National Consortium on Alcohol and Neuro-Development in Adolescence

The purpose of the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) is to determine the effects of problematic alcohol use on the developing adolescent brain and examine brain characteristics that predict alcohol use disorder. At five sites, the consortium will collect a core battery, including structural and functional brain scans and cognitive testing, and conduct specialty projects on psychological regulation, sleep and alcohol discontinuation. The examination of alcohol consequences will focus on structural and functional maturation of brain areas that actively develop during adolescence, are key to psychological regulation and reward response, and may be vulnerable to toxic alcohol effects.

Principal Investigators

Adolf Pfefferbaum, SRI International
Kilian M. Pohl, SRI International

Collaborators

Fiona Baker, SRI International
Sandra Brown, UC San Diego
Duncan Clark, University of Pittsburg
Ian Colrain, SRI International
Michael DeBellis, Duke University
Bonnie Nagel, Oregon Health and Science University
Susan Tapert, UC San Diego

Funding

Access NCANDA Data

To gain access to publicly available data please complete following steps:

Create a user name on Synapse
Fill out the following form and send it with your synapse user name to Antonio Noronha (NIH/NIAAA)
NIH will contact applicant about acceptance/rejectance of application.

Once accepted, the data can be accessed via the NCANDA Repository at Synapse.

If you have any questions please contact ncanda-support@sri.com .