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http://www.essentialtremor.us/

Finding a cure for any neurological disorder begins with the scientific study of the disorder''s causes, processes, and development in the brain. For essential tremor (ET), rigorous study of this kind had not been undertaken until 2003, when the Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (ETCBR) was established at Columbia University. For the past five years, brain tissue from ET donors has been collected, processed and compared alongside age-matched control brains at the ETCBR, and already several significant findings have been made. However, there is still much to learn and a severe shortage of ET brains for scientific study. If you have been diagnosed with essential tremor, donating your brain tissue in the hours immediately after your death is of utmost importance in providing crucial information about what causes ET. Direct analysis of the shape and number of nerve cells and their content will provide medical researchers with the information they need in order to understand this complex illness. By advancing our medical knowledge of ET, the gift of brain tissue is a central piece of the puzzle in the search to develop better treatments and find a cure.

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http://www.na-mic.org/

The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers, and medical investigators who develop computational tools for the analysis and visualization of medical image data. The purpose of the Center is to provide the infrastructure and environment for the development of computational algorithms and open-source technologies, and then oversee the training and dissemination of these tools to the medical research community. Electronic resources provided by NA-MIC include software, data, tutorials, presentations, and more.

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http://www.mscenter.org/research/tissue-bank/

Scientists throughout the world depend on the Rocky Mountain MS Center Tissue Bank to supply high quality human brain tissue and cerebral spinal fluid to support their research. Funded in part by the National MS Society, the Tissue Bank is one of only four MS-related tissue banks in the nation. The Tissue Bank has distributed specimens to more than 160 investigators worldwide and over 1,600 people have consented to be donors after death. Tissue banks provide a unique bridge between those who live with MS and the scientific community. Studies conducted with samples from the Center have led to several important discoveries and 130 publications. While deeply personal, the decision to donate has far-reaching effects as scientists unlock the mysteries of multiple sclerosis. If you would like to donate, arrangements must be made in advance because it is important that tissue is taken within a few hours of death. For more information on making a donation, visit the How To Donate section of this website and contact the Rocky Mountain MS Center Tissue Bank at 303.788.4030 x111.

Proper citation: Rocky Mountain MS Center Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_004361) Copy   

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http://www.childhoodbraintumor.org/

The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF), an all-volunteer organization, was founded in 1994 by families, friends and physicians of children with brain tumors. Our mission is to raise funds for scientific research and heighten public awareness of this most devastating disease and to improve prognosis and quality of life for those that are affected. Founded and incorporated in Virginia, relocated to Maryland in 1998, the Foundation (a 501(c) (3), strives to meet the goals of our mission. Friends, families, and physicians brought CBTF together and are dedicated to serving the needs of families and children with brain tumors, in hopes of improving the quality of life and find cures for pediatric brain tumors. Annually, CBTF funds basic science or clinical research for pediatric brain tumors; conferences and other programs. We provide informational materials on our website and mail other information (nationally and internationally) upon request. The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) has funded state-of-the-art research and supported conferences for pediatric brain tumors over the past 17 years. Grants submissions are reviewed thoroughly by our dedicated renown team of scientific advisors to ensure that CBTF selects the highest quality research for pediatric brain tumors. Each year, we receive so many outstanding applications and it is through the support of private and public donations that this is all possible. With your support, together, we will strive to find a cure for children''s brain tumors.

Proper citation: Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (RRID:SCR_004421) Copy   

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http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/

Podcast, hosted by Dr. Ginger Campbell, featuring the latest books about neuroscience as well as interviews with leading scientists from around the world. In this podcast, she shares recent discoveries from the world of neuroscience in a way that people of all backgrounds can enjoy. Dr. Campbell is an experienced emergency physician with a long-standing interest in mind-body medicine, the brain, and consciousness. She believes that understanding how the brain works gives us insight into what makes us human. She is also committed to showing how the scientific method has unraveled many long-standing mysteries. Brain Science Transcripts are also available.

