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http://www.nesys.uio.no/Atlas3D/

A multi-platform visualization tool which allows import and visualization of 3-D atlas structures in combination with tomographic and histological image data. The tool allows visualization and analysis of the reconstructed atlas framework, surface modeling and rotation of selected structures, user-defined slicing at any chosen angle, and import of data produced by the user for merging with the atlas framework. Tomographic image data in NIfTI (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative) file format, VRML and PNG files can be imported and visualized within the atlas framework. XYZ coordinate lists are also supported. Atlases that are available with the tool include mouse brain structures (3-D reconstructed from The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates by Paxinos and Franklin (2001)) and rat brain structures (3-D reconstructed from The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates by Paxinos and Watson (2005)). Experimental data can be imported in Atlas3D and warped to atlas space, using manual linear registration, with the possibility to scale, rotate, and position the imported data. This facilitates assignment of location and comparative analysis of signal location in tomographic images.

Proper citation: Atlas3D (RRID:SCR_001808) Copy   

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http://www.nesys.uio.no/Micro3D/

The Micro3D 2004 is a software for 3-D reconstruction, visualization, and analysis of neuronal populations and brain regions. Micro3D generates geometric models from line and point coded data sets, representing labeled objects such as cell bodies or axonal plexuses, and boundaries of brain regions in serial sections. Data are typically imported from image-combining computerized microscopy systems, such as Neurolucida (MicroBrightField, Colchester, VT). The models may be rotated and zoomed in real-time. Surfaces are re-synthesized on the basis of stacks of contour lines. Clipping is used for defining section-independent subdivisions of the model. Flattening of sheets of points in curved layers (e.g., neurons in a cortical lamina) facilitates inspection of complicated distribution patterns. Micro3D computes color-coded density maps, and allows production of mpeg videos. Micro3D 2004 runs on LINUX PCs equipped with Open Inventor. It performs operations similar to the Silicon Graphics based version that has been used in more than 25 investigations and in various species, ranging from insects to monkeys, at the LM- and EM-level. Sponsors:Micro 3D was developed with support from The Research Council of Norway and The Oslo Research Park / FORNY.

Proper citation: Neural Systems and Graphics Computing Laboratory: Micro3D Software (RRID:SCR_001811) Copy   

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http://www.cogneurosociety.org/

The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) is committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition. Since its founding in 1994, the Society has been dedicated to bringing its 2000 worldwide members the latest research and dialogues in order to facilitate public, professional and scientific discourse. The term cognitive neuroscience has now been with us for almost three decades, and identifies an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature of thought. Our members, who are engaged in research focused on elucidating the biological underpinnings of mental processes, form a network of scientists and scholars working at the interface of mind, brain and behavior research. The findings of this research are presented at our member-supported annual scientific conference. The three-day program of plenary speakers, symposia, posters and special events covers all aspects of cognitive neuroscience research. The Society also disseminates information regarding employment opportunities, training fellowships, research grants, and information on related scientific conferences in its monthly newsletter. Our members can receive the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience at a substantial discount.

Proper citation: Cognitive Neuroscience Society (RRID:SCR_001990) Copy   

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http://bbrfoundation.org/

The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) is committed to alleviating the suffering of mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research. Additionally, learn about brain and behavior disorders and upcoming events.
100% of all donor contributions for research are invested in NARSAD Grants leading to discoveries in understanding causes and improving treatments of disorders in children and adults, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and anxiety disorders like obsessive-compulsive and post-traumatic stress disorders. Over a quarter of a century, we have awarded nearly $300 million worldwide to more than 3,000 scientists carefully selected by our prestigious Scientific Council. We receive no government funding. All of our work relies on contributions from families, foundations and other caring donors.

Proper citation: Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (RRID:SCR_001992) Copy   

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http://brainmapping.org/

This is a topical portal dedicated to the communication of news, science, and information of interest to the brain mapping community, and to sharing and promoting the science of brain mapping. The purpose and goal of brain mapping is to advance the understanding of the relationship between structure and function in the human brain. Scientists in this field seek to gain knowledge of the physical processes that underly human sensation, attention, awareness and cognition. These results are immediately applicable to surgical intervention, to the design of medical interventions and to the treatment of psychological and psychiatric disorders.

