SPACE: Socioemotional Prediction in Adverse Contexts with EEG

Project SPACE examines child development in different global contexts of adversity. SPACE aims to test when and how early EEG measures may predict later child socioemotional development related to school-readiness. Using existing large developmental datasets, we seek to build and compare predictive biomarker profiles of both risk and resilience across different contexts of adversity. Specifically, we focus on: 1) psychosocial deprivation that occurs with institutional care through data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project in Bucharest, Romania, and 2) urban poverty in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where adverse conditions may include frequent inflammation and chronic illness, malnutrition, polution, and psychosocial stress. The ultimate goal for Project SPACE is to develop EEG profiles that may be used in randomized control trials in low-middle income countries to evaluate intervention efficacy in contexts of early adversity.