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http://medschool.umaryland.edu/btbank/

The objective of this human tissue repository is to systematically collect, store, and distribute brain and other tissues for research dedicated to the improved understanding, care, and treatment of individuals with developmental disorders. Brain sections are primarily frozen in isopentane / dry ice. Tissues are stored in 10% formalin and frozen at -85 degrees C. Of special interest are individuals with Down syndrome and other chromosomal defects, mitochondrial encephalopathies, phenylketonuria and other aminoacidopathies, maternal PKU, Rett syndrome, leukodystrophies, lysosomal disorders, dyslexia, autism, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The brain and tissue banks have extensive experience in arranging for the rapid retrieval of tissue upon the death of individuals who die while at home, in hospitals or hospice care. As a special service, the brain and tissue banks are able to assist researchers who are working with patients who intend to donate tissues at the time of their death. Immediately after retrieval of the tissue, the brain and tissue banks will forward needed tissue to the referring investigators and ensure proper storage and cataloging of any additional tissues as part of the brain and tissue banks. The recipient of tissue and the brain and tissue banks are required to sign a Tissue Transfer Agreement before any tissues are transferred.

Proper citation: NICHD Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders (RRID:SCR_003601) Copy   

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http://rfmri.org/

A network for supporting resting-state fMRI (R-fMRI) related studies. It connects R-fMRI researchers (as nodes) by their sharings (as edges). Through the network, ideas, comments, resources, tools, experiences, and data can be shared. Researchers (nodes) with basic neuroscience, methodological, or clinical backgrounds can connect with each other in the network. It also contains a preprint server that allows neuroscientists to share their preprints, comment on each others research and get back valuable information about their experiments from their colleagues. This is based on the arXiv model. Ultimately, the network aims to enhance collaborations among researchers, especially to translate knowledge of basic neuroscience and methodology to clinical applications (bench to bedside).

Proper citation: RFMRI.ORG (RRID:SCR_004042) Copy   

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http://www.caneucre.org

Cre expressing mice under the control of promoters with a design focus on the brain. Each promoter is derived from human sequence, but the resulting expression is assessed in the mouse for the activation of a LacZ reporter gene by the Cre activity. Promoters tested as large MaxiPromoters (BACs inserted into the mouse genome) and MiniPromoters (plasmid-based sequences inserted either into the mouse genome or introduced within AAV viruses). The Cre-related project continues from the Pleiades Promoter Project. Here is the list of genes for which icre/ERT2 mice are currently in development: AGTR1, CARTPT, CLDN5, CLVS2, CRH, GABRA6, HTR1A, HTR1B, KCNA4, KDM5C, MKI67, NEUROD6, NKX6-1, NOV, NPY2R, NR2E1, OLIG2, POU4F2, SLITRK6, SOX1, SOX3, SOX9,, SPRY1, VSX2

Proper citation: CanEuCre (RRID:SCR_004159) Copy   

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http://cibsr.stanford.edu/

The Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CIBSR) at the Stanford University School of Medicine is dedicated to research that will improve the lives and well-being of individuals with disorders of the brain and improve knowledge of healthy brain and behavioral development. CIBSR research staff are dedicated to identifying biological and environmental risk factors, understanding disease pathophysiology and developmental outcomes, and developing new treatments for neurodevelopmental, neurogenetic and neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood onset. Our research studies are truly multi/interdisciplinary as they bring together experts from the fields of psychiatry, neurology, psychology, computer science, biostatistics and genetics to explore and seek answers for complex questions related to brain-behavior relationships. Active research at CIBSR includes: * Mutlimodal imaging of the brain utilizing anatomical and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). * Behavioral, cognitive, and physiological assessment to address questions concerning the influence of biological and environmental factors on outcome. * The development of new biological and cognitive-behavioral treatments. * Development of brain image analysis methods and software.