Proper citation: www.brainmapping.org (RRID:SCR_001987) Copy   

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http://www.iscbfm.org/

The International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism is a corporation operated exclusively for the purpose of promoting the advancement of education in the science of cerebral blood flow and metabolism throughout the world. The ISCBFM produces a quarterly newsletter, an official journal (Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism), have a yearly meeting, opportunities to host summer schools and a job board. ISCBFM members organize summer schools which are courses that have the aim to bring together young and experienced scientists for educational purposes. The biennial Brain Meetings also have a substantial part of the time allocated for educational purposes for young scientists interested in the field of cerebral blood flow and metabolism. Preference will be given to suggestions that are seen as a complement to scheduled courses in connection with the Brain Meetings and to courses that are given in between Brain Meetings.

Proper citation: ISCBFM - International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (RRID:SCR_001989) Copy   

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http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

International society dedicated to advancing understanding of anatomical and functional organization of human brain using neuroimaging. Primary function of society is to provide educational forums for exchange of up-to-the-minute and groundbreaking research across neuroimaging methods and applications. OHBM achieves this through its member led committees and Annual Meeting that is held in different locations throughout the world.

Proper citation: Organization for Human Brain Mapping (RRID:SCR_001978) Copy   

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http://adrc.ucsd.edu/

The UCSD ADRC conducts a wide variety of research studies dedicated to understanding the causes, clinical features, and treatments for Alzheimer's disease and related memory disorders. The goal of the center is to discover ways to prevent and eradicate the disease. The Center aims to maintain research subjects, clinical resources, and clinical data to support ongoing and proposed research and to assist in the development of new clinical and interdisciplinary research. An Alzheimer's brain bank with well characterized cases, including Mild Cognitive Impairment and Lewy Body disease, is maintained at the Center.

Proper citation: Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (RRID:SCR_001928) Copy   

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http://www.thevirtualbrain.org/

Simulation software for modeling the entire human brain by combining structural and functional data from empirical neuroimaging data. It can generate local field potentials, EEG, MEG and fMRI BOLD data based on neural mass models. The user can also modify the model parameters to match clinical conditions from focal lesions or degenerative disorders.

Proper citation: Virtual brain (RRID:SCR_002249) Copy   

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

Software package for brain image manipulation and analysis, focusing on fMRI and lesion analysis. VoxBo can be used independently or in conjunction with other packages. It provides GLM-based statistical tools, an architecture for interoperability with other tools (they encourage users to incorporate SPM and FSL into their processing pipelines), an automation system, a system for parallel distributed computing, numerous stand-alone tools, decent wiki-based documentation, and lots more.

Proper citation: VoxBo (RRID:SCR_002166) Copy   

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https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/

Global, collaborative effort for neuroscience, medicine and computing to understand brain, its diseases and its computational capabilities. Goal is to obtain access to research, data sources, platforms and infrastructures offered by other organisations, and enabling organizations outside HBP to use HBP platforms to pursue their own research. Coordinating these activities is the responsibility of the European Research Programme.

Proper citation: Human Brain Project EU (RRID:SCR_002241) Copy   

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http://olympus.magnet.fsu.edu/galleries/ratbrain/index.html

An image gallery of the rat brain labeled via immunofluorescence in coronal, horizontal, and sagittal thick sections using laser scanning confocal microscopy.

Proper citation: Confocal Microscopy Image Gallery - Rat Brain Tissue Sections (RRID:SCR_002432) Copy   

