Healthy Brain Network (HBN)
The HBN is an ongoing initiative focused on creating and sharing a biobank of data from 10,000 New York area participants aged 5–21. The HBN Biobank houses multidisciplinary phenotypic data and multimodal brain imaging data. Recruitment for the study is ongoing since 2017, through advertisements that seek the participation of families who have concerns about one or more psychiatric symptoms in their child. Primary causes for exclusion of participation centre on the presence of acute safety concerns, cognitive or behavioural impairments that could interfere with participation or medical concerns that are expected to interfere with brain-related findings.
Study design
Cohort - research programme, Biobank
Number of participants at first data collection
4,136 (participants, as of 2024)
664 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
5 - 21 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2017
Primary Institutions
Child Mind Institute
Links
fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/cmi_healthy_brain_network/index.html
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Brooklyn Nets
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
Gray Foundation
Howard & Irene Levine Family Foundation
Individual private funders
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Audio or visual recordings (e.g. of child behaviour, facial expressions)
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- Voice capture (e.g. timbre, emotional fluctuations)
- Wearable devices
- None
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- None
Engagement
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