CHILD-BRIGHT Mega Team:
Treatments to Improve Emotional and Behavioural Self-Regulation

We're currently enrolling children with ADHD for our study

For more details, or to enroll, contact
Taha Arshad
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Children with disorders that impact neurodevelopment often have difficulties with executive functions and regulating emotions. Cognitive-based video game training has been shown to improve outcomes, however, this training has been expensive, has required professional supervision, and has been investigated only within a narrow group of children. The Mega Team study will test the effects of a highly engaging, take-home video game-based intervention designed to improve executive functioning in children with various brain-based developmental disorders.

The team provided a project update at the 2022 CHILD-BRIGHT Virtual Symposium. View it here.

Research theme:
BRIGHT Supports: Projects to integrate mental health into care

Age range:
6–12 years

Start date:
May 2017

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Jennifer Crosbie, SickKids

2020-21 Project Update

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2019-20 Project Update

On May 26, 2021, the CHILD-BRIGHT Mega Team provided a project update at the 2021 CHILD-BRIGHT Virtual Symposium. View it here.

Our team has been busy this year! In addition to continuing to recruit children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in 2019 we began recruiting participants with autism spectrum disorder or congenital heart defects. We have enrolled 110 participants total thus far. We are primarily recruiting at SickKids; this past year, we also began recruiting at Holland Bloorview and at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, which will allow two of our co-investigators, Evdokia Anagnostou and Stephanie Ameis, to refer new potential participants to our study and increase our reach.

Two teenage partners with lived experience bring an important youth perspective to our work. They provide us with vital youth input relating to engagement in our work and the usability of the intervention we are investigating. Thanks to their feedback, we have explored new research ideas.

In the fall, we also hosted a webinar alongside two of our youth patient-partners: Austin and Noam. This was a highly valuable experience for all of us. Over the summer of 2019, we also welcomed a summer student, Angela Dou, who engaged fully in the CHILD-BRIGHT summer training content and was a great addition to our team.