Active and seeking participants
Suicidal Thoughts and Actions Research in Kids (STARK)
This study is examining what young children know about the concept of suicide, along with risk factors for experiencing suicidality early in life. We are looking for 4-7 year old children who have experienced suicidal thoughts and behaviors, along with 4-7 year old children who have not experienced suicidal thoughts and behaviors. For more information, please visit our website at https://sites.wustl.edu/stark/ or contact us.
Contact: 314-286-2705 and STARKstudy@wustl.edu. Ask for Christina.
Neural Correlates of Excitability and Irritability (NeuCORE)
The Neural Correlates of Excitability and Irritability Study (NeuCORE) is designed to help understand how children’s emotional intensity relates to brain activations while experiencing and regulating emotions. From this study, we hope to learn more about how children with big emotions experience their emotional response and how they regulate this response. By learning more about the brain activations of children with big emotions, we hope to create better interventions to help children and families manage their emotions and behaviors.
This study is recruiting new participants ages 7-10 years old.
Contact Elena at 314-273-5782 or luelena@wustl.edu.
Neurodevelopment of Overcontrol and Anxiety (NOA)
The purpose of this study is designed to help understand how the development of a characteristic of “overcontrol” is related to social relationships, moods, behaviors, and anxiety.
We are looking for children who are shy, obedient, perfectionistic, and sometimes self-critical and rigid in their ways of thinking and behaving. If your child exhibits any of these traits and is 4-7 years old, you and your child may be eligible to participate in this research study. We are also looking for 4-7 year old children who don’t show these characteristics and are healthy. If this is the case, you and your child might also be eligible.
Contact: 314-273-5560 and bgoing@wustl.edu. Ask for Berklea.
Active but not seeking participants
Preschool Depression Study
The School-Age Children’s Moods and Emotions study is a continuation of the Preschool Children’s Moods and Emotions study, also known as the Preschool Depression Study (PDS). This longitudinal study seeks to help doctors learn to differentiate children with normal mood, from children experiencing more serious emotional trouble that warrants professional help.
Mood, Emotion, and Stress in Youth
The Mood, Emotion, and Stress in Youth Study is designed to help understand the relationships between moods, thoughts, behaviors, and social relationships in children and adolescents, including the factors that contribute to self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. From this study, we hope to learn more about how children and adolescents think about emotion, moods and stress in order to create better interventions that help youth manage their emotions and behaviors.
eLABE Study
The EEDP and WUNDER Labs recruited mothers enrolled in the March of Dimes 1000 Women Cohort study to participate in the eLABE study. Through eLABE, we hope to better understand how experiences during pregnancy and early life affect mothers’, caregivers’ and children’s well-being. We have been following families since 2017 and are currently bringing families in around their child’s 6th birthday.
If you have questions about the eLABE study, please contact Mary Haman (314)-273-1045, m.haman@wustl.edu .