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https://neurobiobank.nih.gov/

National resource for investigators utilizing human post-mortem brain tissue and related biospecimens for their research to understand conditions of the nervous system. Federated network of brain and tissue repositories in the United States that collects, evaluates, stores, and makes available to researchers, brain and other tissues in a way that is consistent with the highest ethical and research standards. The NeuroBioBank ensures protection of the privacy and wishes of donors. Provides information to the public about the need for tissue donation and how to register as a donor.

Proper citation: NIH NeuroBioBank (RRID:SCR_003131) Copy   

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http://datasharing.net

The U.S. National Institutes of Health Final NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data (NIH-OD-03-032) is now in effect. It specifies that all high-direct-cost NIH grant applications include plans for sharing of research data. To support and encourage collegial, enabling, and rewarding data sharing for neuroscience and beyond, the Laboratory of Neuroinformatics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University has established this site. A source of, and portal to, tools and proposals supporting the informed exchange of neuroscience data.

Proper citation: Datasharing.net (RRID:SCR_003312) Copy   

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http://www.pediatricmri.nih.gov/

Data sets of clinical / behavioral and image data are available for download by qualified researchers from a seven year, multi-site, longitudinal study using magnetic resonance technologies to study brain maturation in healthy, typically-developing infants, children, and adolescents and to correlate brain development with cognitive and behavioral development. The information obtained in this study is expected to provide essential data for understanding the course of normal brain development as a basis for understanding atypical brain development associated with a variety of developmental, neurological, and neuropsychiatric disorders affecting children and adults. This study enrolled over 500 children, ranging from infancy to young adulthood. The goal was to study each participant at least three times over the course of the project at one of six Pediatric Centers across the United States. Brain MR and clinical/behavioral data have been compiled and analyzed at a Data Coordinating Center and Clinical Coordinating Center. Additionally, MR spectroscopy and DTI data are being analyzed. The study was organized around two objectives corresponding to two age ranges at the time of enrollment, each with its own protocols. * Objective 1 enrolled children ages 4 years, 6 months through 18 years (total N = 433). This sample was recruited across the six Pediatric Study Centers using community based sampling to reflect the demographics of the United States in terms of income, race, and ethnicity. The subjects were studied with both imaging and clinical/behavioral measures at two year intervals for three time points. * Objective 2 enrolled newborns, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers from birth through 4 years, 5 months, who were studied three or more times at two Pediatric Study Centers at intervals ranging from three months for the youngest subjects to one year as the children approach the Objective 1 age range. Both imaging and clinical/behavioral measures were collected at each time point. Participant recruitment used community based sampling that included hospital venues (e.g., maternity wards and nurseries, satellite physician offices, and well-child clinics), community organizations (e.g., day-care centers, schools, and churches), and siblings of children participating in other research at the Pediatric Study Centers. At timepoint 1, of those enrolled, 114 children had T1 scans that passed quality control checks. Staged data release plan: The first data release included structural MR images and clinical/behavioral data from the first assessments, Visit 1, for Objective 1. A second data release included structural MRI and clinical/behavioral data from the second visit for Objective 1. A third data release included structural MRI data for both Objective 1 and 2 and all time points, as well as preliminary spectroscopy data. A fourth data release added cortical thickness, gyrification and cortical surface data. Yet to be released are longitudinally registered anatomic MRI data and diffusion tensor data. A collaborative effort among the participating centers and NIH resulted in age-appropriate MR protocols and clinical/behavioral batteries of instruments. A summary of this protocol is available as a Protocol release document. Details of the project, such as study design, rationale, recruitment, instrument battery, MRI acquisition details, and quality controls can be found in the study protocol. Also available are the MRI procedure manual and Clinical/Behavioral procedure manuals for Objective 1 and Objective 2.

Proper citation: NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development (RRID:SCR_003394) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/

Software repository for comparing structural (MRI) and functional neuroimaging (fMRI, PET, EEG, MEG) software tools and resources. NITRC collects and points to standardized information about structural or functional neuroimaging tool or resource.

Proper citation: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (NITRC) (RRID:SCR_003430) Copy   

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http://neurogeometry.net/

Open source software for automated and manual tracing of neurites from light microscopy stacks of images. NCTracer 2.0 is developed for the Windows 7, 64-bit operating system and requires a minimum of 4 GB of RAM. This version does not run on 32-bit computers, Mac or Linux OS.

