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http://brainarchitecture.org/

Evolving portal that will provide interactive tools and resources to allow researchers, clinicians, and students to discover, analyze, and visualize what is known about the brain's organization, and what the evidence is for that knowledge. This project has a current experimental focus: creating the first brainwide mesoscopic connectivity diagram in the mouse. Related efforts for the human brain currently focus on literature mining and an Online Brain Atlas Reconciliation Tool. The primary goal of the Brain Architecture Project is to assemble available knowledge about the structure of the nervous system, with an ultimate emphasis on the human CNS. Such information is currently scattered in research articles, textbooks, electronic databases and datasets, and even as samples on laboratory shelves. Pooling the knowledge across these heterogeneous materials - even simply getting to know what we know - is a complex challenge that requires an interdisciplinary approach and the contributions and support of the greater community. Their approach can be divided into 4 major thrusts: * Literature Curation and Text Mining * Computational Analysis * Resource Development * Experimental Efforts

Proper citation: Brain Architecture Project (RRID:SCR_004283) Copy   

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http://www.braintumour.ca/

Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada is a dedicated team of volunteers, patients, survivors, family members, health care professionals and staff, determined to make the journey with a brain tumor one full of hope and support. We work collaboratively to serve the needs of those Canadians affected by all types of brain tumors. Information, education and support is available and research continues into the cause of and a cure for brain tumors. Every year, thousands of Canadians affected by brain tumors find emotional support and comfort while gaining a better understanding and knowledge of their disease through a range of programs and services available across the country. This includes: up-to-date brain tumor information material, numerous education events and support groups. Important brain tumor research is also supported through annual grants, a fellowship and the brain tumour tissue bank. We welcome donations, large or small. Charitable Registration #BN118816339RR0001

Proper citation: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada (RRID:SCR_004158) Copy   

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https://brainspan.org/

Atlas of developing human brain for studying transcriptional mechanisms involved in human brain development. One of the BrainSpan datasets, Exon microarray summarized to genes, is presented. It is a downloadable archive of files containing normalized RNA-Seq expression values for analysis.

Proper citation: BrainSpan (RRID:SCR_004219) Copy   

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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htm

Radio National''s weekly foray into all things mental a program (podcast) about the mind, brain and behavior, hosted by Lynne Malcolm (previously by Natasha Mitchell). From dreaming to depression, addiction to artificial intelligence, consciousness to coma, psychoanalysis to psychopathy, free will to forgetting ��All in the Mind��explores the human condition through the mind''s eye. All in the Mind brings together unexpected voices, themes and ideas and engages with both leading thinkers and personal stories. Psychology and human behavior are only part of the equation. The program''s scope is considerably broader and explores themes in science, religion, health, philosophy, education, history and pop culture, with the mind as the key focus.

Proper citation: All In The Mind (RRID:SCR_004240) Copy   

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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.

Proper citation: Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (RRID:SCR_004464) Copy   

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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.

Proper citation: National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (RRID:SCR_004460) Copy   

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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.

Proper citation: Brain Science Podcast (RRID:SCR_004491) Copy   

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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.

Proper citation: Alabama Head Injury Foundation (RRID:SCR_004580) Copy   

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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.northwestern.edu/index.html

The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center (CNADC) is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to conducting research to discover how the brain coordinates mental functions such as memory, language, attention, and emotion; transferring the benefits of this research to patients with brain diseases that impair cognitive function; and training researchers and clinicians who want to work in this field. The CNADC's mission is to investigate the neurological basis of cognitive function, to elucidate causes of dementia, and to ensure that the patients and their families are the beneficiaries of resultant discoveries. * Clinical Services: Neurobehavior and Memory Health Clinical Services * Annual Grant Opportunities: Annual Core Pilot Project Funding Opportunities * Research Areas & Faculty: Alzheimer's Disease / Primary Progressive Aphasia / Frontal Dementia, Brain Endowment (Brains are permanently stored, and requests for tissue for research purposes are submitted to Dr. Bigio for review by the Northwestern Alzheimer's Disease Center); Cognitive Brain Mapping Group, Volunteer For A Study * Fellowships: Neuropathology Fellowship, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship * Training Programs: Mechanisms of Aging and Dementia (M.A.D.) Training Program; Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition

Proper citation: Northwestern University Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimers Disease Center (RRID:SCR_012747) Copy   

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https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers

Portal for Alzheimer's disease that compiles, archives and disseminates information about current treatments, diagnostic tools and ongoing research for health professions, people with AD, their families and the public. The Center provides informational services and referrals for AD symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for patients; clinical trial information and literature searches for researchers; training materials and guidelines for caregivers; and Spanish language resources.

Proper citation: Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center (RRID:SCR_012787) Copy   

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http://umcd.humanconnectomeproject.org

Web-based repository and analysis site for connectivity matrices that have been derived from neuroimaging data including different imaging modalities, subject groups, and studies. Users can analyze connectivity matrices that have been shared publicly and upload their own matrices to share or analyze privately.

Proper citation: USC Multimodal Connectivity Database (RRID:SCR_012809) Copy   

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http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu

Portal to neuroanatomical information on the Web that helps you identify structures in the brain and provides a variety of information about each structure by porting you to the best of 1500 web pages at 100 other neuroscience sites. BrainInfo consists of three basic components: NeuroNames, a developing database of definitions of neuroanatomic structures in four species, their most common acronyms and their names in eight languages; NeuroMaps, a digital atlas system based on 3-D canonical stereotaxic atlases of rhesus macaque and mouse brains and programs that enable one to map data to standard surface and cross-sectional views of the brains for presentation and publication; and the NeuroMaps precursor: Template Atlas of the Primate Brain, a 2-D stereotaxic atlas of the longtailed (fascicularis) macaque brain that shows the locations of some 250 architectonic areas of macaque cortex. The NeuroMaps atlases will soon include a number of overlays showing the locations of cortical areas and other neuroscientific data in the standard frameworks of the macaque and mouse atlases. Viewers are encouraged to use NeuroNames as a stable source of unique standard terms and acronyms for brain structures in publications, illustrations and indexing systems; to use templates extracted from the NeuroMaps macaque and mouse brain atlases for presenting neuroscientific information in image format; and to use the Template Atlas for warping to MRIs or PET scans of the macaque brain to estimate the stereotaxic locations of structures.

Proper citation: BrainInfo (RRID:SCR_003142) Copy   

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