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http://fmri.wfubmc.edu/software/PickAtlas

A software toolbox that provides a method for generating Region of Interest (ROI) masks based on the Talairach Daemon database. The atlases include Brodmann area, Lobar, Hemisphere, Anatomic Label (gyral anatomy), and Tissue type. The atlases have been extended to the vertex in MNI space, and corrected for the precentral gyrus anomaly. Additional atlases (including non-human atlases) can be added without difficulty., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: WFU PickAtlas (RRID:SCR_007378) Copy   

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http://brainspan.org/

Atlas of developing human brain for studying transcriptional mechanisms involved in human brain development. Consists of RNA sequencing and exon microarray data profiling up to sixteen cortical and subcortical structures across full course of human brain development, high resolution neuroanatomical transcriptional profiles of about 300 distinct structures spanning entire brain for four midgestional prenatal specimens, in situ hybridization image data covering selected genes and brain regions in developing and adult human brain, reference atlas in full color with high resolution anatomic reference atlases of prenatal (two stages) and adult human brain along with supporting histology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) data.

Proper citation: Allen Human Brain Atlas: BrainSpan (Atlas of the Developing Brain) (RRID:SCR_008083) Copy   

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http://neuroinformatics.usc.edu/

The USC Brain Project is engaged in the effort to develop new tools and methodologies for neuroinformatics in modeling neural mechanisms of visuomotor coordination and exploring the evolution of the human language-ready brain, as well as conducting work in both neural modeling and database construction in relation to rehabilitation after stroke. Sponsors: USCBP is funded by the University of Southern California.

Proper citation: University of Southern California Brain Project (RRID:SCR_008044) Copy   

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http://brainconnection.positscience.com/

An educational site providing accessible information about how the brain works and how people learn

Proper citation: Brain Connection (RRID:SCR_008315) Copy   

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http://nips.cc/

The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. Neural information processing is a field which benefits from a combined view of biological, physical, mathematical, and computational sciences. The primary focus of the NIPS Foundation is the presentation of a continuing series of professional meetings known as the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, held over the years at various locations in the United States and Canada.

Proper citation: NIPS - Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (RRID:SCR_001998) Copy   

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http://hendrix.ei.dtu.dk/software/mriwarp/mriwarp.html

Warping tool for intersubject registration of brain images consisting of C functions for Unix systems plus Matlab visualization utility functions. Apart from warping there are also (command line) functions for ANALYZE header information, mirroring, translation, subsampling. The package cannot only be used as a preprocessing step in function neuroimaging but also as a step in deformation-based morphometry.

Proper citation: MRIWarp (RRID:SCR_002072) Copy   

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http://sccn.ucsd.edu/

Computational neuroscience center that observes and models how functional activities in multiple brain areas interact dynamically to support human cognition, creativity and social interaction. Center research involves development computational methods and software, experimental methods and equipment, collection and analysis of human cognitive experiments, and collaborations to analyze data collected by other groups in such experiments. The Center has a 72-channel EEG recording system customized for use in the fMRI environment, and a very-high density Biosemi Active Two active-electrode EEG system, rapidly configurable either as a 256-channel system for a single subject or as two 136-channel systems for recording from two subjects simultaneously. In addition, UCSD now has a 306-channel MEG plus 128-channel EEG system (Neuromag/Elektra). Projects in the Center include studies of human cognitive processes including attention and memory, role of the anterior/posterior cingulate, time perception and emotional expression. Data acquisition includes high-density EEG, concurrent EEG and fMRI recording and analysis, and face video processing. Current analysis approaches include independent component and time-frequency analysis.

Proper citation: Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_001933) 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.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://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/S5/

Sectional atlas featuring sections of the spinal cord and brain for a neuroanatomy course offered by Temple University. Labels may be turned on and off.