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https://wiki-bsse.ethz.ch/display/HSC/HelioScan+Home

HelioScan is a versatile control software for microscopes written in the intuitive graphical programming language LabVIEW. It solves a number of problems observed with custom-built image acquisition systems by providing the following features: * Extendability: both hardware components and software functionality are encapsulated in exchangeable, software components. Additional components can be implemented easily and plugged in at run-time. Components can be independently developed, allowing multiple developers to work in parallel. * Flexibility: Components are independently configurable; each component can have an unlimited number of configurations. * Understandability: The LabVIEW code is well-structured, commented and documented. * High speed: The software supports FPGA-based hardware that enables intelligent and extremely fast signal acquisition and generation. FPGA logic can be easily programmed using LabVIEW. * Tailored to in vivo brain imaging: The software is especially suited for 2-photon Calcium imaging, but can in principle be used for any kind of microscopy. The out-of-the-box software supports different imaging modalities (camera, galvanometric scan mirrors, acusto-optic deflectors) and imaging modes (camera video acquisition, intrinsic optical imaging, two-photon frame scan and tilted frame scan, 2D line scan, 3D spiral scan) and can easily be extended to other imaging modalities (e.g., resonance scanners), imaging modes (e.g., 2D and 3D arbitrary line scans) and associated hardware (e.g., stimulation devices). * Open file-format with extensible meta-data schema: HelioScan saves data in the OME-TIFF file format, which contains image data as multipage TIFF and meta-data as human-readable XML in the TIFF description tag according to the OME schema.

Proper citation: HelioScan (RRID:SCR_004494) Copy   

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http://www.brainarchitecture.org/mouse-home

An atlas project whose goal is to enerate brainwide maps of inter-regional neural connectivity that specify the inputs and outputs of every brain region, at a "mesoscopic" level of analysis. A 3D injection viewer is used to view the mouse brain. To determine the outputs of a brain region, anterograde tracers are used which are taken up by neurons locally ("the input"), then transported actively down the axons to the "output regions." The whole brain is then sliced thinly, and each slice is digitally imaged. These 2-D images are reconstructed in 3D. The majority of the resulting 3-D brain image is unlabeled. Only the injected region and its output regions have tracer in them, allowing for identification of this small fraction of the connectivity map. This procedure is repeated identically, to account for individual variability. To determine the inputs to the same brain region as above, a retrograde tracer is injected in the same stereotaxic location ("the input"), and the process is repeated. In order to accumulate data from different mice (each of whom has a slightly different brain shape and size), 3-D spatial normalization is performed using registration algorithms. These gigapixel images of whole-brain sections can be zoomed to show individual neurons and their processes, providing a "virtual microscope." Each sampled brain is represented in about 500 images, each image showing an optical section through a 20 micron-thick slice of brain tissue. A multi-resolution viewer permits users to journey through each brain, following the pathways taken through three-dimensional brain space by tracer-labeled neuronal pathways. A key point is that at the mid-range "mesoscopic" scale, the team expects to assemble a picture of connections that are stereotypical and probably genetically determined in a species-specific manner. By dividing the volume of a hemisphere of the mouse brain into 250 equidistant, predefined grid-points, and administering four different kinds of tracer injections at each grid point -- in different animals of the same sex and age a complete wiring diagram that will be stitched together in "shotgun" fashion from the full dataset.

Proper citation: Mouse Brain Architecture Project (RRID:SCR_004683) Copy   

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http://www.tbregistry.org/

A non-profit organization that promotes research on hearing and balance disorders. The Registry database allows researchers to perform simple searches to locate specimens of interest. The results show the laboratories where specimens that match the query are located. Investigators should contact the individual laboratories for studying the specimens or for access to the sections. The Registry also serves the public and the scientific community through the dissemination of public information on temporal bone donation and research, enrollment of temporal bone donors, publication of The Registry, a newsletter for researchers, conservation of existing human temporal bone collections, and professional educational activities for physicians and scientists.

Proper citation: National Temporal Bone Pathology Resource Registry (RRID:SCR_004705) Copy   

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http://www.ahif.org/

The Alabama Head Injury Foundation (AHIF) was founded in 1983 to increase public awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and to stimulate the development of supportive services. Today, AHIF is among the largest state brain injury associations in the nation with model programs and statewide services. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for people who have survived traumatic brain injuries and for their families. Whether the injury is mild or severe the life of the injured person and their family is changed forever. The impact can be both emotionally and financially devastating. AHIF provides the information to help clients and families understand the results of injury. AHIF helps access available resources and provides services and programs which meet the unique needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as well as spinal cord injury (SCI) in certain programs.

