The Center for Neurobehavioral Development is a research center that houses over thirty studies about children's cognitive and neurobehavioral functioning. Our research projects are supported by major granting agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The mission of the Center for Neurobehavioral Development is to understand how brain development affects the way children think, learn and express emotions. Center research focuses on typically developing, atypically developing, and at-risk children. Our goal is to understand brain and behavioral development throughout childhood, from infancy through adolescence.The Center was constructed in 2000 with financial support from within the University of Minnesota and from external resources. Ms. Allison Coulter Sedgwick made a generous individual donation to the CNBD that afforded the purchase of an audio/visual system, which is integral to collecting data and training researchers. Ms. Sedgwick's family has a long history of involvement in the University. Her husband, Dr. Frederick Paul Sedgwick, attended the University of Minnesota Medical School, and in 1914, his father, Dr. Julius P. Sedgwick, then an associate professor of medicine at the University, introduced a course in child neurology called "Nervous Diseases of Children." The Minnesota Medical Foundation awarded two equipment grants to benefit the Center. These grants enabled us to install equipment in the autonomic and electrophysiological laboratories. Annual fiscal responsibilities are equally supported by the College of Education and Human Development and the Medical School, both of the University of Minnesota. The Center provides the administrative support, educational tools and physical space needed to support researchers from many different fields. University departments involved in the Center include Pediatrics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Educational Psychology, Psychiatry, Radiology, Kinesiology, the Medical School, the School of Nursing, and the Institute of Child Development. The Center houses eight subject examination rooms, a family waiting room with an adjoining playroom, and research suites that are used for scientific and administrative meetings. Please note that our Center is not a clinic. Although we Newsletter The CNBD Connection is our regular newsletter intended for interested members of the Center and the community. Annual Report If you are interested in learning more about our research, you may want to read our 2005-2006 Annual Report. "It is exciting to break down the usual barriers
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