Proper citation: Sectional Atlas of Human Brain and Spinal Cord (RRID:SCR_000799) Copy   

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http://kesm.cs.tamu.edu

A web-based, light-weight 3D volume viewer that serves large volumes (typically the whole brain) of high-resolution mouse brain images (~1.5 TB per brain, ~1 um resolution) from the Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope (KESM), invented by Bruce H. McCormick. Currently, KESMBA serves the following data sets: * Mouse: Whole-brain-scale Golgi (acquired 2008 spring): neuronal morphology: Choe et al. (2009) * Mouse: Whole-brain India Ink (acquired 2008 spring): vascular network: Choe et al. (2009); Mayerich et al. (2011); * Mouse: Whole-brain Golgi (acquired 2011 summer): neuronal morphology: Choe et al. (2011); Chung et al. (2011); * Mouse: Whole-brain Nissl (acquired 2009-2010 winter): somata (Choe et al. 2010) (Coming soon) They will ship you the full data set on a hard drive if you provide them with the hard drive and shipping cost.

Proper citation: KESM brain atlas (RRID:SCR_001559) Copy   

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https://lcn.salk.edu/WSMain.html

The Salk Institute's Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience (LCN) is dedicated to the study of the neural and genetic underpinnings of language and cognition. The LCN organizes its resources into two research foci: Linking Gene, Brain, and Cognition, and Language, Modality and the Brain. Linking Gene, Brain, and Cognition: Behavioral Neurogenetics: - This research is designed to increase the understanding of genetically based disorders, to investigate the consequences of genetic alterations on the development of the brain, and to explore the resulting alteration of cognitive capabilities. Language, Modality, and the Brain: - The focus of this research is to obtain a greater understanding of how language and cognition are represented in the brain. Sponsors: This resource is supported by LCN.

Proper citation: Salk Institute for Medical Research: Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_001851) Copy   

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http://qnl.bu.edu/obart

Tool that provides an interactive method to examine quantitative relationships between brain regions defined by different digital atlases or parcellation methods. Its current focus is for human brain imaging, though the techniques generalize to other domains. The method offers a quantitative answer to the nomenclature problem in neuroscience by comparing brain parts on the basis of their geometrical definitions rather than on the basis of name alone. Thus far these tools have been used to quantitatively compare eight distinct parcellations of the International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM) single-subject template brain, each created using existing atlasing methods. This resources provides measures of global and regional similarity, and offers visualization techniques that allow users to quickly identify the correspondences (or lack of correspondences) between regions defined by different atlases.

Proper citation: OBART (RRID:SCR_001903) Copy   

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http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/motorcontrol/

Using robotic devices to investigate human motor behavior, this group develops computational models to understand the underlying control and learning processes. By simulating novel objects or dynamic environments they study how the brain recalibrates well-learned motor skills or acquires new ones. These insights are used to design fMRI studies to investigate how these processes map onto the brain. They have developed a number of novel techniques of how to study motor control in the MRI environment, and how to analyze MRI data of the human cerebellum. They also study patients with stroke or neurological disease to further determine how the brain manages to control the body.

Proper citation: UCL Motor Control Group (RRID:SCR_005271) Copy   

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

The FMRIB Centre is a multi-disciplinary neuroimaging research facility, which focuses on the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for neuroscience research, along with related technologies such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, transcranial Direct Cortical Stimulation and EEG. FMRIB is composed of research groups in all aspects of brain imaging research, including physics, analysis, basic science and clinical neuroscience. We were recently awarded 8 million pounds by the MRC, EPSRC, Wolfson Foundation and University of Oxford to purchase and install new 7T and 3T leading-edge MRI systems to enable us to image brain structure and function at even higher resolution than currently possible.

Proper citation: Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (RRID:SCR_005283) Copy   

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http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/doc/misc/AtlasMap

A sample script on how to map some numbers to brain regions, using the Talairach-Tournoux Atlas database. For example, put the value 0.379 in each hippocampus voxel, and the value 0.666 in each superior temporal gyrus voxel.