Proper citation: Stanford University, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (RRID:SCR_004134) Copy   

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https://www.uab.edu/medicine/alzheimers/

The UAB Alzheimer's Disease Center provides comprehensive treatment for Alzheimer's patients while also promoting research for the prevention and cure of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The ADC is an interdisciplinary program of scientists working in areas including neurology, psychiatry, genetics, and psychology. The Center provides comprehensive treatment and promotes research for the prevention and/or cure of Alzheimer's disease and other related disorders with memory loss and impaired cognition. A major emphasis of research is the maintenance of a clinical research database comprised of neurological, medical, and neuropsychological test data from participants seen in the ADRC Clinical study since 1999, many of whom have been followed for several years in the study.

Proper citation: UAB Alzheimer's Disease Center (RRID:SCR_004305) Copy   

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http://www.brainnet-europe.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE.Documented on July 7, 2022. Consortium of 19 brain banks across Europe with an aim to harmonize neuropathological diagnostic criteria and develop gold standards for quality, safety and ethics standards for brain banking. BrainNet Europe also contributes to research on rare diseases, such as: Pick''s disease or other rare forms of dementia, as well as to questions after the events in the aging brain. Anyone can be a donor - irrespective of disease of the central nervous system or not, because for research purposes, one does not only need tissue samples from ill donors, but also from healthy ones for comparison.

Proper citation: BrainNet Europe (RRID:SCR_004461) Copy   

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http://www.epilepsy.ie/index.cfm/spKey/research.html

Epilepsy Research Ireland is a non-profit organization (Charity CHY17527), run by a group of volunteers, who are dedicated to find cure for epilepsy by raising awareness and money for research. We can say cure now with much more confidence than we could even 10 years ago because recent advances in genetics, brain imaging and drug therapy, all hold out the promise of that holy grail the cure. We can also say with confidence that you can be part of that push by participating in this new foundation since we have collaborations with doctors and scientists all over Europe, the US and Australia, all of whom share the same goal. Epilepsy research, conducted by Epilepsy Research Ireland, is essential and will deliver benefits across the board. Research planned and already underway by Epilepsy Research Ireland will help develop and improve clinical skills; it will provide a knowledge base to develop new ways to manage and treat epilepsy; it will help in the evaluation of new medical advances. Ultimately we can improve the quality of care and provide greater understanding, better and more accurate diagnosis and more tailored treatments. Ireland is uniquely well-positioned, given its relatively homogenous population to make the goal, of making real discoveries in epilepsy research that will directly improve the lives of people with epilepsy, a realistic one.

Proper citation: Epilepsy Research Ireland (RRID:SCR_004448) Copy   

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http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/nervous/nervous.htm

Histology atlas of different parts of the nervous system that corresponds with the laboratory exercises of the Cell & Tissue Biology course of the School of Medicine of the University of Kansas. Succinct explanations of the tissues to guide the first-year medical student in the use of their microscope is provided and subsequently serves as a permanent histology resource for all medical students and physicians. Sections of the brain that are included are: * Spinal Cord * Central Canal * White Matter * Gray Matter * Dorsal Root Ganglion * Cerebellum * Cerebrum * Astrocytes * Nerve * Node of Ranvier * Pacinian Corpuscle

Proper citation: HistoWeb: Nervous System (RRID:SCR_002369) Copy   

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http://www.bioon.com/bioline/neurosci/course/index.htm

An illustrated guide to the essential basics of clinical neuroscience created in conjunction with the first-year course for medical students.
Topics covered:
* Coronal and horizontal sections
* Basic visual pathway
* Basic somatosensory pathway
* Basic motor pathway
* Eye and retina
* Central visual pathways
* Auditory and vestibular systems
* Somatosensory pathways from the body
* Somatosensory pathways from the face
* Spinal motor structures
* Brainstem nuclei of cranial nerves
* Basal ganglia and cerebellum
* Hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system
* Medial temporal lobe and memory
* Sleep and language
* Where is...?

Proper citation: Washington University School of Medicine Neuroscience Tutorial (RRID:SCR_002271) Copy   

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http://connectomes.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on October 28,2025. Project mapping whole mouse brain connectivity using serial block face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM) with a specially-designed whole-brain microtome (WBM). With any luck, the whole mouse brain will be mapped ultrastructurally in the near term, which will then open the door to more serious problems; reliable automated segmentation and circuit reconstruction. These will undoubtedly require advances in machine learning methods and their application. Connectomics Software and a Multiresolution Image Viewer (MIV) is also available.

