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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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https://www.humanconnectome.org/software/connectome-workbench

Software brain visualization, analysis and discovery tool for fMRI and dMRI brain imaging data, including functional and structural connectivity data generated by the Human Connectome Project. Used to map brain imaging data. Allows for visualization of outputs from HCP pipelines from single subject, or average data from group of subjects and register that data onto standard brain atlas.

Proper citation: Connectome Workbench (RRID:SCR_008750) Copy   

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http://humanconnectome.org/

Consortium to comprehensively map long-distance brain connections and their variability. It is acquiring data and developing analysis pipelines for several modalities of neuroimaging data plus behavioral and genetic data from healthy adults.

Proper citation: Human Connectome Coordination Facility (RRID:SCR_008749) Copy   

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http://www.nimh.nih.gov/educational-resources/neuroscience-and-psychiatry/neuroscience-and-psychiatry-module-2-fear-safety-anxiety-and-anxiety-disorders.shtml

This is the second in a series of modules on neuroscience and psychiatry. This module describes neuroscience research on animal models of fear that informed human studies of fear/safety, anxiety and anxiety disorders. This model helps shed light on the symptoms of PTSD and lead to the development of a novel treatment that has been successful in research studies for several anxiety disorders.

Proper citation: Neuroscience and Psychiatry Module 2: Fear/Safety Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders (RRID:SCR_008843) Copy   

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http://www.nimh.nih.gov/funding/clinical-trials-for-researchers/practical/tordia/treatment-of-ssri-resistant-depression-in-adolescents-tordia.shtml

A multi-site, clinical research study examining treatment options for teens whose depression has not improved after one adequate trial of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), a type of antidepressant. The purpose of the study is to determine how best to treat adolescents with depression that is resistant to the first SSRI antidepressant they have tried. Participants receive one of three other antidepressant medications, either alone or in combination with cognitive behavioral therapy. The TORDIA study aims to develop useful clinical guidelines for the care and management of adolescent depression. Adolescents ages 12 to 18, currently taking a prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and still experiencing depression, participate in a 12-week randomized treatment study that includes one of four conditions: (1) switching to an alternative SSRI, (2) switching to a different non-SSRI antidepressant, (3) switching to an alternative SSRI and receiving cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or (4) switching to a different non-SSRI antidepressant and receiving CBT. This is a double-blind study, which means that neither the participant nor the clinical staff will know which of the three possible medications has been assigned. Participants who respond to the assigned treatment will receive 12 additional weeks of the same treatment. Those who do not appear to be getting better will be offered 12 weeks of an alternative, individualized treatment plan based on each participant''s particular needs. All participants will receive follow-up psychiatric evaluations for 12 months after the 12-week continuation phase of the study, regardless of treatment adherence. For more information visit, http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00018902?term=clinical+trial+AND+treatment+of+ssri-resistant+AND+depression+AND+TORDIA+AND+study&rank=1

Proper citation: Treatment of SSRI-resistant Depression in Adolescents (TORDIA) (RRID:SCR_008831) 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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http://cbdb.nimh.nih.gov/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 07, 2013. A multidisciplinary neuroscience laboratory in which basic and clinical scientists work side by side exploring neural mechanisms and models of mental and cognitive function and of neuropsychiatric illness. Experiments are performed at many levels of inquiry, from basic molecular biology of the gene to clinical examinations of patients. A major area of investigation of this laboratory is the genetic mechanisms implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and its treatment. The laboratory is organized as a multi-disciplinary team of investigators with a common mission: to identify and fully characterize basic genetic and neurobiological mechanisms of schizophrenia and related cognitive and emotional disorders. The various components of this effort are centered various different units or divisions represented by groups of investigators, at various levels of training and experience, working on related experiments. The Director of the Branch and of the Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program (GCAP) is Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D. The CBDB is the principle research laboratory in the created (2003) Genes, Cognition, and Psychosis Program (GCAP) of the NIMH. After twelve years of residing on the pastoral grounds of St. Elizabeths Hospital, in Southeast Washington, CBDB moved back to the main NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland in 1998. While the unique setting of St. Elizabeths is irreplaceable, we have occupied beautiful new laboratories and clinic spaces that were created for us, and we are in the mainstream of NIH life., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: NIMH Intramural Research Program Clinical Brain Disorders Branch (RRID:SCR_008728) Copy   

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http://erpinfo.org/erplab

A set of open source, freely available Matlab routines for analyzing Event Related Potential (ERP) data. It is tightly integrated with the EEGLAB Toolbox. ERPLAB routines can be accessed from the Matlab command window and from Matlab scripts in addition to being accessed from the EEGLAB GUI. Consequently, ERPLAB provides the ease of learning of a GUI-based system but also provides the power and flexibility of a scripted system.The development of ERPLAB Toolbox is being coordinated by Steve Luck and Javier Lopez-Calderon at the UC-Davis Center for Mind & Brain, with financial support from NIMH.

