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http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-program-itp

NIA''s ITP is a multi-institutional study investigating treatments with the potential to exte nd lifespan and delay disease and dysfunction in mice. Priority consideration will be given to the treatments that are easily obtainable, reasonably priced, and can be delivered in the diet (preferred) or water. Interventions that require labor intensive forms of administration, such as daily injections or gavage, are not feasible within the design of the ITP. Treatments currently under study include: - Pharmaceuticals - Nutraceuticals - Foods - Diets - Dietary supplements - Plant extracts - Hormones - Peptides - Amino acids - Chelators - Redox agents - Other agents or mixtures of agents Although the mice involved in this study will be housed at the University of Michigan, the Jackson Laboratories, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, the project is designed to involve collaborations with investigators at any university, institute, or other organization that has ideas about pharmacological interventions that might decelerate aging and wishes to test these in a lifespan study of mice. Sponsors: This program is supported by the National Institute of Aging.

Proper citation: Interventions Testing Program (RRID:SCR_008266) Copy   

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http://www.utsa.edu/claibornelab/

The long-term goals of my research are to understand the relationship between neuronal structure and function, and to elucidate the factors that affect neuronal morphology and function over the lifespan of the mammal. Currently we are examining 1) the effects of synaptic activity on neuronal development; 2) the effects of estrogen on neuronal morphology and on learning and memory; and, 3) the effects of aging on neuronal structure and function. We have focused our efforts on single neurons in the hippocampal formation, a region that is critical for certain forms of learning and memory in rodents and humans. From the portal, you may click on a cell in your region of interest to see the complete database of cells from that region. You may also explore the Neuron Database: * Comparative Electrotonic Analysis of Three Classes of Rat Hippocampal Neurons. (Raw data available) * Quantitative, three-dimensional analysis of granule cell dendrites in the rat dentate gyrus. * Dendritic Growth and Regression in Rat Dentate Granule Cells During Late Postnatal Development.(Raw data available) * A light and electron microscopic analysis of the mossy fibers of the rat dentate gyrus.

Proper citation: University of Texas at San Antonio Laboratory of Professor Brenda Claiborne (RRID:SCR_008064) Copy   

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http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/departments/psychiatry_behavioralsciences/research/gsc/

The USC Geriatric Studies Center includes the State of California Alzheimer's Research Center of California and the National Institute of Aging funded clinical program of the USC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. It is staffed by USC faculty and physicians with expertise in Alzheimer's disease and age related memory loss. The Center provides evaluation, diagnosis and treatment recommendations, referral to caregiver services and support groups, and the opportunity to participate in clinical drug trials for memory problems.

Proper citation: USC Geriatric Studies Center/Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (RRID:SCR_008725) Copy   

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http://psychiatry.stanford.edu/alzheimer/

Portal for gerontology research with a variety of clinical, research and educational programs, with the aim of improving the lives of those affected by Alzheimer's Disease and memory losses associated with normal aging. The Center investigates the nature of Alzheimer's Disease, its progression over time, its response to treatments, and problems patients and caregivers experience in dealing with the changes that occur. It also conducts studies that look at changes that occur over the course of normal aging and have a Normal Aging Brain Donor Program. The Aging Clinical Research Center puts out a newsletter that showcases various projects and includes informative articles on dementia.

Proper citation: Stanford/VA Aging Clinical Research Center (RRID:SCR_008678) Copy   

