BrainTest Mission
The goal of our site is to gain valuable information from a broad range of people that will help researchers to tackle the worlds most challenging problems in neuropsychiatry, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
While large collaborative efforts were made in genetics in order to discover the secrets of the human genome, there are still mysteries about the behaviors that are manifested in complex neuropsychiatric syndromes. We hope this site provides a model for behavioral data collection over the next several years, where large samples of data collected may provide us with new understanding of the cognitive behaviors in the general population, which will in turn allow us to better characterize how these behaviors go awry.
Our site is affiliated with Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics, within the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. We have obtained federal funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health to investigate cognitive behaviors in healthy people from a pilot project under the UCLA Center for Intervention Development and Applied Research: Translational Research to Enhance Cognitive Control (CIDAR-TRECC) project, headed by Dr. James McCracken. We also have funding from the Semel Institute and privately from NARSAD
BrainTest Investigators
Dr. Fred W. Sabb is an Assistant Professor in the department of Psychiatry at UCLA and Principal Investigator of the BrainTest project. Dr. Sabb has several grants to study cognition online, including a pilot grant from the CIDAR-TRECC group, a Semel Institute Young Scholar Award, and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Carrie E. Bearden is an Assistant Professor in the department of Psychiatry at UCLA. She serves as mentor for Dr. Sabb on his NARSAD award.
Dr. James McCracken is a Professor in the department of Psychiatry at UCLA. He is the director of the CIDAR-TRECC center.
Dr. Robert M. Bilder is a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA. He has spent over 20 years investigating behavioral deficits in schizophrenia, and is now the director of the Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics. Dr. Bilder is the co-director of the CIDAR-TRECC center and serves as a mentor for Dr. Sabb on his pilot grant.