Proper citation: Mapping Data to the Talairach Atlas (RRID:SCR_005284) Copy   

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http://ucneuroscience.com/

Leading treatment, research and teaching center for complex neurological conditions based at the University Hospital and the UC College of Medicine. Its physicians and researchers have created national models for evidence-based treatment and research of complex conditions, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, brain aneurysms, brain and spinal cord trauma, brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, trigeminal neuralgia, Alzheimer's disease and memory disorders, mood disorders, and neuromuscular disorders. UCNI includes a team of more than 100 experts from 15 specialties who collaborate across disciplines to provide the most comprehensive diagnoses and treatments possible.

Proper citation: University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute (RRID:SCR_005345) Copy   

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http://pivotcollections.org/collection.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 4th, 2023. Mouse brains displayed in the Microsoft Silverlight PivotViewer from the Mouse Brain Library (MBL) which consist of high-resolution images of brains from many genetically characterized strains of mice. PivotViewer makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. By visualizing thousands of related items at once, users can see trends and patterns that would be hidden when looking at one item at a time. Because PivotViewer leverages Deep Zoom, it displays full, high-resolution content without long load times, while the animations and natural transitions provide context and prevent users from feeling overwhelmed by large quantities of information. This simple, inviting interaction model encourages exploration and longer audience engagement times, and applies broadly to a variety of content types.

Proper citation: MBL Pivot Collection (RRID:SCR_005506) Copy   

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https://www.braintest.org/brain_test/BrainTest

A portal of online studies that encourage community participation to tackle the most challenging problems in neuropsychiatry, including attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Our approach is to engage the community and try to recruit tens of thousands of people to spend an hour of their time on our site. You folks will provide data in both brain tests and questionnaires, as well as DNA, and in return, we will provide some information about your brain and behavior. You will also be entered to win amazon.com gift cards. While large collaborative efforts were made in genetics in order to discover the secrets of the human genome, there are still many mysteries about the behaviors that are seen in complex neuropsychiatric syndromes and the underlying biology that gives rise to these behaviors. We know that it will require studying tens of thousands of people to begin to answer these questions. Having you, the public, as a research partner is the only way to achieve that kind of investment. This site will try to reach that goal, by combining high-throughput behavioral assessment using questionnaires and game-like cognitive tests. You provide the data and then we will provide information and feedback about why you should help us achieve our goals and how it benefits everyone in the world. We believe that through this online study, we can better understand memory and attention behaviors in the general population and their genetic basis, which will in turn allow us to better characterize how these behaviors go awry in people who suffer from mental illness. In the end, we hope this will provide better, more personalized treatment options, and ultimately prevention of these widespread and extremely debilitating brain diseases. We will use the data we collect to try to identify the genetic basis for memory and impulse control, for example. If we can achieve this goal, maybe we can then do more targeted research to understand how the biology goes awry in people who have problems with cognition, including memory and impulse control, like those diagnosed with ADHD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. By participating in our research, you can learn about mental illness and health and help researchers tackle these complex problems. We can''t do it without your help.

Proper citation: Brain Test (RRID:SCR_006212) Copy   

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http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html

Mouse Party is an interactive website that teaches how various drugs disrupt the synapse by taking a look inside the brains of mice on drugs! Every drug of abuse has its own unique molecular mechanism. Where applicable, this presentation primarily depicts how drugs interact with dopamine neurotransmitters because this website focuses on the brain''s reward pathway. Mouse Party is designed to provide a small glimpse into the chemical interactions at the synaptic level that cause the drug user to feel ''high''. The simplified mechanisms of drug action presented here are just a small part of the story. When drugs enter the body they elicit very complex effects in many different regions of the brain. Often they interact with many different types of neurotransmitters and may bind with a variety of receptor types in a variety of different locations. For example, THC in marijuana can bind with cannabinoid receptors located on the presynaptic and/or postsynaptic cell in a synapse.

Proper citation: Mouse Party (RRID:SCR_006438) Copy   

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