Proper citation: Connectomes.org (RRID:SCR_002243) Copy   

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http://www.behav.org/abcd/abcd.php

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented August 21, 2017.

Database developed for storing, retrieving and cross-referencing neuroscience information about the connectivity of the avian brain. It contains entries about the new and old terminology of the areas and their hierarchy and data on connections between brain regions, as well as a functional keyword system linked to brain regions and connections.

Proper citation: Avian Brain Circuitry Database (RRID:SCR_002401) Copy   

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http://www.jeiglesias.com

An automatic whole-brain extraction tool for T1-weighted MRI data (commonly known as skull stripping). Whole-brain segmentation is often the first component in neuroimage pipelines and therefore, its robustness is critical for the overall performance of the system. Many methods have been proposed in the literature, but they often: * work well on certain datasets but fail on others. * require case-specific parameter tuning ROBEX aims for robust skull-stripping across datasets with no parameter settings. It fits a triangular mesh, constrained by a shape model, to the probabilistic output of a supervised brain boundary classifier. Because the shape model cannot perfectly accommodate unseen cases, a small free deformation is subsequently allowed. The deformation is optimized using graph cuts.

Proper citation: ROBEX (RRID:SCR_002534) Copy   

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http://www.ndgo.net/sfn/nerve/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) provides this Web site, Neuroscience Education Resources Virtual Encycloportal (NERVE), to advance neuroscience teaching and educational efforts. SfN is a nonprofit association of more than 38,000 researchers and professionals, believes K-12 educators and vital partners for engaging the next generation of researchers. NERVE gives access to information and tools for teaching about the nervous system and related health issues. The goal of NERVE is to provide a gateway to credible information from government, nonprofit and other respected sources. Society scientists and educators have reviewed information for appropriateness but responsibility for content remains that of the originating author or organizations. NERVE gives access to information and tools for teaching about the nervous system and related health issues.

Proper citation: Neuroscience Education Resources Virtual Encycloportal (RRID:SCR_002897) Copy   

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http://www.unidesign.ch/wiki/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on December 6, 2012. Connectome Wiki is a knowledge base for macro- and mesoscale brain region and brain structural connectivity information across species. Employing modern semantic wiki technology, it serves as collaborative platform as well. What can I get? * Brain Regions: Plenty of information, including links to relevant literature and much more. * Brain Connections: Well established neuronal connections based mainly on neuronal tracer studies from the literature. * Abbreviations: Look up abbreviations and corresponding English and Latin names * Partition Schemes: Foundational and more partitions with their corresponding delineation criteria and protocols. * Species: Information about different species is available, using their binomial name as identifier. * External: Enhance the ConnectomeViewer with Volume-To-Ontology mappings. * Data Source: You can download the raw data in RDF or JSON. How can I contribute? If your research is in particular brain regions, or model organisms not yet registered, feel free to act as domain expert and add your knowledge. If you do any tracer studies, add findings with appropriate published papers. Incrementally building a mesoscale skeleton wiring diagram. Complete anything that is missing. See also PapersToAdd. Register your own partition scheme and link it semantically against known schemes. Adding brain region pages for your particular research organisms. Use ConnectomeWiki as knowledge backend for your application concerned with gross neuroanatomy. The goals of this wiki are: * A collaborative platform to collect, collate, manage and disseminate mesoscale nervous system region and connectivity information across various species * Authority for Brain Region Abbreviations * Representation of Brain Region Homologies * Interrelation of Brain Partition Schemes * Information source for the ConnectomeViewer application

Proper citation: Connectome Wiki (RRID:SCR_002675) Copy   

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http://www.wellesley.edu/Neuroscience/

Neuroscience was implemented as a new interdisciplinary major in 1999, replacing the Psychobiology Program and providing a base of experiences in biology, chemistry and psychology. Our students benefit from being able to work in small classes and to experience investigative lab experiences even in their introductory courses. Wellesley's neuroscience majors graduate with a liberal arts background coupled with sufficient concentration in this specialized field to be competitive among students coming from exclusively research-oriented institutions. The best proofs of the success of this approach are its products: * 60% of our graduates proceed to medical school; * 15% of our graduates continue on with graduate work in neuroscience, psychology, or neuropsychology; * 10% of our graduates pursue careers that intersect with neuroscience - for example, patent law or work in the biotech industry. Neuroscience is the study of the structure and function of neurons and how they are assembled to produce behaviors. This topic uses a multidisciplinary approach that extends from the molecular, through the cellular, and to the behavioral level.