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http://coins.mrn.org/

A web-based neuroimaging and neuropsychology software suite that offers versatile, automatable data upload/import/entry options, rapid and secure sharing of data among PIs, querying and export all data, real-time reporting, and HIPAA and IRB compliant study-management tools suitable to large institutions as well as smaller scale neuroscience and neuropsychology researchers. COINS manages over over 400 studies, more than 265,000 clinical neuropsychological assessments, and 26,000 MRI, EEG, and MEG scan sessions collected from 18,000 participants at over ten institutions on topics related to the brain and behavior. As neuroimaging research continues to grow, dynamic neuroinformatics systems are necessary to store, retrieve, mine and share the massive amounts of data. The Collaborative Informatics and Neuroimaging Suite (COINS) has been created to facilitate communication and cultivate a data community. This tool suite offers versatile data upload/import/entry options, rapid and secure sharing of data among PIs, querying of data types and assessments, real-time reporting, and study-management tools suitable to large institutions as well as smaller scale researchers. It manages studies and their data at the Mind Research Network, the Nathan Kline Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center (at) Hartford Hospital, and others. COINS is dynamic and evolves as the neuroimaging field grows. COINS consists of the following collaboration-centric tools: * Subject and Study Management: MICIS (Medical Imaging Computer Information System) is a centralized PostgreSQL-based web application that implements best practices for participant enrollment and management. Research site administrators can easily create and manage studies, as well as generate reports useful for reporting to funding agencies. * Scan Data Collection: An automated DICOM receiver collects, archives, and imports imaging data into the file system and COINS, requiring no user intervention. The database also offers scan annotation and behavioral data management, radiology review event reports, and scan time billing. * Assessment Data Collection: Clinical data gathered from interviews, questionnaires, and neuropsychological tests are entered into COINS through the web application called Assessment Manager (ASMT). ASMT's intuitive design allows users to start data collection with little or no training. ASMT offers several options for data collection/entry: dual data entry, for paper assessments, the Participant Portal, an online tool that allows subjects to fill out questionnaires, and Tablet entry, an offline data entry tool. * Data Sharing: De-identified neuroimaging datasets with associated clinical-data, cognitive-data, and associated meta-data are available through the COINS Data Exchange tool. The Data Exchange is an interface that allows investigators to request and share data. It also tracks data requests and keeps an inventory of data that has already been shared between users. Once requests for data have been approved, investigators can download the data directly from COINS.

Proper citation: Mind Research Network - COINS (RRID:SCR_000805) Copy   

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http://165.124.81.52/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on January 08, 2013. A consortium of three facilities whose purpose is to establish, characterize, and distribute novel mutant mouse models with neural and/or behavioral phenotypes, and distribute them to the worldwide research community. Interested scientists are able to obtain information about mouse lines at all three sites in a single unified database. GOALS * Increase genomic and genetic tools for functional gene identification * Provide mice with mutations that alter the nervous system or behavior * Build collaborations between geneticists and neuroscientists The consortium is made up of three mutagenesis and phenotypic screening facilities, focused on identifying alterations in nervous system function and behavior, and established by NIH. They are the Neurogenomics Project at Northwestern University, the Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility at The Jackson Laboratory, and the Neuromutagenesis Project of the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium. The NIH Neurogenomics Project at Northwestern University is directed by Dr. Joseph S. Takahashi, who also acts as the Director of the Neuromice.org consortium. Chemical mutagenesis is used to induce mutations throughout the genome and combined with phenotypic screens to detect mice with mutations. In order to maximize the genomic coverage and recover both dominant and recessive mutations, a dominant G1 screen and a recessive G3 screen are utilized. Phenotypic screens focus on five primary domains: learning and memory, behavioral responses to stress, responses to psychostimulants, circadian rhythmicity, and vision. The Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility at the Jackson Laboratory is directed by Dr. Wayne N. Frankel. The Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility is using a three-generation backcross breeding scheme to produce homozygous mutants and will thus recover dominant, semidominant, and recessive mutations. In addition, some mutagenesis will be done in ES cells followed by two generations of breeding. Phenotypic screens focus on identifying mutations affecting: motor function, seizure threshold, hearing, vision, and neurodevelopment. The Neuromutagenesis Project of the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium (TMGC) involves researchers throughout the state of Tennessee, under the direction of Dr. Daniel Goldowitz, Ph.D., at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. TMGC also includes researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical College, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the University of Memphis. The Project is using regional mutagenesis, covering regions on chromosomes 10, 14, 15, 19, and X, thus including approximately 15 of the genome in the screened region. Phenotypic screens include: motor and sensory function, learning and memory, neurohistology, aging, alcohol response, abused drug response, visual function, and social behavior. Neuromice.org has stopped taking orders online but mutants are orderable please contact the originating center for availability and pricing details. Live targeted mutant Fragile X model mice are now available for distribution.

