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http://crezoo.crt-dresden.de/crezoo/

Database of helpful set of CreERT2 driver lines expressing in various regions of the developing and adult zebrafish. The lines have been generated via the insertion of a mCherry-T2A-CreERT2 in a gene trap approach or by using promoter fragments driving CreERT2. You can search the list of all transgenic lines or single entries by insertions (gene) or expression patterns (anatomy/region). In most cases the CreERT2 expression profile using in situ hybridization at 24 hpf and 48 hpf is shown, but also additional information (e.g. mCherry or CreERT2 expression at adult stages, transactivation of a Cre-dependent reporter line) is displayed. Currently, not all insertions have been mapped to a genomic location but the database will be regularly updated adding newly generated insertions and mapping information. Your help in improving and broadening the database by giving your opinion or knowledge of expression patterns is highly appreciated.

Proper citation: CreZoo (RRID:SCR_008919) Copy   

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http://www.ttuhsc.edu/centers/aging/giabrainbank.aspx

The Brain Bank was developed with two service-minded objectives: provide a free brain autopsy to confirm clinical diagnosis of dementia, and collect, bank and provide brain tissue to qualified scientific researchers studying diseases related to dementia. By working together, patients and researchers can help us understand the origins of neurodegenerative disease and eventually improve the treatment and care of dementia. The clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can only be confirmed by brain autopsy, or the examination of brain tissue after death. This examination will determine a patients's precise type of dementia. To confirm the diagnosis of Alzheimer's, for example, the brain tissue is examined for amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles by a neuropathologist. The presence of these plaques and tangles will verify the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. While it is important to us to enroll patients with dementia, it is equally important to enroll people with no dementia. These subjects are termed as controls and the brain tissue from controls will enable researchers to make comparisons to brain tissue from dementia patients. We are seeking donations from individuals who have had an age-related neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Lewy Body or other related dementia.

Proper citation: GIA Brain Bank Program (RRID:SCR_008877) Copy   

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http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/neurology/alzheimers/research/data-tissue/neuro-imaging.cfm

NeuroImaging laboratory focused on detecting early brain changes associated with cognitive decline and dementia that manages the neuroimaging component of all studies at the Layton Aging and Alzheimer's Center including acquisition and archival services, as well as volumetric analysis of anonymized MRI scans. Assistance with resulting data is also available, including statistical analysis, and preparation of materials for presentation and publication. The Layton Center also manages a library of thousands of digitized MRI scans, including what is believed to be the largest collection of longitudinal MRI scans of cognitively intact elderly subjects. The OADC Neuroimaging Lab conducts MRI studies on both 3 and 7T MRI systems using advanced sequences, employing a multimodal approach to brain imaging research.

Proper citation: Layton Center NeuroImaging Laboratory (RRID:SCR_008823) Copy   

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http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=brainfacts

Brain Facts is a 74-page primer on the brain and nervous system, published by SfN. Designed for a lay audience as an introduction to neuroscience, Brain Facts is also a valuable educational resource used by high school teachers and students who participate in Brain Awareness Week. The 2008 edition updates all sections and includes new information on brain development, learning and memory, language, neurological and psychiatric illnesses, potential therapies, and more. Download the full book (PDF) or download individual sections. All downloads are PDFs. Educators, request a copy of the Brain Facts book (paperback or CD) - contact BAW@SfN.org.

Proper citation: Brain Facts (RRID:SCR_008788) Copy   

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http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/neurology/alzheimers/

An aging and Alzheimer's disease research center that conducts studies of treatments, technologies for patient support, genetics, neuroimaging, and pathology. The Center's clinical research focuses on understanding differing rates of progression and cognitive decline as compared to optimal cognitive health in the elderly and are currently studying methods of gauging the progression of Alzheimer’s disease through research in genetics, neuroimaging, and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers. Clinical trials performed at the Center include drugs targeted to ameliorate the symptoms of memory failure and slow the progression of disease.

Proper citation: OHSU Layton Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Center (RRID:SCR_008821) Copy   

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http://www.med.upenn.edu/cndr/biosamples-brainbank.html

A brain and tissue bank that contains human brain samples from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related neurodegenerative dementias and movement disorders. This brain bank serves as a resource for scientists and researchers, providing access to tissue samples for further research. While priority is given to University of Pennsylvania researchers, this bank will provide requests to researchers not associated with the University of Pennsylvania. This tissue bank accepts donations from those seeing a University of Pennsylvania physician or collaborator.

Proper citation: University of Pennslyvania Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_008820) Copy   

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http://www.nimh.nih.gov/educational-resources/brains-inner-workings/the-brains-inner-workings-activities-for-grades-9-through-12.shtml

This comprehensive free collection of multimedia resources and inquiry-based activities tied to the National Science Education Standards help teachers and students learn about the structure, function and cognitive aspects of the human brain. The packet includes a teacher's manual, student manual, DVD of videos, and a CDROM of accompanying materials.