Proper citation: ERPLAB (RRID:SCR_009574) 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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https://github.com/gillislab/CrossExpression

Software package to discover genes that coordinate their expression across spatially adjacent cells. Used for analysis of spatial transcriptomic data allowing in-depth analyses how genes coordinate their expression in space to perform tissue-level functions. Facilitates analysis and exploration of cross-expression patterns.

Proper citation: CrossExpression (RRID:SCR_027990) Copy   

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https://github.com/ericcfields/FMUT/wiki/

Software toolbox (FMUT) is an extension to David Groppe’s Mass Univariate ERP Toolbox (MUT). MUT implements t-tests for several different mass univariate approaches to the analysis of ERP data. FMUT adds to this by implementing one-way and factorial ANOVA versions of the same mass univariate approaches.

Proper citation: Factorial Mass Univariate Toolbox (RRID:SCR_028612) Copy   

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https://www.synapse.org/

Sage Bionetworks, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), University of Pennsylvania (Penn), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited (TAKEDA) have launched a Public-Private Pre-Competitive Consortium, the CommonMind Consortium, to generate and analyze large-scale genomic data from human subjects with neuropsychiatric disease and to make this data and the associated analytical results broadly available to the public. This collaboration brings together disease area expertise, large scale and well curated brain sample collections, and data management and analysis expertise from the respective institutions. As many as 450 million people worldwide are believed to be living with a mental or behavioral disorder: schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are two of the top six leading causes of years lived with disability according to the World Health Organization. The burden on the individual as well as on society is significant with estimates for the health care costs for these individuals as high as four percent GNP. This highlights a grave need for new therapies to alleviate this suffering. Researchers from MSSM including Dr. Pamela Sklar, Dr. Joseph Buxbaum and Dr. Eric Schadt will join with Dr. Raquel Gur and Dr. Chang-Gyu Hahn from Penn to combine their extensive brain bank collections for the generation of whole genome scale RNA and DNA sequence data. Dr.Pamela Sklar, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at MSSM commented this is an exciting opportunity for us to use the newest genomic methods to really expand our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of neuropsychiatric disease, while Dr Raquel Gur, Professor of Psychiatry from Penn observed this will be a great complement to some of the large-scale genetic analyses that have been carried out to date because it will give a more complete mechanistic picture. The CommonMind Consortium is committed to generating an open resource for the community and invites others with common goals to contact us at info (at) CommonMind.org.

Proper citation: CommonMind Consortium (RRID:SCR_000139) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/LOVE

A versatile 1D, 2D and 3D data viewer geared for cross-platform visualization of stereotactic brain data. It is a 3-D viewer that allows volumetric data display and manipulation of axial, sagittal and coronal views. It reads Analyze, Raw-binary and NetCDF volumetric data, as well as, Multi-Contour Files (MCF), LWO/LWS surfaces, atlas hierarchical brain-region labelings ( Brain Trees). It is a portable Java-based software, which only requires a Java interpreter and a 64 MB of RAM memory to run on any computer architecture. LONI_Viz allows the user to interactively overlay and browse through several data volumes, zoom in and out in the axial, sagittal and coronal views, and reports the intensities and the stereo-tactic voxel and world coordinates of the data. Expert users can use LONI_Viz to delineate structures of interest, e.g., sulcal curves, on the 3 cardinal projections of the data. These curves then may be use to reconstruct surfaces representing the topological boundaries of cortical and sub-cortical regions of interest. The 3D features of the package include a SurfaceViewer and a full real-time VolumeRenderer. These allow the user to view the relative positions of different anatomical or functional regions which are not co-planar in any of the axial, sagittal or coronal 2D projection planes. The interactive part of LONI_Viz features a region drawing module used for manual delineation of regions of interest. A series of 2D contours describing the boundary of a region in projection planes (axial, sagittal or coronal) could be used to reconstruct the surface-representation of the 3D outer shell of the region. The latter could then be resliced in directions complementary to the drawing-direction and these complementary contours could be loaded in all tree cardinal views. In addition the surface object could be displayed using the SurfaceViewer. A pre-loading data crop and sub-sampling module allows the user to load and view practically data of any size. This is especially important when viewing cryotome, histological or stained data-sets which may reach 1GB (109 bytes) in size. The user could overlay several pre-registered volumes, change intensity colors and ranges and the inter-volume opacities to visually inspect similarities and differences between the different subjects/modalities. Several image-processing aids provide histogram plotting, image-smoothing, etc. Specific Features: * Region description DataBase * Moleculo-genetic database * Brain anatomical data viewer * BrainMapper tool * Surface (LightWave objects/scenes) and Volume rendering tools * Interactive Contour Drawing tool Implementation Issues: * Applet vs. Application - the software is available as both an applet and a standalone application. The former could be used to browse data from within the LONI database, however, it imposes restrictions on file-size, Internet connection and network-bandwidth and client/server file access. The later requires a local install and configuration of the LONI_Viz software * Extendable object-oriented code (Java), computer architecture independent * Complete online software documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/LONI_Viz and a Java-Class documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~dinov/LONI_Vis.dir/doc/LONI_Viz_Java_Docs.html

