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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://cnmdp.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CNMDP/overview

Platform to store, analyze, and share large amounts of various types of data to facilitate research, and ultimately, unravel the complex connections between the brain and the heart.

Proper citation: Cardio-Neuro-Mind Data Platform (RRID:SCR_027008) Copy   

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https://github.com/TonnesenLab/Diffusion-Model/

Software code for simulating diffusion in brain extracellular space images.

Proper citation: Diffusion-Model (RRID:SCR_027942) 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.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/cn/research/MRC-London-Neurodegenerative-Diseases-Brain-Bank/MRC-London-Neurodegenerative-Diseases-Brain-Bank.aspx

A biomaterial supply resource which provides high quality, clinically and neuropathologically well-characterised human brain and spinal cord tissue. The Brain Bank focuses on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Frontotemperal dementias (FTD) and Motor Neurone Disease (MND). However, it also contains tissues for the study of HIV, Autism and Schizophrenia, and movement disorders.

Proper citation: MRC London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_013839) Copy   

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http://semmelweis.hu/hbtb/

A biomaterial resource which stores and distributes dissected human brain samples and topographically oriented tissue blocks. Most brains were removed from the skull and frozen within 2-6 hours after death. The microdissection of 260 different brain nuclei is performed on frozen brains and the samples are kept in -70ºC. Materials must be studied in the course of an approved research project, which has scientific aims and is devoid of any commercial profit for the researches involved and for their respective institutions.

Proper citation: Human Brain Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_013837) Copy   

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http://www.stritch.luc.edu/depts/path/residency/anatomic_pathology.htm#Neuropathology

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 31, 2016. A medical center with a neuropathology research program focused on the normal and abnormal aging process of the central nervous system and a funding source for research. The center serves as a collection site for brains in order to study normal aging and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

Proper citation: Loyola University Medical Center / Hines VA Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_013277) Copy   

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http://www.uzh.ch/keyinst/loreta

Software application which computes cortical three-dimensional distribution of current density of the brain based on the scalp-recorded electric potential distribution. The exact low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography method has the property of exact localization to test point sources, yielding images of current density with exact localization, albeit with low spatial resolution. eLORETA has no localization bias even in the presence of structured noise. Deep structures, such as the anterior cingulate cortex and mesial temporal lobes, can be correctly localized with these methods.

Proper citation: exact Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (RRID:SCR_013830) Copy   

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520032/

Algorithm for computational imaging of MRI data that detects and quantifies ischemic core–penumbra using only a single MRI modality (T2- or diffusion-weighted imaging, T2WI/DWI). It can be used with 3D data on lesions and normal-appearing brain matter (NABM) volumes.

Proper citation: Hierarchical Region Splitting (RRID:SCR_016398) Copy   

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http://www.braindonors.org

An Australian brain bank which aims to collect, store, characterize and provide tissue to national and international researchers studying disorders of the brain such as alcohol-related brain damage and mental illness, like schizophrenia. The program encourages those who are medically healthy to donate.

Proper citation: Using our Brains Tissue Donor Program (RRID:SCR_000705) Copy   

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https://github.com/vaklip/rsfmri_fconn

Software program for preprocessing resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) measurements and calculating region of interest based whole brain functional connectivity.

Proper citation: rsfMRI_fconn calculation (RRID:SCR_016591) Copy   

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https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/anocva/index.html

Software R package as a nonparametric statistical test to compare clustering structures with applications in functional magnetic resonance imaging data (fMRI). Used for analysis of cluster variability in the diagnosis of neuropsychological disorders.

Proper citation: ANOCVA (RRID:SCR_016719) Copy   

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http://www.bcgsc.ca/project/pleiades-promoter-project

Project to generate human DNA promoters of less than 4 kb (MiniPromoters) to drive gene expression in defined brain regions of therapeutic interest for diseases such as Alzheimer, Parkinson, Huntington, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Spinocerebellar Ataxia, Depression, Autism, and Cancer. Project develops and shares tools like human MiniPromoters that drive region- and cell-specific gene expression in the mouse brain, expression constructs, mouse embryonic stem cell lines, and knock-in mice all of which carry brain-specific MiniPromoters. Project is daughter of Genome Canada Project, Atlas of Gene Expression in Mouse Development, within which mouse brain gene expression data have already been gathered. Project team has collaborated with International BioPharma Solutions Ltd., management and communications consulting company specializing in product development and commercialization advice. Project will explore challenging interface between science and journalism with focus on genomics and gene therapy.

Proper citation: Pleiades Promoter Project: Genomic Resources Advancing Therapies for Brain Disorders (RRID:SCR_003282) Copy   

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http://biomed.brown.edu/rhode-island-biobank/

Cryogenic facility for human tissue and fluid samples under management of Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine and supports biomedical research on Brown campus and across affiliated hospitals of Warren Alpert Medical School.