Proper citation: Neural Circuit Tracer (RRID:SCR_000116) Copy   

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http://caintegrator-info.nci.nih.gov/rembrandt

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on April 28,2023. REMBRANDT is a data repository containing diverse types of molecular research and clinical trials data related to brain cancers, including gliomas, along with a wide variety of web-based analysis tools that readily facilitate the understanding of critical correlations among the different data types. REMBRANDT aims to be the access portal for a national molecular, genetic, and clinical database of several thousand primary brain tumors that is fully open and accessible to all investigators (including intramural and extramural researchers), as well as the public at-large. The main focus is to molecularly characterize a large number of adult and pediatric primary brain tumors and to correlate those data with extensive retrospective and prospective clinical data. Specific data types hosted here are gene expression profiles, real time PCR assays, CGH and SNP array information, sequencing data, tissue array results and images, proteomic profiles, and patients'''' response to various treatments. Clinical trials'''' information and protocols are also accessible. The data can be downloaded as raw files containing all the information gathered through the primary experiments or can be mined using the informatics support provided. This comprehensive brain tumor data portal will allow for easy ad hoc querying across multiple domains, thus allowing physician-scientists to make the right decisions during patient treatments., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Repository of molecular brain neoplasia data (RRID:SCR_004704) Copy   

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http://narc.wustl.edu/narc/default.aspx

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. The Neurologic AIDS Research Consortium (NARC) is supported by the National Institutes of Health to design and carry out clinical trials to improve the therapy for HIV induced neurologic disease, and neurologic conditions associated with the AIDS virus. This consortium was established in 1993 when the NARC grant submitted by David B. Clifford, M.D. of Washington University School of Medicine was funded by the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to establish the consortium. Since that time the grant has supported studies of the natural history of neurologic performance in advanced AIDS, treatment of HIV associated peripheral neuropathy, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, and cytomegalovirus.

Proper citation: Neurologic AIDS Research Consortium (RRID:SCR_005019) Copy   

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http://krasnow1.gmu.edu/cn3/hippocampus3d/

Data files for a high resolution three dimensional (3D) structure of the rat hippocampus reconstructed from histological sections. The data files (supplementary data for Ropireddy et al., Neurosci., 2012 Mar 15;205:91-111) are being shared on the Windows Live cloud space provided by Microsoft. Downloadable data files include the Nissl histological images, the hippocampus layer tracings that can be visualized alone or superimposed to the corresponding Nissl images, the voxel database coordinates, and the surface rendering VRML files. * Hippocampus Nissl Images: The high resolution histological Nissl images obtained at 16 micrometer inter-slice distance for the Long-Evans rat hippocampus can be downloaded or directly viewed in a browser. This dataset consists of 230 jpeg images that cover the hippocampus from rostral to caudal poles. This image dataset is uploaded in seven parts as rar files. * Hippocampus Layer Tracings: The seven hippocampus layers ''ML, ''GC'', ''HILUS'' in DG and ''LM'', ''RAD'', ''PC'', ''OR'' in CA were segmented (traced) using the Reconstruct tool which can be downloaded from Synapse web. This tool outputs all the tracings for each image in XML format. The XML tracing files for all these seven layers for each of the above Nissl images are zipped into one file and can be downloaded. * Hippocampus VoxelDB: The 3D hippocampus reconstructed is volumetrically transformed into 16 micrometer sized voxels for all the seven layers. Each voxel is reported according to multiple coordinate systems, namely in Cartesian, along the natural hippocampal dimensions, and in reference to the canonical brain planes. The voxel database file is created in ascii format. The single voxel database file was split into three rar archive files. Please note that the three rar archive files should be downloaded and decompressed in a single directory in order to obtain the single voxel data file (Hippocampus-VoxelDB.txt). * 3D Surface Renderings: This is a rar archive file with a single VRML file containing the surface rendering of DG and CA layers. This VRML file can be opened and visualized in any VRML viewer, e.g. the open source software view3dscene. * 3D Hippocampus Movie: This movie contains visualization of the 3D surface renderings of CA (blue) and DG (red) inner and outer boundaries; neuronal embeddings of DG granule and CA pyramidal dendritic arbors; potential synapses between CA3b interneuron axon and pyramidal dendrite, and between CA2 pyramidal axon and CA pyramidal dendrites.