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

Training material for the MS lesion segmentation challenge 2008 to compare different algorithms to segment the MS lesions from brain MRI scans. Data used for the workshop is composed of 54 brain MRI images and represents a range of patients and pathology which was acquired from Children's Hospital Boston and University of North Carolian. Data has initially been randomized into three groups: 20 training MRI images, 24 testing images for the qualifying and 8 for the onsite contest at the 2008 workshop. The downloadable online database consists now of the training images (including reference segmentations) and all the 32 combined testing images (without segmentations). The naming has not been changed in comparison to the workshop compeition in order to allow easy comparison between the workshop papers and the online database papers. One dataset has been removed (UNC_test1_Case02) due to considerable motion present only in its T2 image (without motion artifacts in T1 and FLAIR). Such a dataset unfairly penalizes methods that use T2 images versus methods that don't use the T2 image. Currently all cases have been segmented by expert raters at each institution. They have significant intersite variablility in segmentation. MS lesion MRI image data for this competition was acquired seperately by Children's Hospital Boston and University of North Carolina. UNC cases were acquired on Siemens 3T Allegra MRI scanner with slice thickness of 1mm and in-plane resolution of 0.5mm. To ease the segmentation process all data has been rigidly registered to a common reference frame and resliced to isotrophic voxel spacing using b-spline based interpolation. Pre-processed data is stored in NRRD format containing an ASCII readable header and a separate uncompressed raw image data file. This format is ITK compatible. If you want to join the competition, you can download data set from links here, and submit your segmentation results at http://www.ia.unc.edu/MSseg after registering your team. They require team name, password, and email address for future contact. Once experiment is completed, you can submit the segmentation data in a zip file format. Please refer submission page for uploading data format.

Proper citation: MS lesion segmentation challenge 2008 (RRID:SCR_002425) Copy   

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http://knightadrc.wustl.edu/

The Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC) supports researchers and our surrounding community in their pursuit of answers that will lead to improved diagnosis and care for persons with Alzheimer disease (AD). The Center is committed to the long-term goal of finding a way to effectively treat and prevent AD. The Knight ADRC facilitates advanced research on the clinical, genetic, neuropathological, neuroanatomical, biomedical, psychosocial, and neuropsychological aspects of Alzheimer disease, as well as other related brain disorders.

Proper citation: Washington University School of Medicine Knight Alzheimers Disease Research Center (RRID:SCR_000210) Copy   

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https://resource.loni.usc.edu/resources/atlases/

Probabilistic reference system for human brain, including tools to establish this reference system for structural and functional anatomy on both macroscopic (in vivo) and microscopic (post mortem) levels. Project has expanded neuroinformatics tools for data sharing and created Conforming Site System that allows laboratories worldwide to contribute data to evolving atlas. Through implementation of ICBM data sharing policy space, they are fostering data exchange while still providing for scientific credit assignment and subject confidentiality.ICBM atlas collection consists of ICBM Template, tool developed to provide reference that includes both set of coordinates and associated anatomical labels; the ICBM 452 T1 atlas, average of T1-weighted MRIs of normal young adult brains, ICBM probabilistic atlases, and Cytoarchitectonic Atlas. ICBM Subject Database is web-based database infrastructure that simplifies image dataset collection, organization and dissemination. Authorized users may view representations of data and form collections of datasets that can be downloaded or fed directly into Pipeline environment for distributed processing and analysis.

Proper citation: International Consortium for Brain Mapping (RRID:SCR_000445) Copy   

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http://www.ecnp.eu/

A pan-European scientific association to encourage research across the neurosciences and to translate new knowledge on fundamental disease mechanisms into new medicines and clinical applications. As an interdisciplinary forum for the science and treatment of disorders of the brain, they promote the communication and cross- fertilization of high-quality experimental and clinical research across the field of neuroscience. ECNP is a non-profit member-based association, independently governed and self-funded. ECNP is a public-interest-serving entity.