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http://www.braintumorkids.org/

Established in 1983 in Atlanta, GA, the Brain Tumor Foundation for Children (BTFC) was the first nonprofit organization in the United States to focus on pediatric brain tumor disease. The mission of the Brain Tumor Foundation for Children is to provide financial assistance, social support, and information for families of children with brain and spinal cord tumors; fund research projects that improve treatment options and search for a cure; and raise public awareness of the disease and advocate on behalf of children who are affected.

Proper citation: Brain Tumor Foundation For Children (RRID:SCR_004735) Copy   

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http://www.polytrauma.va.gov/

A network of specialized rehabilitation programs serving Veterans and Service Members with both combat and civilian related Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and polytrauma. Services available include: interdisciplinary evaluation and treatment, development of a comprehensive plan of care, case management, patient and family education and training, psychosocial support, and application of advanced rehabilitation treatments and prosthetic technologies.

Proper citation: VA Polytrauma / TBI System of Care (RRID:SCR_004697) Copy   

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http://btan.org/

The Brain Tumor Action Network is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established to bring awareness to the general public about brain tumors and to educate and empower brain tumor survivors, their families and friends. We foster grassroots advocacy on federal and state legislative issues affecting brain tumor survivors, their families and friends by providing information on brain tumor-related public issues and effective advocacy. BTAN has the following goals: * To encourage those living with brain tumors, their families and friends to become advocates for brain tumor awareness. * To foster grassroots advocacy on federal and state legislative issues affecting brain tumor survivors, their families and friends by providing information (and training) on brain tumor related public issues and effective advocacy. * To work independently and in collaboration with other brain tumor related organizations on behalf of the brain tumor community family. * To increase brain tumor awareness nationally through the Hidden Under Our Hats, National Brain Tumor Awareness Project in Washington, DC and at various treatment centers, conferences and fund raisers. * To raise funds to support specific research projects. * To create a PILOT respite care program for brain tumor survivors and their families at Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute (Tampa, FL). The respite care fund would assist brain tumor patients and their family members with additional care and support from home health care workers.

Proper citation: Brain Tumor Action Network (RRID:SCR_004733) Copy   

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http://www.brain.riken.jp/en/

RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) has a mission to produce innovative research and technology leading to scientific discoveries of the brain. In addition, BSI aims to develop domestic and international brain researchers by creating an environment that will integrate various intellectual disciplines and from that convergence find solutions that will ultimately benefit society in the realms of medicine, engineering, business, and education. In striving toward this goal, BSI has become a leading international center for brain research with a reputation for discovery, innovation, training, and globalization of the scientific enterprise. Brain science is valuable not only for the advancement of science but also because it can greatly impact our society and economy. To meet these expectations, the Brain Science Institute (BSI) was established in 1997 as part of RIKEN, an independent research institution supported by the Japanese government.

Proper citation: RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RRID:SCR_004796) Copy   

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https://www.bannerhealth.com/research/locations/sun-health-institute/programs/body-donation

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. An autopsy-based, research-devoted brain bank, biobank and biospecimen bank that derives its human donors from the Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease (AZSAND), a longitudinal clinicopathological study of the health and diseases of elderly volunteers living in Maricopa county and metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Their function is studied during life and their organs and tissue after death. To date, they have concentrated their studies on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, heart disease and cancer. They share the banked tissue, biomaterials and biospecimens with qualified researchers worldwide. Registrants with suitable scientific credentials will be allowed access to a database of available tissue linked to relevant clinical information, and will allow tissue requests to be initiated., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Brain and Body Donation Program (RRID:SCR_004822) Copy   

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http://www.braintumor.org/

National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) is a nonprofit organization committed to finding a cure for brain tumors. We aggressively drive strategic research, advocate for public policies that meet the critical needs of the brain tumor community, and provide patient information. Headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco, California and Wilmington, Delaware, we host activities throughout the United States. Formed in 2008 by the merger of two leading organizations that had served the brain tumor community, the National Brain Tumor Foundation and the Brain Tumor Society, the National Brain Tumor Society is now the largest brain tumor nonprofit organization in the country. Both legacy organizations had been formed in the 1980s by parents and other people who were committed to increasing both research funding and access to resources specific to brain tumors. In 2010, the Kelly Heinz-Grundner Foundation, a Delaware-based organization, joined NBTS as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Founded in 2005, after the death of Kelly Heinz-Grundner to a brain tumor, the group has contributed to NBTS''s efforts to pursue research and public policies that benefit the brain tumor community. NBTS grant programs are effective for academic researchers, inclusive of industry expertise, and promising for the patient community. All funding is open to both the domestic and international research communities. The Innovation Research Grant Program supports catalytic transformative projects that will significantly move the field forward. These may include out-of-the-box projects or research that is critical to move therapies down the pipeline. Research that represents an incremental advance is not considered innovative. NBTS will accept Innovation Letters of Intent throughout the year. Researchers in academic or industry labs and at all stages of their career may be funded through this program.

