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Investigating the Impacts of Early Life Experience on the Brain & Behaviour
Led by University of Manchester · Updated on 2025-02-12
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
247 weeks
Total Duration
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What this Trial Is About
The aim of this study is to learn more about how early life experience influences the brain, behaviour, and the immune system later in life. This will help improve understanding of why certain early life experiences (e.g., adoption, stress and parental separation) can cause difficulties for some people when they are adults. The long-term goal of this research is to develop tools that could identify young people who are vulnerable to developing future problems, this will ensure people get the help that they need at the right time for them. This study will use psychological assessment, online games, brain imaging and blood sampling to help improve our understanding of how and why early life experience can influence mental health, cognition, brain development and the immune system later in life.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Investigating the Impacts of Early Life Experience on the Brain & Behaviour
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Age 18-24
- Reside in Greater Manchester
- Not enrolled on a university degree course and do not hold a university degree qualification
- Lived with one or both birth parents throughout childhood
- Able to travel to the University of Manchester
- Able to understand the study information and participate in the assessment procedures independently or with reading support
- Able to read text on a computer screen (using glasses or contact lenses if needed)
- Meets one or more of the following: not currently in education, employment or training or unemployed; receives government benefits such as housing benefits, universal credit, personal independent payment (PIP), disability benefit, job seekers allowance; currently struggling due to mental health problems or neurodiversity (e.g., depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, eating disorder)
You will not qualify if you...
- Looked after by local authority (foster, kinship care, or residential children's home) or adopted during childhood
- Any experience of childhood trauma including neglect, physical/verbal abuse, sexual abuse, or exposure to domestic violence
- Family required social services involvement due to child protection concerns
- Experiencing symptoms of or diagnosed with PTSD, borderline personality disorder, or emotionally unstable personality disorder
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
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Faculty of Biology Medicine & Health, University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom, M13 9SS
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
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Model
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Primary Purpose
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Number of Arms
2
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