Proper citation: Brain's Inner Workings: Activities for Grades 9 through 12 (RRID:SCR_008842) Copy   

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http://www.blueprintnhpatlas.org/

Atlas of gene expression in the developing rhesus macaque brain. This atlas is a free online resource with a unique set of data and tools aimed to create a developmental neuroanatomical framework for exploring the cellular and molecular architecture of the developing postnatal primate brain with direct relevance for human brain development. The atlas includes: * Microarray ** Microdissection: Fine structure transcriptional profiling across postnatal development for fine nuclear subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex, primary visual cortex, hippocampus, amygdala and ventral striatum ** Macrodissection: Gross structure transcriptional profiling across postnatal development for the same structures * ISH: ** Cellular resolution in situ hybridization image data of five major brain regions during postnatal developmental periods for genes clinically important for a variety of human neurodevelopmental disorders, including prefrontal cortex, primary visual cortex, hippocampus, amygdala and ventral striatum. ** Serial analysis of selected genes across the entire adult brain, focusing on cellular marker genes, genes with cortical area specificity and gene families important to neural function. * ISH Anatomic Search: Detailed gene expression search on the ISH data based on expert annotation * Reference Data: Developmental stage-specific reference series, consisting of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Nissl histology to provide a neuroanatomical context for the gene expression data. These data and tools are designed to provide a valuable public resource for researchers and educators to explore neurodevelopment in non-human primates, and a key evolutionary link between other Web-based gene expression atlases for adult and developing mouse and human brain.

Proper citation: NIH Blueprint NHP Atlas (RRID:SCR_010559) Copy   

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http://www.mssm.edu/research/programs/manhattan-hiv-brain-bank/

Biorepository of tissues and fluids relevant for the neurologic, neuropsychologic, psychiatric and neuropathologic manifestations of HIV infection, linked to medical records and an on-going clinical trial for research use by the scientific community. The MHBB conducts a longitudinal, observational study that follows a group of HIV-infected individuals who have agreed to be fluid and organ donors for the purposes of AIDS research. They are currently the largest, multidisciplinary neuroAIDS cohort in New York City, the epicenter of the US HIV epidemic. Research participants undergo regular neurologic, neuropsychologic, and psychiatric evaluations, and provide body fluid samples that are linked to clinical information. Upon their demise, study participants become organ donors. This program has supplied clinical information, tissue, and fluid samples to over 70 qualified AIDS researchers across America, Europe and Australia. In fulfilling its resource mission, the MHBB functions as part of the National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium (NNTC). MHBB provides a means by which people living with HIV can be engaged in the struggle to improve our knowledge about HIV infection and the damage it causes to the body.

Proper citation: Manhattan HIV Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_010520) Copy   

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http://brainandsociety.org/the-brain-observatory

Formerly a topical portal studying the brain which collected and imaged 1000 human brains, the Brain Observatory has partnered with the Institute for Brain and Society to build virtual laboratories that will feed directly into the database of images and knowledge created in the context of the Human Brain Library. The Brain Observatory will also host exhibits, conferences, and events aimed at promoting a heightened awareness of brain research and how its results can benefit personal brain fitness and mental health.

Proper citation: Brain Observatory (RRID:SCR_010641) 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/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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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://millette.med.sc.edu/Lab%209%2610/histology_of_nervous_tissue.htm

A website for a neuroscience lab class from the University of South Carolina that contains images of different parts of the nervous system and allows students to identify each part and answer questions about it. You should be able to (a) recognize nervous tissue in routine histological sections; (b) distinguish peripheral nerves from dense CT and smooth muscle; (c) recognize the morphological differences between myelinated and unmyelinated nerves at both the light microscopic and electron microscopic levels; (d) recognize nerve cell bodies and their component parts; (e) identify and differentiate dendrites and axons; (f) understand and identify various types of neuroglia, including Schwann cells; (g) understand and identify the structural relationship of the Schwann cell cytoplasm and plasma membrane enveloping axons; (h) understand the general features of nerve synapses. You should be able to draw nerves, cell bodies, Nodes of Ranvier, synapses etc. as they would appear under both the electron and light microscopes.

Proper citation: Histology of Nervous Tissue Laboratory Course (RRID:SCR_002367) Copy   

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http://www.med.unc.edu/bric/ideagroup/free-softwares/libra-longitudinal-infant-brain-processing-package

A toolbox with graphical user interfaces for processing infant brain MR images. Longitudinal (or single-time-point) multimodality (including T1, T2, and FA) (or single-modality) data can be processed using the toolbox. Main functions of the software (step by step) include image preprocessing, brain extraction, tissue segmentation and brain labeling. Linux operating system (64 bit) is required. A workstation or server with memory >8G is recommended for processing many images simutaneously. The graphical user interfaces and overall framework of the software are implemented in MATLAB. The image processing functions are implemented with the combination of C/C++, MATLAB, Perl and Shell languages. Parallelization technologies are used in the software to speed up image processing.