Proper citation: Brown University Rhode Island Biobank Core Facility (RRID:SCR_004289) Copy   

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http://zfishbook.org/

Collection of revertible protein trap gene-breaking transposon (GBT) insertional mutants in zebrafish with active or cryopreserved lines from initially identified lines. Open to community-wide contributions including expression and functional annotation and represents world-wide central hub for information on how to obtain these lines from diverse members of International Zebrafish Protein Trap Consortium (IZPTC) and integration within other zebrafish community databases including Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), Ensembl and National Center for Biotechnology Information. Registration allows users to save their favorite lines for easy access, request lines from Mayo Clinic catalog, contribute to line annotation with appropriate credit, and puts them on optional mailing list for future zfishbook newletters and updates.

Proper citation: zfishbook (RRID:SCR_006896) Copy   

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https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mrtool

Software toolkit for analysis of MR brain imaging data. MRTool runs on Apple computers and PCs and requires SPM12.

Proper citation: MRTool (RRID:SCR_015956) Copy   

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http://www.thebrainproject.org/

The Mission of the Sarah Jane Brain Project is to create a model system of care for children and young adults suffering from all Pediatric Acquired Brain Injuries in order to advance our knowledge of the brain fifty years over the next five years! As a father of a child suffering from a Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI), I have spent countless hours searching the internet and speaking with Sarah Jane's development team (doctors, therapists and other professionals) trying to improve the development of my daughter. What I found was that while there are a countless number of wonderful and informative prevention sites for Shaken Baby Syndrome and advocacy sites for brain injuries, there is no one centralized resource for research and rehabilitation for PABI. Furthermore, many of the issues families and children face are the same whether the brain injury was caused by a car crash, a sports-related concussion, an assault or by a tumor. No one person or organization has all the answers to the questions that parents of children suffering from PABI face. Yet through my own experience, I learned that the coordination and dissemination of Sarah Jane's medical and therapy records and data in an orderly manner greatly helps her development team better help her. These wonderful individuals are constantly looking for additional ways to improve Sarah Jane's progress by speaking with their colleagues, reading literature on brain injury, and collaborating with other parents. But they all admit there is a considerable amount that still needs to be learned about the human brain, particularly the developing brain. The field of neuroscience today is similar to the computer science field of the 1950s and 1960s: you have a diverse group of very smart people working independently of one another throughout the United States and the world, yet few know what the others are doing behind closed doors. Fast- forward 50 years and many of the breakthroughs in the computer industry have been made utilizing the principles of open source a research method that promotes free and open access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. Its use was made well-known through the creation of the Linux computer operating system, in which professionals share knowledge to make corrections and fix problems. Open source is commonly used by millions of people today through the Wikipedia online free encyclopedia, a collection of public entries on established subjects that allows anyone to make additions or corrections. The National Institute of Mental Health launched The Human Brain Project in 1993 to develop and support the new science of neuro-informatics. From this initiative, it became obvious what needed to be done. That's why we created the Sarah Jane Brain Virtual Center of Excellence an ecosystem for professionals and families dealing with PABI around the world and a vehicle to help implement the PABI Plan by establishing a model system for PABI.

Proper citation: Sarah Jane Brain Project (RRID:SCR_000620) 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://www.drugabuseresearchtraining.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on November 07, 2012. Decemeber 15, 2011 - Thank you for your interest in DrugAbuseResearchTraining.org. The site, courses, and resources are no longer available. Please send an email to inquiry (at) md-inc.com if you would like to be notified if the site or courses become available again. Introduction to Clinical Drug and Substance Abuse Research Methods is an online training program intended to introduce clinicians and substance abuse professionals to basic clinical research methods. The program is divided into four modules. Each module covers an entire topic and includes self-assessment questions, references, and online resources: * The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction * Biostatistics for Drug and Substance Abuse Research * Evaluating Drug and Substance Abuse Programs * Designing and Managing Drug and Substance Abuse Clinical Trials The learning objectives of this program are to help you: * Evaluate the benefits of alternative investigative approaches for answering important questions in drug abuse evaluation and treatment. * Define the proper levels of measurement and appropriate statistical methods for a clinical study. * Address common problems in data collection and analysis. * Anticipate key human subjects and ethical issues that arise in drug abuse studies. * Interpret findings from the drug abuse research literature and prepare a clinical research proposal. * Prepare research findings for internal distribution or publication in the peer reviewed literature. * Recognize drug addiction as a cyclical, chronic disease. * Understand and describe the brain circuits that are affected by addicting drugs, and explain to others the effects of major classes of addicting drugs on brain neurotransmitters. * Utilize new pharmacologic treatments to manage persons with drug addiction. Physicians can earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit and purchase a high resolution printable electronic CME certificate(view sample); non-physicians can purchase high resolution printable electronic certificate of course participation that references AMA PRA Category 1 credit (view sample). This program does not offer printed certificates.

Proper citation: Online Education for the International Research Community: AboutIntroduction to Clinical Drug and Substance Abuse Research Methods (RRID:SCR_000802) Copy   

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