Proper citation: Hippocampus 3D Model (RRID:SCR_005083) Copy   

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http://www.fz-juelich.de/ime/spm_anatomy_toolbox

A MATLAB toolbox which uses three dimensional probabilistic cytoarchitechtonic maps to correlate microscopic, anatomic and functional data of the cerebral cortex. Correlating the activation foci identified in functional imaging studies of the human brain with structural (e.g., cytoarchitectonic) information on the activated areas is a major methodological challenge for neuroscience research. We here present a new approach to make use of three-dimensional probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps, as obtained from the analysis of human post-mortem brains, for correlating microscopical, anatomical and functional imaging data of the cerebral cortex. We introduce a new, MATLAB based toolbox for the SPM2 software package which enables the integration of probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and results of functional imaging studies. The toolbox includes the functionality for the construction of summary maps combining probability of several cortical areas by finding the most probable assignment of each voxel to one of these areas. Its main feature is to provide several measures defining the degree of correspondence between architectonic areas and functional foci. The software, together with the presently available probability maps, is available as open source software to the neuroimaging community. This new toolbox provides an easy-to-use tool for the integrated analysis of functional and anatomical data in a common reference space.

Proper citation: SPM Anatomy Toolbox (RRID:SCR_013273) Copy   

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http://rgd.mcw.edu/rgdCuration/?module=portal&func=show&name=nuro

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. Portal that provides researchers with easy access to data on rat genes, QTLs, strain models, biological processes and pathways related to neurological diseases. This resource also includes dynamic data analysis tools.

Proper citation: Rat Genome Database: Neurological Disease Portal (RRID:SCR_008685) Copy   

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http://www.bri.ucla.edu/research/resources

Brain bank resources which include postmortem human frozen brain tissue and matched cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood available for scientists to search for etiopathogeneses of human disease. The National Neurological Research Specimen Bank and the Multiple Sclerosis Human Neurospecimen Bank maintains a collection of quick frozen and formalin fixed postmortem human brain tissue and frozen cerebrospinal fluid from patients with neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, depressive disorder/suicide, and epilepsy, among others. Diagnoses are documented by clinical medical records and gross/microscopic neuropathology. The Neuropathology Laboratory at the UCLA Medical Center maintains a bank of frozen, formalin and paraformaldehyde-fixed and paraffin-embedded postmortem human brain tissues and frozen cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients who die with Alzheimer's disease and other dementing and degenerative illnesses, as well as control materials removed in a similar fashion from patients who are neurologically normal.

Proper citation: Brain Research Institute Biobank Resources (RRID:SCR_008756) Copy   

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http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/dickson_lab/

A brain bank and laboratory focused on memory and motor disorders. Brains are sent to the laboratory for diagnosis and research for the State of Florida Alzheimer Disease Initiative and for the Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. As part of this brain banking function, fixed and frozen brain samples are obtained at autopsy and sent to the laboratory for diagnostic evaluation and for various types of research studies. The major types of analyses performed on the brain samples include neuro-histology, immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, electron microscopy and image analysis, as well as immunoassays. The latter are based upon Western blotting and enzyme linked immunoassays. The laboratory has a specific interest in the interface between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease, as well as in non-Alzheimer's degenerative disorders such as Lewy body dementia, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and frontotemporal dementia. The primary focus of research on aging is neuropathologic characterization of brains of individuals who had been prospectively and longitudinally evaluated during life. These studies aim to determine differences in a range of biologic parameters in brains of people with normal cognitive, mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Their focus on Parkinson's disease is to identify preclinical Parkinson's disease in order to develop means for early diagnosis.

