ADHD
Autism

Preschool Brain Imaging and Behaviour Project (PIP)

Type

Online interview

Age

3-5

Location

Anywhere

Time commitment

This research project involves (1) Online questionnaires about your child. These take around 2 hours to fill in, but they can be completed over multiple days and at times that suit you best. (2) A interview about your child’s behaviour and development. This takes approximately 3-4 hours, but can be split across multiple shorter calls if you prefer. (3) touchscreen games for your child. These games take between 30-60 minutes to play.

Rewards and expenses

For the remote part of the study, you will receive a £25 gift voucher as compensation for your time and energy.

About the study

The PIP project studies how preschool-aged children with and without neurodevelopmental conditions develop over time. In particular, we would like to understand how differences in children's brain development relates to their behaviour, learning, social and emotional development.

For this study we are currently recruiting:
• Children without neurodevelopmental conditions (between 2.5-4.5 years); and
• Children with autism (between 3-4.5 years), and/or
• Children with ADHD (between 4-5.5 years), and/or
• Children with developmental delay (between 3-4.5 years), and/or
• Children with epilepsy (between 3-4.5 years).

We hope that this research helps with earlier diagnosis and improved support for children with different neurodevelopmental conditions.

What will it involve?

The study will be completed in the comfort of your home, and includes:

1) Parent online questionnaires: To learn about your child’s behaviour, development, temperament, medical history, environment and sleep patterns.
2) Parent interview (via telephone or video call): To learn more about your child’s behaviour and development.
3) Touchscreen games for your child: These games were designed to measure children’s learning, attention, social and emotion processing.

Once the government’s COVID-19 restrictions lift and it is safe to meet in-person, we will ask if you and your child are interested to visit our research team at King’s College London in South London. The visit will include interactive games, structured play sessions and eye-tracking with your child. We will also measure your child’s brain activity using brain imaging techniques called EEG and MRI. Ideally, we would like to see your child at three time points, with around 1 year between each visit. However, you do not have to decide at this point whether you and your child would like to stay in the study in the future.

Researcher photo: Amy Goodwin
Meet the researcher

Amy Goodwin

Postdoctoral Research Associate

I am a postdoctoral researcher working on the PIP study at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience - King's College London.

Research conducted by: Kings College London

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