In this interview from the 2023 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (11–15 November; Washington DC, USA), Margot Wagner (left), a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego and the Salk Institute (both CA, USA), discusses herresults from a project using deep learning techniques to obtain biomarkers from MRIscans from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.