C-Veda project

Subject : Science and technology

Section: Health

Concept :

The journey from childhood to adulthood is uneven: some mental attributes surface faster than others, some are more pronounced in girls, and poverty and trauma have an outsized influence on cognitive development, says one of the largest studies of its kind, spanning nearly 9,000 children and young adults from India.

About C-Veda Project

The Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (c-VEDA) is jointly funded by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the Newton Grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom.
The Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (cVEDA), based in India, aims to examine environmental influences on genomic variations, neurodevelopmental trajectories and vulnerability to psychopathology, with a focus on externalizing disorders.
The cVEDA has established the largest neurodevelopmental database in India, comparable to global datasets, with detailed environmental characterization.
This should permit identification of environmental and genetic vulnerabilities to psychopathology within a developmental framework.
Neuroimaging and neuropsychological data from this study are already yielding insights on brain growth and maturation patterns.

Methodology:

10,000 individuals between 6 and 23 years of age, of all genders, representing five geographically, ethnically, and socio-culturally distinct regions in India, and exposures to variations in early life adversity have been assessed using age-appropriate instruments to capture socio-demographic information, temperament, environmental exposures, parenting, psychiatric morbidity, and neuropsychological functioning.
All data and biological samples are maintained in a databank and biobank, respectively.