Center for Pediatric Brain Health

The Center for Pediatric Brain Health is an NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Omaha, Nebraska with a focus on pediatric neuroscience, developmental neuroimaging, and brain health. Our primary objectives are to advance developmental neuroscience, expand pediatric neuroimaging research, promote brain health across the region and the world, and broadly enhance the research infrastructure at BTNRH.

In order to achieve these goals, the Center for Pediatric Brain Health supports research projects, pilot projects, postdoctoral training positions, a summer scholars program, a monthly Seminar Series, a monthly Career Development Series, skills workshops, and various outreach programs.

Our Studies

Brain Networks and Their Association with Psychiatric Traits During Adolescence

The aim of this study is to combine brain functional imaging data with cognitive and behavioral information to provide an integrative framework that quantifies the dynamic reconfiguration of the brain connectome across cognitive states from adolescence to adulthood and improve our understanding of the link between the brain functional connectome and psychopathology, in adolescents.

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Characterizing the Impact of Auditory Experience on Cognitive, Language, and Neural Outcomes in Children

The goals of this study are to understand how a child's brain works during attention, memory, and language tasks, and whether hearing loss affects how these processes occur in the brain.

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Cognitive, Immunological, and Neurophysiological Consequences of Home Radon Exposure in Children and Adolescents

The overarching goal of the current study is to better understand the impact of home radon exposure on structural and functional brain development in children and adolescents.

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