Science & Innovation

The Child Mind Institute's Center for the Developing Brain has assembled a unique research team, drawing upon a diverse array of backgrounds spanning psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, electrical engineering, computer science and mathematics. Led by principal investigator Michael Milham, MD, PhD, the Center for the Developing Brain team is actively taking on the challenge of exploring brain development in healthy and clinical populations, with the goal of identifying the signatures of mental illness and markers of treatment response. In this regard, the Center for the Developing Brain is rapidly assembling a research program to phenotype and image Child Mind Institute patients before and after treatment, with the expressed goal of making de-identified forms of all datasets collected openly available to Child Mind Institute Endeavor Scientists—as well as the larger scientific community—on a prospective, prepublication basis. Our goal is that this demonstration of an open science philosophy will serve as a model for other institutions around the world.

Accelerating the pace of scientific discovery will take more than data generation alone. Marked innovation is required in the analytic tools and neuroscientific framework employed by scientists—this is especially true for efforts to unravel the mysteries of the computationally complex web of connections in the human brain, increasingly referred to as the 'Human Connectome'. In order to address this need, the Center for the Developing Brain has established the Computation, Analysis and Pipelining (CAP) team. The CAP team is focused on the advancement of analytic methods and neuroscientific understanding through the refinement, application and implementation of statistical, machine learning, and network theory approaches to the study of human brain structure and function in clinical and non-clinical populations. Consistent with our philosophy of open science, the CAP team is committed to openly sharing all analytic codes developed with the broader scientific community.

Our Team

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  Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD

  Director, Center for the Developing Brain; Senior Research Scientist; Pediatric Psychopharmacologist
  Child Mind Institute

  Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD, is an internationally recognized neuroscience researcher, a gifted and caring ...

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  Cameron Craddock, PhD

  Director of Imaging
  Child Mind Institute

  Cameron Craddock, PhD, is an internationally recognized neuroimaging researcher who brings extensive knowledge of MRI ...

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  Michelle Kaplan, LMSW

  Clinical Evaluator
  Child Mind Institute

  Michelle S. Kaplan, LMSW, is a graduate of the Silver School of Social Work at ...

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  Ranjit Khanuja, MCS

  Research Programmer
  Child Mind Institute

  Ranjit Khanuja holds a master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on natural ...

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  Qinyang Li

  Data Analyst
  Child Mind Institute

  Qinyang Li is a graduate student in Neuroscience and Behavior at University of Georgia in ...

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  Chao-Gan Yan

  Research Scientist
  Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research

  Volunteer Research Scientist
  Child Mind Institute

  Chao-Gan Yan received his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience ...

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  Zhen Yang, PhD

  Post Doctoral Fellow
  Child Mind Institute

  Dr. Zhen Yang holds a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from University of New Mexico, a ...

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