Development
Dynamics
Disorders
Data Science
4D
Anxiety is increasingly common in young people. We want to learn more about how children’s brains, minds, and immune systems interact as they grow - and how factors such as genetics, environment, and early-life infections influence mental development.
When people with lived experience and researchers work together, research is more likely to be useful and accessible. We are keen to make sure that we understand the preferences and priorities of people with experience of anxiety.
We have ongoing opportunities for people with relevant experience to join focus groups.
If you have experience of anxiety or are a parent of a child with anxiety and would like to support our research, please complete the application form below.
If you have any questions, email Dr Dani Redhead anxiomics@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
About the Anxiomics Team
The team are investigating the extent to which genetics shape development across multiple levels of explanation – brain, mind and immunity – by testing how anxiety-related genetic variants impact behavioural and cognitive development in childhood and adolescence, how the genetics of anxiety and the genetics of brain structure and function overlap in adults and children, and how molecular data and information on infections can help interrogate the shared genetics between infection and anxiety and their combined impact on the development of anxiety. A key component of our research is the modular enrichment of C-GULL, a landmark new cohort based in Liverpool.
Key Collaborators:
Professor Mel Gladstone (University of Liverpool)
Professor Ed Bullmore (King's College London)
Dr Shivaram Avula (Alder Hey Children's Hospital)
Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge)
Dr Mary-Ellen Lynall (University of Cambridge)
Sarah Rae (Cambridge)
Contact us:
If you have any questions or queries about the ANXIOMICS study, please email anxiomics@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.