Proper citation: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville: Neuropathology and Microscopy (RRID:SCR_008753) Copy   

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http://trans.nih.gov/bmap/index.htm

The Brain Molecular Anatomy Project is a trans-NIH project aimed at understanding gene expression and function in the nervous system. BMAP has two major scientific goals: # Gene discovery: to catalog of all the genes expressed in the nervous system, under both normal and abnormal conditions. # Gene expression analysis: to monitor gene expression patterns in the nervous system as a function of cell type, anatomical location, developmental stage, and physiological state, and thus gain insight into gene function. In pursuit of these goals, BMAP has launched several initiatives to provide resources and funding opportunities for the scientific community. These include several Requests for Applications and Requests for Proposals, descriptions of which can be found in this Web site. BMAP is also in the process of establishing physical and electronic resources for the community, including repositories of cDNA clones for nervous system genes, and databases of gene expression information for the nervous system. Most of the BMAP initiatives so far have focused on the mouse as a model species because of the ease of experimental and genetic manipulation of this organism, and because many models of human disease are available in the mouse. However, research in humans, other mammalian species, non-mammalian vertebrates, and invertebrates is also being funded through BMAP. For the convenience of interested investigators, we have established this Web site as a central information resource, focusing on major NIH-sponsored funding opportunities, initiatives, genomic resources available to the research community, courses and scientific meetings related to BMAP initiatives, and selected reports and publications. When appropriate, we will also post initiatives not directly sponsored by BMAP, but which are deemed relevant to its goals. Posting decisions are made by the Trans-NIH BMAP Committee

Proper citation: BMAP - Brain Molecular Anatomy Project (RRID:SCR_008852) Copy   

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https://github.com/BRAINSia/BRAINSTools/tree/master/BRAINSDemonWarp

A command line program for image registration by using different methods including Thirion and diffeomorphic demons algorithms. The function takes in a template image and a target image along with other optional parameters and registers the template image onto the target image. The resultant deformation fields and metric values can be written to a file. The program uses the Insight Toolkit (www.ITK.org) for all the computations, and can operate on any of the image types supported by that library. This a an ITK based implementation of various forms of Thirion Demons based registration (including diffeomorphic demons registration originating from Tom Vercauteren at INRIA ).

Proper citation: BRAINSDemonWarp (RRID:SCR_009524) Copy   

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http://www.hedtags.org/

Strategy guide for HED Annotation. Framework for systematically describing laboratory and real world events.HED tags are comma separated path strings. Organized in forest of groups with roots Event, Item, Sensory presentation, Attribute, Action, Participant, Experiment context, and Paradigm. Used for preparing brain imaging data for automated analysis and meta analysis. Applied to brain imaging EEG, MEG, fNIRS, multimodal mobile brain or body imaging, ECG, EMG, GSR, or behavioral data. Part of Brain Imaging Data Structure standard for brain imaging.

Proper citation: HED Tags (RRID:SCR_014074) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/pediatric_mri

A database which contains longitudinal structural MRIs, spectroscopy, DTI and correlated clinical/behavioral data from approximately 500 healthy, normally developing children, ages newborn to young adult.

Proper citation: NIH Pediatric MRI Data Repository (RRID:SCR_014149) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/iukf_2013/

A tractography algorithm for HARDI which provides a relatively accurate and efficient fiber tracking mechanism by reconstructing a bi-tensor model for underlying signals and exploiting intrinsic operations on the space of diffusion tensors. Given HARDI data sets, IUKF is capable of tracking in the presence of complex local geometries, such as crossing and kissing fibers. Reconstruction is only performed at the voxels along estimated fibers.

Proper citation: Intrinsic Unscented Kalman Filter (IUKF) Tractography Software v1.0 (RRID:SCR_014127) Copy   

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https://imagej.net/

Open source Java based image processing software program designed for scientific multidimensional images. ImageJ has been transformed to ImageJ2 application to improve data engine to be sufficient to analyze modern datasets.

Proper citation: ImageJ (RRID:SCR_003070) Copy   

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http://web.stanford.edu/group/barres_lab/brain_rnaseq.html

Database containing RNA-Seq transcriptome and splicing data from glia, neurons, and vascular cells of cerebral cortex. Collection of RNA-Seq transcriptome and splicing data from glia, neurons, and vascular cells of mouse cerebral cortex. RNA-Seq of cell types isolated from mouse and human brain.

Proper citation: Brain RNA-Seq (RRID:SCR_013736) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/validate29/

Atlas was created from MRI scans of squirrel monkey brains. The atlas is currently comprised of multiple anatomical templates, diffusion MRI templates, and ex vivo templates. In addition, the templates are combined with histologically defined cortical labels, and diffusion tractography defined white matter labels.

Proper citation: VALiDATe29 Squirrel Monkey Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_015542) Copy   

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