The BRIGHT Project
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Longitudinal study of brain development from 0-24mths in Gambian & UK. Led by @ucl,@BirkbeckBabylab, @Cambridge_uni, @mrcunitgambia. Funded by @gatesfoundation
London, England
Joined September 2015
📢Congratulations @cbulgarelli01 and team for this new paper in @elife: Growth in early infancy drives optimal brain functional connectivity which predicts cognitive flexibility in later childhood https://t.co/czOmmofOMB
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We’re happy to announce fNIRS UK 2025 is taking place in Cambridge on the 18th & 19th of September 2025, so please save the date! Submission deadline: 31st May 2025, more information coming soon on the abstract and workshop submission on the website:
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📢We are excited to share this call for a Special Issue in Infancy on Nurturing Care & Neurocognitive Development in the First 1000 Days. We particularly welcome submissions from authors from the Global South🌍🧠Please see link for info& distribute widely: https://t.co/FTSlCyRnLW
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📢 New paper alert! Check out this brilliant work, led by Laura Katus, which describes the implementation of the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) in The Gambia, and our findings on infant newborn behaviours in this context 👉 https://t.co/1QY71z88OB
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BRIGHT is gaining global attention 🌍🧠 Our work has been featured in the @UNESCO report on the Insights from the Science of Learning for Education, to highlight the important role of neurodevelopment in infancy on educational outcomes. Have a look here 👉
I am honoured to have been invited to write about @bright_project for the @UNESCO report on the Insights from the Science of Learning for Education. I describe how our findings point to infancy as a crucial time for harnessing future educational outcomes: https://t.co/27uySw5O2M
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Very excited to see our BRIGHT PROTOCOL PAPER finally published!
Reflecting ten years of 1000s of hours of work across our team, our BRIGHT Protocol paper fromThe Gambia and UK is published! @gatesfoundation #GlobalHealth @mrcunitgambia @Cambridge_Uni @CamBabylab @BirkbeckBabylab @UCLmedphys @LSHTM @KCLWomensHealth
https://t.co/IUdUnW1F73
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The UCL Festival of Engineering is officially underway 🎉 Thank you to all the @ucl staff, contributors and guests who joined us for our launch event yesterday - we can't wait to see you again later in the week! Find out more about the Festival ➡️ https://t.co/riaGdaBGYP
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Our PI for the @bright_project and @PIPKIN_Cam Sarah Lloyd-Fox and Adebunmi Oyekola from @UniIbadan gave a fantastic talk at #ICIS2024: The @AfriBCD_Network: a step towards better representation of developmental science in Africa! @foxtexel @AdebunmiOyekola @Cambridge_Uni
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Are you at #ICIS2024? Come to our symposium “Early development of the functional organization of the brain: Insights from diverse neuroimaging methods”. I’ll present #fNIRS works exploring FC development @BirkbeckBabylab and in The Gambia @bright_project
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If you're at #ICIS2024 come have a look at our poster today July 10 10.30-12, presented by @foxtexel and @AdebunmiOyekola - we look forward to seeing you there!
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If you're heading to @fNIRS2024 have a look at this great workshop with our very own BRIGHT postdoc @HanBnrd
You can now register for our workshop "Hands-on machine learning with fNIRS" at the @fNIRS2024 Conference! 📅 11th & 12th September (registration closes 7th July) 📍 Birmingham, UK More info & registration ➡️ https://t.co/OmbYYyh1hd
#fNIRS #MachineLearning #Python
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🚨Have a look at this brilliant talk in our latest instalment of the AfriBCD Seminar Series. Hear Dr Jean Ikanga talk about "A Call for Shifting from the Western to African Neuropsychology: The African Neuropsychology Battery" https://t.co/5FNk7jiplQ
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🚨Hot off the press! 📢 Have a look at our latest paper, led by our brilliant former student @EmmaJMacrae_ , looking at the development and early attentional predictors of cognitive control at 18-24 months of age in the BRIGHT UK sample. https://t.co/0UiL8BIXev
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Sign up to hear one of the new BRIGHT post docs @HanBnrd talk about using machine learning for fNIRS! 🧠
Join us on our next webinar with Johann Benerradi from the University of Cambridge, where he discusses the challenges of using machine learning for fNIRS data analysis and introduces the BenchNIRS Python framework as a solution. Register now! #fNIRS #data analisys
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‼️Job alert ‼️ Interested in joining the BRIGHT project? We are looking for a research assistant to be based in our Cambridge hub. You'll be supporting processing and analyses of data collected in The Gambia and UK. We are an amazing team, so come join us!
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Have a look at this important review by one of our BRIGHT PIs @drsophiemoore exploring sex differences in growth and neurocognitive development in infancy and early childhood https://t.co/BM0MW7LQ5F
cambridge.org
Sex differences in growth and neurocognitive development in infancy and early childhood - Volume 83 Issue 4
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New Year, new results to share! Check out this brilliant work by @cbulgarelli01 examining functional connectivity and its relationship with physical growth and cognitive development in our BRIGHT cohort in The Gambia!
So excited to share some results from the @bright_project looking at functional connectivity development in Gambian infants and its relationship with early growth and later cognitive outcome. With the one and only @adameggebrecht
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New BRIGHT paper exploring early language interactions in context of infants’ caregiving environment. In the Gambia, a medium number of caregivers was associated with highest turn-taking rates, which in turn predicted child vocalisations a few months down the line 👶🏽💬
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During the pandemic I started the 'Diversity in Developmental Science' network with two other colleagues. Things went back to normal, work got busier & this fell off the radar. I'm looking to get this up & running again. Any #BAME dev science researchers interested in this?
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HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥🔥 - Latest work from the @bright_project showing that iron status *under* 6 months of age is related to cognitive development up to pre-school age.
journals.plos.org
Introduction Iron deficiency is among the leading risk factors for poor cognitive development. However, interventions targeting iron deficiency have had mixed results on cognitive outcomes. This may...
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