Proper citation: National Brain Tumor Society (RRID:SCR_004744) Copy   

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http://www.floridabraintumor.com/homepage.htm

The mission of the Florida Brain Tumor Association (FBTA) is to provide hope, support and education to brain tumor survivors, their families and friends; to conquer brain tumors by funding research into their causes and cures; and to enrich the quality of life of those touched by brain tumors. In October, 1991, the Florida Brain Tumor Association (formerly South Florida Brain Tumor Association) began due to a desperate need from brain tumor survivors and families who were searching for support and a safe place to share their life changing experiences. Beginning in Boca Raton, Florida, as a grass roots organization and a handful of people, the first support group was conceived. Today, there are many additional FBTA support groups, from coast to coast in the state of Florida. The Florida Brain Tumor Association (FBTA) has become a major force in the brain tumor community. We host many fundraisers yearly, donating funds for research to brain tumor centers. The FBTA has hosted over 20 three day conferences, seminars and meetings, attracting thousands of survivors, families and health care professionals in the United States and Canada. Many of the most renowned physicians in the world travel from far and near to present at FBTA conferences. We are proud and grateful for their commitment and dedication to our cause. The FBTA is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations. We are the only organization of this kind, relying on the strength and dedication of our members, who are brain tumor survivors, family members and friends. Our Medical Advisory Board is also voluntary; we are very thankful to them for their generous gifts of time.

Proper citation: Florida Brain Tumor Association (RRID:SCR_004739) Copy   

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http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/talks/brodmann/brodmann.html

Reference atlas of Brodmann Areas in the Human Brain with an Emphasis on Vision and Language. Other Pages include: Flat Brodmann Maps, Brodmann Area Names (with locational Descriptions), Flat Visual Area Maps, Language Areas, PopUp Gyri Maps

Proper citation: Brodmann Areas in the Human Brain with an Emphasis on Vision and Language (RRID:SCR_004857) Copy   

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http://www.pencerbraintrust.com/

The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust is a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to make a difference in the quality of life of people living with brain tumors. This registered charity is the primary source of funding for The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Tumor Centre, and carries out annual fundraising events to support its'' ongoing research and patient care activities. The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Tumor Centre is located in Toronto, Canada at the world-renowned Princess Margaret Hospital. The Centre provides multidisciplinary care, treatment, support, and education for brain tumor patients and their families, and promotes brain tumor research in the hopes of one day finding a cure for brain cancer. All of this is made possible through your very generous donations.

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http://www.pbtfus.org/

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (PBTF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating childhood brain tumors and providing support to families. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization that seeks to * find the cause of and cure for childhood brain tumors by supporting medical research * increase public awareness about the severity and prevalence of childhood brain tumors * aid in the early detection and treatment of childhood brain tumors * support a national database on all primary brain tumors * provide educational and emotional support for children and families affected by this life-threatening disease. As the world''s largest non-governmental source of funding for childhood brain tumor research, we''re dedicated to not only eradicating this disease, but to providing support to families. Our educational resources deliver comfort and hope to families in need of information, and our college scholarship program gives brain tumor survivors a boost for the future. Through our efforts to raise public awareness, more attention has been focused on this deadly disease. Whether addressing congressional briefings or funding international conferences, the PBTF is an unwavering advocate. Together, we''re making a difference in the lives of children with brain tumors. And with your continued help, we will cure the kids!

Proper citation: Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (RRID:SCR_004755) Copy   

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http://www.neurosci.ucsd.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 31, 2016. The Laboratory of Experimental Neuropathology is engaged in the study of neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and the dementia of HIV encephalitis. It contains a large bank of materials available to fellow investigators including images, publications, and lab safety. Fellow Investigators and Collaborators may request materials from the brain bank. Technologies employed by the laboratory include immunocytochemistry, neurochemistry, molecular genetics, transgenic models of disease, and imaging by scanning laser confocal microscopy.

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