Proper citation: Wellesley College Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_002734) Copy   

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http://www.umc.edu/Administration/Centers_and_Institutes/Center_for_Psychiatric_Neuroscience/Core_Research_Resources.aspx

Core facility that provides access to psychiatrically characterized post-mortem brain specimens, state-of-the-art equipment, cutting-edge technologies and the technical advice of highly trained faculty members who serve as Core Directors. The sophisticated imaging systems and biotechnologically advanced molecular core resources are provided on a shared-use basis to CPN and UMMC researchers. The CPN Research Resources Cores include the Human Brain Collection Core, Animal Core, Imaging Core, Molecular Biology Core, and Information Technologies Core.

Proper citation: UMMC Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience Labs and Facilities (RRID:SCR_002688) Copy   

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http://senselab.med.yale.edu/neurondb

Database of three types of neuronal properties: voltage gated conductances, neurotransmitter receptors, and neurotransmitter substances. It contains tools that provide for integration of these properties in a given type of neuron and compartment, and for comparison of properties across different types of neurons and compartments.

Proper citation: NeuronDB (RRID:SCR_003105) Copy   

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http://www.brainscape.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on May 23, 2013. Database for resting state functional connectivity studies. Functional connectivity has shown tremendous promise in mapping the intrinsic functional topography of the brain, evaluating neuroanatomical models, and investigating neurological and psychiatric disease. Brainscape includes a repository of public and private data and an analysis engine for exploring the correlation structure of spontaneous fluctuations in the fMRI BOLD signal. (DICOM data is the image format that can be uploaded.) With Brainscape you can upload, analyze, and share your own data. You can search for, download, and analyze studies in the repository of shared data. The analysis engine works by selecting one or more studies, typing in the coordinates of a brain region of interest, and the seed-region correlation engine computes the correlation structure across the whole brain. (T1, T2 and EPI data are the scan types Brainscape can process.) You decide who can access your data. You can keep it to yourself, share with select colleagues, or share it with everyone. The Brainscape database and analysis tools are open source and freely available.

Proper citation: Brainscape (RRID:SCR_002962) Copy   

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http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging

Portal where neuroimaging studies are carried out using a Siemens 3T Tim Trio Magnetic Resonance Imaging (or MRI) scanner that is wholly dedicated to studies in Cognitive Neuroscience. From emotions and memories to language and learning, functional neuroimaging is being applied in many different areas of Cognitive Neuroscience. In many cases, this research relies upon support from healthy volunteers although neuroimaging studies are also being conducted in various clinical populations, including depression, anxiety, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Proper citation: CBU Imaging Wiki (RRID:SCR_003014) Copy   

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

As part of BMAP gene discovery efforts, mouse brain cDNA libraries and Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) have been generated. Through this project a BMAP mouse brain UniGene set consisting of over 24,000 non-redundant members of unique clusters has been developed from EST sequencing of more than 50,000 cDNA clones from 10 regions of adult mouse brain, spinal cord, and retina (http://brainEST.eng.uiowa.edu/). In 2001, NIMH along with NICHD, NIDDK, and NIDA, awarded a contract to the University of Iowa ( M.B. Soares, PI) to isolate full-length cDNA clones corresponding to genes expressed in the developing mouse nervous system and determine their full-coding sequences. The BMAP mouse brain EST sequences can be accessed at NCBI's dbEST database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST/). Arrayed sets of BMAP mouse brain UniGenes and cDNA libraries, and individual BMAP cDNA clones can be purchased from Open Biosystems, Huntsville, AL (http://www.openbiosystems.com

Proper citation: BMAP cDNA Resources (RRID:SCR_002973) Copy   

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