My Emotions and Me Over Time
This is an information page for families and schools interested in our study My Emotions and Me Over Time (MEMO).
This study is looks at how daily upsetting events contribute to the development of depression in neurodiverse young people over time. It forms part of our wider programme Regulating Emotions – Strengthening Adolescent Resilience (RE-STAR), which aims to reduce the risk of adolescent depression.
In MEMO, we are interested in the interplay between individual characteristics and upsetting experiences in young people with traits of ADHD and/or autism. We will be working with young people aged 11-16 years, their parents/carers to collect questionnaires at multiple times over one year to explore how upsetting experiences may lead to developing depression over time. Information from schools will also be collected.
We hope that MEMO will generate new information about what contributes to depression during adolescence, and that this can be used to identify targets for intervention to reduce depression risk in neurodivergent young people.
We are working with our Youth Researcher Panel to deliver the four stages detailed below:
Information for participants
For those interested in taking part in My Emotions and Me Over Time:
- MEMO Summer Newsletter
- Information for Schools
- Information for Parent/Carers
- Information for Young People
Watch this short video if you're due to complete your 6-month follow up.
Interested in taking part?
The MEMO team is currently inviting students from partnering schools to participate. Parents/carers of students at these schools should have received an email invitation to join the MEMO study. If you haven't received your invitation, please email re-starinfo@kcl.ac.uk with your child's school name and year group, using the subject line 'MEMO Study'.
Watch this short video about how to take part!
Meet the Team!
Our researchers:
Dr Kirsty Griffiths, KCL
Ms Umaya Prasad, KCL
Ms Varsihaa Sathiyathevan, KCL
Mr Alex Kernanec, KCL
Our My Emotions and Me Over Time project leads:
Professor Emily Simonoff, KCL
Professor Andrea Danese, KCL
The Principal Investigator for RE-STAR project is Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke and Dr Susie Chandler is our RE-STAR Project Manager. Dr Sylvan Baker is our Y-RP (Youth Researcher Panel) lead on RE-STAR, Doug Nightingale is our Administrator and Professor Daniel Stahl is our Statistician.
More about MEMO
To find out more about this study please email the team at re-starinfo@kcl.ac.uk.
Principal Investigator
Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Affiliations
Contact us
If you have any questions about My Emotions and Me Over Time or RE-STAR, please email re-starinfo@kcl.ac.uk