi-site prospective longitudinal cohort study, will examine human brain, cognitive, behavioral, social, and emotional development beginning prenatally and planned through early childhood. The study plans enrolling over 7000 families across 27 sites. This manuscript presents the measures from the Neurocognition and Language Workgroup. Constructs were selected for their importance in normative development, evidence for altered trajectories associated with environmental influences, and predictive validity for child outcomes. Evaluation of measures considered psychometric properties, brevity, and developmental and cultural appropriateness. Both performance measures and caregiver report were used wherever possible. A balance of norm-referenced global measures of development (e.g., Bayley Scales of Infant Development-4) and more specific laboratory measures (e.g., deferred imitation) are included in the HBCD study battery. Domains of assessment include sensory processing, visual-spatial reasoning, expressive and receptive language, executive function, memory, numeracy, adaptive behavior, and neuromotor. Strategies for staff training and quality control procedures, as well as anticipated measures to be added as the cohort ages, are reviewed. The HBCD study presents a unique opportunity to examine early brain and neurodevelopment in young children through a lens that accounts for prenatal exposures, health and socio-economic disparities.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11489150PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101461DOI Listing

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