Proper citation: neuromice (RRID:SCR_002993) Copy   

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http://pennadc.org

A national Alzhiemer's disease research center funded by the National Institute on Aging, and the research arm of the Penn Memory Center.

Proper citation: Penn Alzheimer's Disease Center (RRID:SCR_004444) Copy   

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http://www.uky.edu/coa/ADC

Alzheimer's Disease Center that serves as the focal point for all Alzheimer's disease-related activities at the University of Kentucky and the Commonwealth of Kentucky providing an environment and core resources that catalyze innovative research, outreach, education, and clinical programs. Their ADC plans to build on its historic strengths and capitalize on emerging opportunities to provide an infrastructure that supports research designed to translate knowledge into therapeutic strategies for AD. They focus on two interrelated themes: Transitions and Translation. Their overall emphasis is to more effectively bridge the gap between basic research and clinical studies by facilitating translational efforts. They also carefully characterize transitions across the spectrum of cognitive impairment (normal/ preclinical AD/ MCI/ dementia), with focus on definition of early disease, and continue to support neuropathology as the bedrock of our center. The Alzheimer Disease Center's 2006-2011 grant award from the National Institute on Aging consists of five cores: * Administrative Core * Clinical Core * Biostatistics and Data Management Core * Neuropathology Core * Education & Information Transfer Core

Proper citation: University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Center (RRID:SCR_008767) Copy   

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http://alzheimers.med.umich.edu/

An Alzheimer's disease center which aims to conduct and promote research on Alzheimer's disease and enhance public and professional understanding of dementia through education and outreach efforts. The MADC promotes clinical research on memory and aging which involves the direct use of research volunteers, biomarkers, and other clinical data collected through the University of Michigan Memory and Aging Project.

Proper citation: Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Center (RRID:SCR_008773) Copy   

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http://www.physionet.org/

Collection of dissemination and exchange recorded biomedical signals and open-source software for analyzing them. Provides facilities for cooperative analysis of data and evaluation of proposed new algorithm. Providies free electronic access to PhysioBank data and PhysioToolkit software. Offers service and training via on-line tutorials to assist users at entry and more advanced levels. In cooperation with annual Computing in Cardiology conference, PhysioNet hosts series of challenges, in which researchers and students address unsolved problems of clinical or basic scientific interest using data and software provided by PhysioNet. All data included in PhysioBank, and all software included in PhysioToolkit, are carefully reviewed. Researchers are further invited to contribute data and software for review and possible inclusion in PhysioBank and PhysioToolkit. Please review guidelines before submitting material.

Proper citation: PhysioNet (RRID:SCR_007345) Copy   

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http://senselab.med.yale.edu

The SenseLab Project is a long-term effort to build integrated, multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems. It was founded in 1993 as part of the original Human Brain Project, which began the development of neuroinformatics tools in support of neuroscience research. It is now part of the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). The SenseLab project involves novel informatics approaches to constructing databases and database tools for collecting and analyzing neuroscience information, using the olfactory system as a model, with extension to other brain systems. SenseLab contains seven related databases that support experimental and theoretical research on the membrane properties: CellPropDB, NeuronDB, ModelDB, ORDB, OdorDB, OdorMapDB, BrainPharmA pilot Web portal that successfully integrates multidisciplinary neurocience data.

