ABCD news & new papers

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New journal articles (44)

• Comparing Objectively Estimated Sleep Duration in the ABCD Study With Published Norms Shalom Noach Jaffe, Eleanor L. McGlinchey. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. (2026-10-12)

• A machine learning approach to predicting high-risk irritability trajectories across the transition to adolescence Leslie S. Jordan, Annika J. Quam, Alyssa J. Parker, Jillian Lee Wiggins, Lea Rose Dougherty. Development and Psychopathology. (2026-10-12)

• ADHD polygenic risk converges on reproducible neuroimaging signatures predicting core behavioral phenotypes Xueke Shan, Ming Xu, Dongmei Zhi, Shile Qi, Rongtao Jiang, Zening Fu, et al. Nature Mental Health. (2026-10-09)

• Links of fitbit-derived sleep architecture and fragmentation with ADHD symptoms and externalizing behaviors in adolescents Charlotte Clapham, I‐Tzu Hung, Nicole Tacugue, Brion S. Maher, Vadim M. Zipunnikov, Joe Kossowsky, et al. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. (2026-10-09)

• Does later chronotype cause poorer adolescent mental health? An adolescent brain cognitive development study Rachel Visontay, Hollie R. Byrne, Emma Krogh Devine, Mirim Shin, Emiliana Tonini, Gabrielle Hindmarsh, et al. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. (2026-10-08)

• Early-Age alcohol initiation increases the risk of mental disorders in children and adolescents: a longitudinal cohort study Maojia Ran, Zhujun Wang, Meijiang Jin, Hang Zhang, Yuanmei Tao, Hanmei Xu, et al. Translational Psychiatry. (2026-10-08)

• Longitudinal associations between screen time activities and working memory neural signatures in adolescents: Sex differences and contextual moderation Sahithi Arekatla, Anthony Barrows, Leigh‐Anne Cioffredi, Matthew D. Albaugh, Nicholas A. Allgaier, McKay Allred, et al. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. (2026-10-06)

• Adolescent development of decision making processes in n-back task performance and links to pubertal timing and tempo. Frogner ER, Pedersen ML, Westlye LT. Acta psychologica. (2026-10-02)

• A Bayesian deep learning framework for brain dynamic functional connectivity linked with cognition Xinyuan Tian, Yuanshuang Guo, Shengxian Ding, Yifei Zhang, Denise Esserman, Yize Zhao. Biometrics. (2026-10-02)

• Development of Dual Systems Constructs During Childhood: Sexual Abuse Variety as a Predictor of Differential Development. Wojciechowski T, Waldspurger E. Journal of child sexual abuse. (2026-10-01)

• Physical Activity and Adolescent Brain Structure, Mental Health, and Academic Outcomes. Li Q, Paluch A, Rakesh D. JAMA network open. (2026-10-01)

• Premenarche risk factors for future dysmenorrhoea: a prospective cohort study. Lenert ME, Smith T, Hidalgo-Lopez E, Portengen CM, Harte SE, Beltz AM, Schrepf A, Kaplan CM. The Lancet. Child & adolescent health. (2026-10-01)

• Covariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity and not comorbidity Ashley L. Watts, Adon F.G. Rosen, Ashley Lauren Greene, Kevin Michael King, Francisco A. C. Meyer, Timothy J. Trull, et al. Nature Mental Health. (2026-10-01)

• Neurocognitive development and its relationship to brain structure and function: findings from the ABCD study Marie T. Banich, Harry R. Smolker, Deanna M. Barch, Monica M. Luciana. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. (2026-10-01)

• Early-life adversity, parent-reported pain complaints, and multimodal MRI measures in youth: evidence from the ABCD Study Yann Quidé, Teck Heng Benson Lim, Sylvia Maria Gustin. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. (2026-10-01)

• Impulsivity during Adolescent Development: Insights from a Decade of ABCD Study Longitudinal Analyses Nioud Mulugeta Gebru, Priscila Dib Gonçalves, Faith Adams, Nicita Anand, Laura N. Haygood, Micah E. Johnson, et al. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. (2026-10-01)