Proper citation: LONI Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_000765) Copy   

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http://neuromorphometrics.org:8080/nvm/index.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 6, 2023. Software tool for quantitative neuroanatomical measurements in volumetric image data. Used to draw regions of interest for subsequent fMRI analysis.

Proper citation: NVM (RRID:SCR_000600) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/Pipeline

A free workflow application primarily aimed at neuroimaging researchers that allows users to easily describe their executables in a graphical user interface (ie. create a module) and connect them together to create complex analyses all without having to code a single line in a scripting language. The Pipeline Client runs on your PC/Mac/Linux computer upon which you can create sophisticated processing workflows using a variety of commonly available executable tools (e.g. FSL, AIR, FreeSurfer, AFNI, Diffusion Toolkit, etc). The Distributed Pipeline Server can be installed on your Linux cluster and you can submit processing jobs directly to your own compute systems. Once you����??ve created a module for use in the LONI Pipeline, you can save it into your personal library and reuse it in other workflows you create by simply dragging and dropping it in. Because the LONI Pipeline is written in Java, you can work in whatever operating system suits you best. If there are tools that you need that can only work on another operating system, you can install a Pipeline server on that computer and connect from your client to do processing and analysis remotely.

Proper citation: LONI Pipeline Processing Environment (RRID:SCR_001161) Copy   

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http://mbl.org

Collection of high resolution images and databases of brains from many genetically characterized strains of mice with aim to systematically map and characterize genes that modulate architecture of mammalian CNS. Includes detailed information on genomes of many strains of mice. Consists of images from approximately 800 brains and numerical data from just over 8000 mice. You can search MBL by strain, age, sex, body or brain weight. Images of slide collection are available at series of resolutions. Apple's QuickTime Plugin is required to view available MBL Movies.

Proper citation: Mouse Brain Library (RRID:SCR_001112) Copy   

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http://clarityresourcecenter.org/

Protocols and other training materials related to the CLARITY protocol, a technique for the transformation of intact tissue into a nanoporous hydrogel-hybridized form (crosslinked to a three-dimensional network of hydrophilic polymers) that is fully assembled but optically transparent and macromolecule-permeable.

Proper citation: Clarity resources (RRID:SCR_001387) Copy   

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http://qnl.bu.edu/obart

Tool that provides an interactive method to examine quantitative relationships between brain regions defined by different digital atlases or parcellation methods. Its current focus is for human brain imaging, though the techniques generalize to other domains. The method offers a quantitative answer to the nomenclature problem in neuroscience by comparing brain parts on the basis of their geometrical definitions rather than on the basis of name alone. Thus far these tools have been used to quantitatively compare eight distinct parcellations of the International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM) single-subject template brain, each created using existing atlasing methods. This resources provides measures of global and regional similarity, and offers visualization techniques that allow users to quickly identify the correspondences (or lack of correspondences) between regions defined by different atlases.

Proper citation: OBART (RRID:SCR_001903) Copy   

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http://mus.well.ox.ac.uk/mouse/INBREDS/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 19,2025. Data set of genotypes available for 480 strains and 13370 successful SNP assays that are mapped to build34 of the mouse genome, including 107 SNPs that are mapped to random unanchored sequence 13374 SNPs are mapped onto Build 33 of the mouse genome. You can access the data relative to Build 33 or Build 34.

Proper citation: Wellcome-CTC Mouse Strain SNP Genotype Set (RRID:SCR_003216) Copy   

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http://nif.nimh.nih.gov/

Neurophysiology imaging core facility that provides anatomical and functional MRI scanning for researchers in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Eye Institute (NEI), and the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The shared intramural resource centers on a cutting-edge 4.7T vertical bore scanner dedicated to imaging of nonhuman primates.

Proper citation: Neurophysiology Imaging Facility (RRID:SCR_004080) Copy   

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