Proper citation: SenseLab (RRID:SCR_007276) Copy   

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http://www.catstests.com/Product05.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. CATs Card Sort is a free, general purpose card sorting program which allows the user to design sorting tasks similar to those described by Vigotsky (1934), Weigel (1941), and Grant and Berg (1948). Card sorting tasks have been shown to be particularly sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction, but have also shown sensitivity to motor disorders, schizophrenia, chronic alcoholism, aging, and attention deficit disorder. The CATs Card Sort package provides extensive flexibility in the development of stimulus cards, allowing the experimenter to define the relevant dimensions of cards in terms of figures, letters or words, figure/letter/word color, card color, figure/letter numerosity, and a user defined dimension. Considerable flexibility is also provided in designing lists of to be sorted cards, sort criteria, and the criteria for sort classification shift. The package also provides limited analysis capabilities as described by Grant and Berg (1948). However, as with all CATs packages raw data can be copied to the clipboard in a format acceptable for import into commonly available spreadsheets such as Excel allowing the user to design analysis routines appropriate to their needs.

Proper citation: Colorado Assessment Tests - Card Sort (RRID:SCR_007331) Copy   

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http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/NIHPD-obj1

An unbiased standard magnetic resonance imaging template brain volume for pediatric data from the 4.5 to 18.5y age range. These volumes were created using data from 324 children enrolled in the NIH-funded MRI study of normal brain development (Almli et al., 2007, Evans and Group 2006). Tools for using these atlases can be found in the Software section. To view the atlases online, click on the appropriate JIV2 link in the Download section. You can download templates constructed for different age ranges. For each age range you will get an average T1w, T2w, PDw maps normalized between 0 and 100 and tissue probability maps, with values between 0 and 1. Also each age range includes a binary brain mask.

Proper citation: NIHPD Objective 1 atlases (4.5 - 18.5y) (RRID:SCR_008794) Copy   

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http://ccr.coriell.org/Sections/Collections/CSCB/Default.aspx

Biospecimen repository that provides scientists with the opportunity to bank their pluripotent stem cell lines and develops in-house induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines for distribution. They have developed core capabilities to maintain, characterize, bank, and distribute important stem cell resources. The SCB performs extensive identification and characterization testing for all submitted human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) and mouse embryonic stem cell (mES) lines. The identification and quality control measures include karyotype analysis, microsatellite analysis for parental cell line identity matching, sterility testing, and assessment of viability after cryopreservation. Pluripotency characterizations performed by SCB vary depending upon the distributing repository. * NIGMS iPSCs: Surface antigen expression, Embryoid body formation, Pluritest Gene Expression assay * NINDS iPSCs: Surface antigen expression, Embryoid body formation * NIA mES: Surface antigen expression, Embryoid body formation, Transgene induction Each characterized human iPSC line and mES line released for distribution is provided with a Certificate of Analysis, which includes information regarding characterization and quality of the line, images and links to original publications. The human iPSCs distributed by Coriell are strictly for research purposes and cannot be used in human subjects. All terms described in the Material Transfer Agreement (NIGMS and NINDS Repositories) or Assurance Form (NIA Repository) for the stem cell line must be agreed to prior to using stem cell lines from Coriell.

Proper citation: Coriell Institute Stem Cell Biobank (RRID:SCR_008745) Copy   

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http://www.mayo.edu/research/centers-programs/alzheimers-disease-research-center

A clinical research department that specializes in the study of Alzheimer's disease. The Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center conducts many types of research studies related to dementia, as well as normal or successful aging. The purpose of the center is to provide care for dementia patients and promote research and education on Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias.