• The adolescent reward system: Longitudinal brain-behavior dynamics and pandemic effects. Kiss O, Baker FC, Harkness A, Gombert-Labedens M, Tapert SF, Marshall AT, Sowell E, Shao LY, Xu B, Fan CC, Thompson WK, Chaarani B, Greene D, Müller-Oehring EM. Development and psychopathology. (2026-09-30)

• The effects of sports activity on cognition in nine- and ten-year-old children. Wallace AL, Forseth B, Sullivan RM, Wade NE, Stinson EA, Lisdahl KM. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS. (2026-09-30)

• Longitudinal Relations Among Adolescents’ Cognitive Control, Social Media Use, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms. Tang A, Leung C, Prasad R, Busso C, Warren SL. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. (2026-09-30)

• Multimodal neuroimaging signature of sleep problems captures preadolescent mental health trajectories Yulin Wang, Masoud Tahmasian, Sarah Genon, Fateme Samea, Zhihui He, Xinyi Liu, et al. BMC Medicine. (2026-09-30)

• Smartphone acquisition as an inflection point in early adolescence digital exposome: relevance to mental health Ziv Bren, Kate T. Tran, Ronald Clinton, Elina Visoki, Lani A. Tran, Nadine Michel, et al. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (2026-09-30)

• Sleep and participation in extracurricular activities moderate associations between low SES and brain structure and functional connectivity. Tinch J, Thomson P, Rakesh D. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. (2026-09-28)

• Decomposing response inhibition: A POMDP model. Wang W, Kaufmann T, Dayan P. PLoS computational biology. (2026-09-25)

• Smartphone Ownership and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Early Adolescence Jason M. Nagata, Jennifer H. Wong, Jonanne Talebloo, Kyrra Engle, Kyle T. Ganson, Alexander M. Testa, et al. JAMA Network Open. (2026-09-25)

• Hippocampal volume and persistent distressing psychotic-like experiences across early adolescence: the moderating role of physical activity Benson S. Ku, Ella J. Arrant, Katherine S. F. Damme, Elaine F. Walker. Schizophrenia Research. (2026-09-23)

• Changes in Susceptibility to Cannabis Use From Late Childhood to Early Adolescence. Tang Z, Dai HD. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. (2026-09-22)

• Connectome-based substrates of emotional N-back performance in the adolescent brain cognitive development study. Wong-Si-Kwie SM, Kohler R, Riley S, Rodriguez L, Babaeianjelodar M, Cheng A, Horien C, Greene AS, Constable RT, Yip SW, D Lichenstein S. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. (2026-09-21)

• Does exposure to potentially traumatic events moderate the longitudinal relationship between mental health and problematic media use? Moderated multiple mediation analyses within the ABCD study. Tutus D, Fegert JM, Haag AC. European journal of psychotraumatology. (2026-09-21)

• Puberty timing and cognitive functioning: insights from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study and Mendelian randomization. Dinkelbach L, Serio B, Valk S, Weisner FE, Bläschke LM, Peters T, Hinney A, Schmidt B, Hirtz R. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines. (2026-09-21)

• A systematic review of digital and wearable sensor data in the ABCD study: Insights, methods, and emerging opportunities Jordan D. Alexander, Sawyer Mills, Kelsey Sumpter, Calen J. Smith, Biplabendu Das, Ruby Fan, et al. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. (2026-09-21)

• 93. FROM EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY TO INTERNALIZING SYMPTOMS AND SUICIDE RISK: CROSS-SPECIES EVIDENCE FOR HIPPOCAMPAL GENE NETWORK VULNERABILITY Magdalini Ioannou, Lauren B. Malave, Rushell S. Dixon, Rory Thompson, Irina Pokhvisneva, Sachin Patel, et al. European Neuropsychopharmacology. (2026-09-21)

• INTERGENERATIONAL PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS: LIABILITY AND EARLY-LIFE EXPOSURES ACROSS MATERNAL, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT OUTCOMES Natasia S. Courchesne‐Krak, Loes M. Olde Loohuis, L. Taylor Davis. European Neuropsychopharmacology. (2026-09-21)

