Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center (BHCRC) Launches Specialized Website Focused on Key Children’s Mental Health Research Initiatives

Posted Monday, April 30, 2012

Through a new website, the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center (BHCRC) is making it easy to learn about the latest children’s mental health research being conducted by the center’s experts. The site, www.bradleyhasbroresearch.org, focuses on the significant research being conducted by the 20 researchers who are focusing on areas such as autism genetics, bipolar disorder, sleep, anxiety, and early childhood mental health and intervention.

“The researchers and experts at the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center possess a wealth of knowledge when it comes to pioneering research in the realm of children’s mental health,” said Gregory K. Fritz, M.D., director of the BHCRC. “With this new website we are providing a centralized repository of information about our researchers, clinical trials, expert video interviews, news and patient stories. We want to make it easy for people to find the information they need about our research and our team.”

The Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center (BHCRC) is a collaborative group of leading researchers from Bradley Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital, studying a variety of child development and children’s mental health disorders, including sleep patterns, infant development, the neurobiology of bipolar disorder, genetics of autism, adolescent obesity, OCD, HIV prevention and the psychophysiology of asthma. In 2011, BHCRC investigators had grants totaling more than $9 million. Currently there are more than 60 active research projects being conducted out of the BHCRC.

Key research currently being conducted at the BHCRC includes the work of:

• Larry Brown, MD, who is exploring AIDS prevention and safer sex programs for adolescents with psychiatric disorders
• Mary Carskadon, PhD, whose research is focused on circadian rhythms in adolescents as a function of puberty and their role in daytime sleepiness patterns
• Daniel Dickstein MD, who leads the Pedi-MIND research program, which uses brain imaging techniques, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and behavioral measures to identify biological markers of psychiatric illness, including bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. Such markers could help physicians make more accurate diagnoses.

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