Proper citation: Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (RRID:SCR_008727) Copy   

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http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Tracula

Software tool developed for automatically reconstructing a set of major white matter pathways in the brain from diffusion weighted images using probabilistic tractography. This method utilizes prior information on the anatomy of the pathways from a set of training subjects. By incorporating this prior knowledge in the reconstruction procedure, our method obviates the need for manual intervention with the tract solutions at a later stage and thus facilitates the application of tractography to large studies. The trac-all script is used to preprocess raw diffusion data (correcting for eddy current distortion and B0 field inhomogenities), register them to common spaces, model and reconstruct major white matter pathways (included in the atlas) without any manual intervention. trac-all may be used to execute all the above steps or parts of it depending on the dataset and user''''s preference for analyzing diffusion data. Alternatively, scripts exist to execute chunks of each processing pipeline, and individual commands may be run to execute a single processing step. To explore all the options in running trac-all please refer to the trac-all wiki. In order to use this script to reconstruct tracts in Diffusion images, all the subjects in the dataset must have Freesurfer Recons.

Proper citation: TRACULA (RRID:SCR_013152) Copy   

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http://research.mssm.edu/cnic/

Center to advance research and training in mathematical, computational and modern imaging approaches to understanding the brain and its functions. Software tools and associated reconstruction data produced in the center are available. Researchers study the relationships between neural function and structure at levels ranging from the molecular and cellular, through network organization of the brain. This involves the development of new computational and analytic tools for imaging and visualization of 3-D neural morphology, from the gross topologic characteristics of the dendritic arbor to the fine structure of spines and their synapses. Numerical simulations of neural mechanisms based on these structural data are compared with in-vivo and in-vitro electrophysiological recordings. The group also develops new theoretical and analytic approaches to exploring the function of neural models of working memory. The goal of this analytic work is to combine biophysically realistic models and simulations with reduced mathematical models that capture essential dynamical behaviors while reproducing the functionally important features of experimental data. Research areas include: Imaging Studies, Volume Integration, Visualization Techniques, Medial Axis Extraction, Spine Detection and Classification, Applications of Rayburst, Analysis of Spatially Complex Structures, Computational Modeling, Mathematical and Analytic Studies

Proper citation: Computational Neurobiology and Imaging Center (RRID:SCR_013317) Copy   

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http://healthybrain.umn.edu/

Research forum portal to address brain status by acquiring comprehensive, multimodal data from healthy humans across the lifespan to characterize brain status, assess its change over time, and associate composite descriptors of brain status. Specifically, the measurements are acquired noninvasively by existing neuroimaging technologies (structural MRI, functional MRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, diffusion MRI, and magnetoencephalography); in addition, genetic, cognitive, language, and lifestyle data are acquired. Goals: * Derive the Brain Health Index- An integrative assessment of brain status derived from multimodal measurements of brain structure, function, and chemistry. * Continue acquiring data to construct the first-ever databank on brain, cognitive, language and genetic measurements for healthy people across the lifespan. * Provide a novel and unique dataset by which to: characterize brain status, assess its change over time, and associate it with genetic makeup, cognitive function, and language abilities. * Forecast future brain health and disease based on current measurements and guide physicians towards new interventions and evaluate interventions as they develop. * Extend to siblings and other family members to further assess the genetic influences and inheritability.

Proper citation: HBP: Healthy Brain Project (RRID:SCR_013137) Copy   

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http://aging.ucsd.edu/news.php

A list of articles published related to aging produced by the Center for Healthy Aging, Stein Institute for Research on Aging.

Proper citation: Stein Institute for Research on Aging News (RRID:SCR_003760) Copy   

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http://www.sharmuk.org/

A not for profit organization to accelerate research into aging by sharing resources: providing access to cost and time effective, aged murine tissue through a biorepository and database of live ageing colonies, as well as promoting the networking of researchers and dissemination of knowledge through its online collaborative environment; MiCEPACE. ShARM will provide valuable resources for the scientific community while helping to reduce the number of animals used in vital research into aging. The biobank of tissue and networking facility will enable scientists to access shared research material and data. By making use of collective resources, the number of individual animals required in research experiments can be minimized. The project also has the added value of helping to reduce the costs of research by connecting scientists, pooling resource and combining knowledge. ShARM works in partnership with MRC Harwell and the Centre for Intergrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA).

Proper citation: ShARM (RRID:SCR_003120) Copy   

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