• CROSS-COHORT EVALUATION OF GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHILDHOOD PSYCHOPATHOLOGY USING MACHINE LEARNING Swathi Hassan Gangaraju, Christel Maria Middeldorp, Enda Byrne. European Neuropsychopharmacology. (2026-09-21)

• ASSOCIATIONS OF POLYGENIC LIABILITY FOR EXTERNALIZING AND SUBSTANCE USE WITH PRENATAL AND ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USE Natasia S. Courchesne‐Krak, John J. Meredith, Aidan Moore, Sarah J. Brislin, Emma Johnson, Jared V. Balbona, et al. European Neuropsychopharmacology. (2026-09-21)

• DIVERGENT CAUSAL EFFECTS OF BRAIN NEUROIMAGING PHENOTYPES ON FOUR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS WITH STRONG GENETIC OVERLAP Shane O’Connell, Niamh Mullins. European Neuropsychopharmacology. (2026-09-21)

• Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with altered brain connectivity: neural correlates of cognitive and mental health variability in offspring Zening Fu, Kent E. Hutchison, Anika Guha, Vince D. Calhoun. Translational Psychiatry. (2026-09-19)

• Discrimination and early substance use among racial-ethnically minoritized youth: Self-reports and hair samples. Wang Y, Zhang Y, Yan J, Huang Q, Jelsma E, Zhao Z, Zhao J, Cham H, Alegría M, Yip T. Drug and alcohol dependence. (2026-09-18)

• Predictors of Caregivers’ Cannabis-Specific Rules in a Predominantly Cannabis-Naïve Sample of Youth in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study Nolan E. Ramer, Stephanie K. Jones, Angela Moreland, Lindsay M. Squeglia, Rachel L. Tomko. Cannabis. (2026-09-18)

• Cognitive Flexibility, Inhibitory Control, and Trajectories of Irritability from Late Childhood Through Early Adolescence. Shaughnessy S, Evans SC. Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53. (2026-09-17)

• Baseline Psychopathology and Developmental Trajectories of ADHD Symptoms from Late Childhood Through Adolescence Rapson Gomez, Daniel Zarate, Kaiden Hein, Vasileios Stavropoulos. Adolescents. (2026-09-17)

• Effects of adverse childhood experiences on behavior in adolescence: Insights from brain imaging and genetic risk. Liu H, Tang J, Zhao Z, Zhou Y, Ding H, Liu N, Ji Y, Wang P, Wu X, Liu F, Qin W, Calhoun VD, Xu J, Jiang Y. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. (2026-09-16)

• Factors Protecting Against Co-Occurring Pain, Psychological, and Somatic Symptom Trajectories in Adolescence. Senger-Carpenter T, Herrenkohl TI, Khadr L, Wang Y, Seng JS, Zhao L, Voepel-Lewis T. The Clinical journal of pain. (2026-09-16)

• Parent-Child Discrepancy of Delinquency Reporting in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development - Social Development (ABCD-SD) Substudy Nagham Abouzeid, Shailey Curtis, Elizabeth I. Johnson. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. (2026-09-16)

• Developmental milestones and resting-state functional connectivity: Shared and distinct associations with neurodevelopmental traits. Ganai UJ, Bhushan B. Psychological medicine. (2026-09-15)

New preprints (14)

• Inflections in adolescent cortical maturation signal psychopathology risk Clauss JA, Zhi D, Perdomo SA, Dear R, Kunitoki K, Hughes DE, Blum AT, Kane KA, Elyounssi S, Cooper B, Laurent E, Bazer O, Vinke L, O’Dor S, Flook EA, Linnman C, Kritzer-Cheren MD, Holt DJ, Lee PH, et al. bioRxiv. (2026-10-11)

• Sex-Specific Associations Between Pubertal Stage and Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Early Adolescence: Evidence from the ABCD Study Li M, Xie H, Qin Q, Siniatchkin M, Lin BY, Hou J. Research Square. (2026-10-09)