Proper citation: ECNP (RRID:SCR_000501) Copy   

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http://www.pbtc.org/

The PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR CONSORTIUM (PBTC) is a multidisciplinary cooperative research organization devoted to the study of correlative tumor biology and new therapies for primary CNS tumors of childhood. PBTC's mission is to contribute rapidly and effectively to the understanding and cure of these tumors through the conduct of multi-center, multidisciplinary, innovative studies with designs and analyses based on uniformly high quality statistical science. While the primary mission of the PBTC is to identify through laboratory and clinical science superior treatment strategies for children with brain cancers, the PBTC investigators recognize their profound responsibility to meet the special needs of the children and families as they face this enormous challenge. Members are committed to working within their institutions and communities to improve support services and follow up care for these patients and their families. The PBTC's primary objective is to rapidly conduct novel phase I and II clinical evaluations of new therapeutic drugs, new biological therapies, treatment delivery technologies and radiation treatment strategies in children from infancy to 21 years of age with primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors. A second objective is to characterize reliable markers and predictors (direct or surrogate) of brain tumors' responses to new therapies. The Consortium conducts research on brain tumor specimens in the laboratory to further understand the biology of pediatric brain tumors. A third objective is to develop and coordinate innovative neuro-imaging techniques. Through the PBTC's Neuro-Imaging Center, formed in May 2000, research to evaluate new treatment response criteria and neuro-imaging methods to understand regional brain effects is in progress. These imaging techniques can also advance understanding of significant neuro-toxicity in a developing child's central nervous system. The Neuro-Imaging Center is supported in part by private sources - grants from foundations and non-profit organizations - in addition to the NCI. As an NCI funded Consortium, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) is required to make research data available to other investigators for use in research projects. An investigator who wishes to use individual patient data from one or more of the Consortium's completed and published studies must submit in writing a description of the research project, the PBTC studies from which data are requested, the specific data requested, and a list of investigators involved with the project and their affiliated research institutions. A copy of the requesting investigator's CV must also be provided. Participating Institutions: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Children's National Medical Center (Washington, DC), Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago), Duke University, National Cancer Institute, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Texas Children's Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco, and University of Pittsburgh.

Proper citation: Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (RRID:SCR_000658) Copy   

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

Autism research program that makes available post-mortem brain tissue to qualified scientists all over the world. Working directly with tissue banks, organ procurement agencies, medical examiners and the general public, this is the largest program dedicated to increasing and enhancing the availability of post-mortem brain tissue for basic research in autism. To date, the ATP has collected and stored more than 170 brains in their repositories at Harvard (US) and Oxford (UK). These brains are processed by formalin fixation and/or snap frozen to properly provide high quality tissue of all brain regions, in support of biological research in autism. The ATP is unique in that they diligently pursue all available clinical data (pre and post mortem) on tissue donors in order to create the most biologically relevant brain repository for autism research. These data, together with tissue resources from both banks and associated repositories, are presented to all interested researchers through their extensive web-based data portal (login required). The ATP is not a brain bank, but works directly with the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center in Boston (HBTRC), Massachusetts to serve as its tissue repository. This program augments brain bank functions by: * Creating the most biologically relevant brain tissue repository possible * Fully covering all costs associated with brain extraction and transfer to the repositories at Harvard (US and Canada) and Oxford (UK). * Providing scientific oversight of tissue distributions * Overseeing and managing all tissue grants * Clinically phenotyping and acquiring extensive medical data on all of their donors * Providing continuing family support and communication to all of their donors * Directly supporting researchers to facilitate autism research * Maintaining a robust web based data management and secure on-line global interface system * Developing and supporting ATP established scientific initiatives * Actively providing public outreach and education The ATP is not a clinical organ procurement agency, but rather they facilitate the wishes of donors and families to donate their tissue to autism research. Through the ATP's established international infrastructure, they work with any accredited tissue bank, organ procurement agency, or medical examiner that receives a family's request to donate their loved one's tissue to the program. Once contacted, the ATP will insure that the family's request to donate their loved one's tissue is faithfully met, covering all costs to the family and partnering agency as well as ensuring the tissues' proper and rapid transport to the ATP's repository at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Proper citation: Autism Tissue Program (RRID:SCR_000651) Copy   

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http://www.talairach.org/

Software automated coordinate based system to retrieve brain labels from the 1988 Talairach Atlas. Talairach Daemon database contains anatomical names for brain areas using x-y-z coordinates defined by the 1988 Talairach Atlas.

Proper citation: Talairach Daemon (RRID:SCR_000448) Copy   

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http://incf.org/programs/atlasing/projects/waxholm-space

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 1st, 2023. Coordinate based reference space for the mapping and registration of neuroanatomical data. Users can download image volumes representing the canonical Waxholm Space (WHS) adult C57BL/6J mouse brain, which include T1-, T2*-, and T2-Weighted MR volumes (generated at the Duke Center for In-Vivo Microscopy), Nissl-stained optical histology (acquired at Drexel University), and a volume of labels. All volumes are represented at 21.5μ isotropic resolution. Datasets are provided as gzipped NIFTI files.

Proper citation: Waxholm Space (RRID:SCR_001592) Copy   

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