Proper citation: iBEAT (RRID:SCR_002470) Copy   

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http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/

A physiologic and molecular look at drug addiction involving many factors including: basic neurobiology, a scientific examination of drug action in the brain, the role of genetics in addiction, and ethical considerations. Designed to be used by students, teachers and members of the public, the materials meet selected US education standards for science and health. Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by changes in the brain which result in a compulsive desire to use a drug. A combination of many factors including genetics, environment and behavior influence a person's addiction risk, making it an incredibly complicated disease. The new science of addiction considers all of these factors - from biology to family - to unravel the complexities of the addicted brain. * Natural Reward Pathways Exist in the Brain: The reward pathway is responsible for driving our feelings of motivation, reward and behavior. * Drugs Alter the Brain's Reward Pathway: Drugs work over time to change the reward pathway and affect the entire brain, resulting in addiction. * Genetics Is An Important Factor In Addiction: Genetic susceptibility to addiction is the result of the interaction of many genes. * Timing and Circumstances Influence Addiction: If you use drugs when you are an adolescent, you are more likely to develop lifetime addiction. An individual's social environment also influences addiction risk. * Challenges and Issues in Addiction: Addiction impacts society with many ethical, legal and social issues.

Proper citation: New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain (RRID:SCR_002770) Copy   

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http://www.cnl.salk.edu/

The long range goal of this laboratory is to understand the computational resources of brains from the biophysical to the systems levels. The central issues being addressed are how dendrites integrate synaptic signals in neurons, how networks of neurons generate dynamical patterns of activity, how sensory information is represented in the cerebral cortex, how memory representations are formed and consolidated during sleep, and how visuo-motor transformations are adaptively organized. Additionally, new techniques have been developed for modeling cell signaling using Monte Carlo methods (MCell) and the blind separation of brain imaging data into functionally independent components (ICA).

Proper citation: Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute (RRID:SCR_002809) Copy   

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http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/

Software library of image analysis and statistical tools for fMRI, MRI and DTI brain imaging data. Include registration, atlases, diffusion MRI tools for parameter reconstruction and probabilistic taractography, and viewer. Several brain atlases, integrated into FSLView and Featquery, allow viewing of structural and cytoarchitectonic standard space labels and probability maps for cortical and subcortical structures and white matter tracts. Includes Harvard-Oxford cortical and subcortical structural atlases, Julich histological atlas, JHU DTI-based white-matter atlases, Oxford thalamic connectivity atlas, Talairach atlas, MNI structural atlas, and Cerebellum atlas.

Proper citation: FSL (RRID:SCR_002823) Copy   

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http://www.rbwb.org/

The Rodent Brain WorkBench is the portal to atlases, databases and tools developed by the Neural Systems and Graphics Computing Laboratory (NeSys) at the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. The Rodent Brain WorkBench presents a collection of brain mapping and atlasing oriented database applications and tools. The main category of available data is high resolution mosaic images covering complete histological sections through the rat and mouse brain. A highly structured relational database system for archiving, retrieving, viewing, and analysing microscopy and imaging data, aiming at presentation in standardized brain atlas space, is used to present a series of web applications for individual research projects. * Brain Connectivity * Atlases of Mouse Brain Promoter Gene Expression * General Brain Atlas and Navigation Systems * Downloadable tools for 3-DVisualization Open Access: * Atlas 3D * Cerebro-Cerebellar I * Cerebro-Cerebellar II * Neurotransporter Atlas * Rat Hippocampus * Tet-Off Atlas I (PrP) * Tet-Off Atlas II (PrP/CamKII) * Whole Brain Connectivity Atlas The data presented have been produced in collaboration with a large number of laboratories in Europe and the United States.

Proper citation: Rodent Brain WorkBench (RRID:SCR_002727) Copy   

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http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on May 11, 2016. Repository of brain-mapping data (surfaces and volumes; structural and functional data) derived from studies including fMRI and MRI from many laboratories, providing convenient access to a growing body of neuroimaging and related data. WebCaret is an online visualization tool for viewing SumsDB datasets. SumsDB includes: * data on cerebral cortex and cerebellar cortex * individual subject data and population data mapped to atlases * data from FreeSurfer and other brainmapping software besides Caret SumsDB provides multiple levels of data access and security: * Free (public) access (e.g., for data associated with published studies) * Data access restricted to collaborators in different laboratories * Owner-only access for work in progress Data can be downloaded from SumsDB as individual files or as bundles archived for offline visualization and analysis in Caret WebCaret provides online Caret-style visualization while circumventing software and data downloads. It is a server-side application running on a linux cluster at Washington University. WebCaret "scenes" facilitate rapid visualization of complex combinations of data Bi-directional links between online publications and WebCaret/SumsDB provide: * Links from figures in online journal article to corresponding scenes in WebCaret * Links from metadata in WebCaret directly to relevant online publications and figures

Proper citation: SumsDB (RRID:SCR_002759) Copy   

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