• Dual ecological-cultural pathways of sociocultural environment and resting state functional connectivity among Hispanic adolescents in the ABCD Study Laird AR, Hampson CL, Lembo M, Bottenhorn KL, Sukumaran K, Cardenas-Iniguez C, Thompson E, Adise S, Sanchez M, Gonzalez R, Herting MM, Meca A. bioRxiv. (2026-10-08)

• Sense and Sensibility: Sensible Quality Control and Data Decision-Making in Passive Sensing Data for Adolescent Substance Use Risk Prediction Hong A, Diaz JL, Kennedy TM, Wang FL. medRxiv. (2026-10-08)

• Bayesian Estimation of Continuous Brain Connectivity with Log-Gaussian Cox Processes Jaehoan Kim, William Consagra, Debdeep Pati, Zhengwu Zhang. arXiv (Cornell University). (2026-10-08)

• Corpus Callosum Macrostructure and Microstructure in Relation to Interhemispheric Cortical Thickness Symmetry Assari S. Preprints.org. (2026-10-07)

• Longitudinal trajectories of ADHD symptoms: relationships to early-childhood predictors and later outcomes Rounds E, Kozlowski M, McCormack S, Ryabinin P, Nousen E, Tipsord J, Dieckmann NF, Karalunas SL, Herting MM, Faraone SV, Nikolas M, Nigg JT, Mooney MA. medRxiv. (2026-10-07)

• Longitudinal Central Adiposity Accumulation is Associated with Cortical Alteration and Impaired Cognitive Function in Adolescents Lingxuan Zhang, Bowen Qiu, Zhifan Chen, Xinyi Xu, Ruoke Zhao, Yiwei Chen, et al. eLife. (2026-09-29)

• MAC-Net: A Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework for Modeling Cognitive Function From Task-Based fMRI Md. Tanvir Rahman, Nabil Anan Orka, Asaduzzaman Khan, Mohammad Ali Moni. arXiv (Cornell University). (2026-09-27)

• Temporal Graph Learning of Wearable Actigraphy and Sleep Traces for Modelling Adolescent Crystallized Intelligence Md. Tanvir Rahman, Nabil Anan Orka, Asaduzzaman Khan, Mohammad Ali Moni. arXiv (Cornell University). (2026-09-27)

• Explainable Deep Learning of Resting-State Functional Connectomes Reveals Network Biomarkers of Adolescent Intelligence Md. Tanvir Rahman, Nabil Anan Orka, Asaduzzaman Khan, Mohammad Ali Moni. arXiv (Cornell University). (2026-09-27)

• Concordance between the fast and efficient mixed-effects algorithm (FEMA) and conventional mixed-effects modeling for whole-brain connectivity in longitudinal chronic pain McLain N, Kaplan C, Harte S, Schrepf A. bioRxiv. (2026-09-25)

• Additive Nonparametric Regression with Spatial and Network Objects Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, Pritam Dey, Krishnendu Chandra, Aaron Scheffler, Bani Mallick. arXiv (Cornell University). (2026-09-22)

• STAMPED in Practice: Reproducing a Scientific Result Using ABCD Neuroimaging Data John Anthony Lee, Austin Macdonald, Cody Baker, Yaroslav O. Halchenko. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). (2026-09-18)

On Bluesky (3)

• @jaacapjournals.bsky.social (2026-09-16): Environmental factors such as school involvement and time of the year influenced changes in sleep and activity. #ABCDStudy 3/3 View post

• @jaacapjournals.bsky.social (2026-09-16): The authors recommend screening preadolescents for advanced puberty and applying targeted suicide screening for those youth showing advanced puberty in primary care and mental health settings. #ABCDstudy #suicide 3/3 View post

• @jasonmnagata.bsky.social (2026-09-14): #adolescenthealth #publichealth #digitalwellness #digitalhealth #pediatrics #pediatrichealth #pediatricresearch #ABCDstudy #UCSF #videogames #gaming #neuroimaging #braindevelopment #brainhealth View post

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