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http://www.adrc.pitt.edu/

A research center associated with the University of Pittsburgh that specializes in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The overall objective of the ADRC is to study the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease, with the aim of improving the reliability of diagnosis of Alzheimer's and developing effective treatment strategies. Current research foci emphasize neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology, molecular genetics and epidemiology, basic neuroscience, and structural and functional imaging that aid in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Specific services at the ADRC include: comprehensive diagnostic evaluation of patients with suspected Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; evaluation of memory, language, judgment, and other cognitive abilities; and education and counseling for patients and families.

Proper citation: University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer Disease Research Center (RRID:SCR_008084) Copy   

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http://stroke.nih.gov/

Campaign to help educate the public about the symptoms of stroke and the importance of getting to the hospital quickly, with a wide range of materials about stroke prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation available through the site. The campaign includes outreach to consumers and health care professionals using mass media, grassroots outreach, partnerships, and community education.

Proper citation: Know Stroke Campaign (RRID:SCR_008073) Copy   

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http://www.dana.org/resources/brainweb/

BrainWeb provides information and links to validated sites about brain diseases and disorders. These include outside resources reviewed by scientific advisers, as well as articles in Dana publications. Sites listed in BrainWeb detail common brain diseases and disorders, and include general neuroscience and health resources. They offer descriptions of conditions, frequently asked questions, organization contacts, and sources for more information. BrainWeb and its links are suitable for lay readers, including students and educators, as well as people with brain disorders, their families, and caregivers.

Proper citation: Dana Foundation: BrainWeb (RRID:SCR_007996) Copy   

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http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dn

A funding resource that supports the research and training for understanding the structure and function of the aging nervous system, with an emphasis on studies involving Alzheimer's disease and age-related dementia. There is an emphasis on brain-behavior relationships. This program is composed of three branches: Neurobiology, Neuropsychology, and Dementias of Aging. The overall aim of this program is to understand the aging nervous system to minimize mental decline and improve the lives of older patients. This resource also includes links to sites for Alzheimer's disease (AD) studies that include: specimen repositories, genetic materials, bio-markers, data, policies on NIA and AD genetics sharing plans, and additional aging or other AD related links.

Proper citation: National Institute on Aging, Division of Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_008257) 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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https://www.uab.edu/medicine/alzheimers/

The UAB Alzheimer's Disease Center provides comprehensive treatment for Alzheimer's patients while also promoting research for the prevention and cure of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The ADC is an interdisciplinary program of scientists working in areas including neurology, psychiatry, genetics, and psychology. The Center provides comprehensive treatment and promotes research for the prevention and/or cure of Alzheimer's disease and other related disorders with memory loss and impaired cognition. A major emphasis of research is the maintenance of a clinical research database comprised of neurological, medical, and neuropsychological test data from participants seen in the ADRC Clinical study since 1999, many of whom have been followed for several years in the study.

Proper citation: UAB Alzheimer's Disease Center (RRID:SCR_004305) Copy   

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http://www.brainnet-europe.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE.Documented on July 7, 2022. Consortium of 19 brain banks across Europe with an aim to harmonize neuropathological diagnostic criteria and develop gold standards for quality, safety and ethics standards for brain banking. BrainNet Europe also contributes to research on rare diseases, such as: Pick''s disease or other rare forms of dementia, as well as to questions after the events in the aging brain. Anyone can be a donor - irrespective of disease of the central nervous system or not, because for research purposes, one does not only need tissue samples from ill donors, but also from healthy ones for comparison.

Proper citation: BrainNet Europe (RRID:SCR_004461) Copy   

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http://adni-info.org/

Database of the results of the ADNI study. ADNI is an initiative to develop biomarker-based methods to detect and track the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that provides access to qualified scientists to their database of imaging, clinical, genomic, and biomarker data.

Proper citation: ADNI - Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (RRID:SCR_003007) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/LOVE

A versatile 1D, 2D and 3D data viewer geared for cross-platform visualization of stereotactic brain data. It is a 3-D viewer that allows volumetric data display and manipulation of axial, sagittal and coronal views. It reads Analyze, Raw-binary and NetCDF volumetric data, as well as, Multi-Contour Files (MCF), LWO/LWS surfaces, atlas hierarchical brain-region labelings ( Brain Trees). It is a portable Java-based software, which only requires a Java interpreter and a 64 MB of RAM memory to run on any computer architecture. LONI_Viz allows the user to interactively overlay and browse through several data volumes, zoom in and out in the axial, sagittal and coronal views, and reports the intensities and the stereo-tactic voxel and world coordinates of the data. Expert users can use LONI_Viz to delineate structures of interest, e.g., sulcal curves, on the 3 cardinal projections of the data. These curves then may be use to reconstruct surfaces representing the topological boundaries of cortical and sub-cortical regions of interest. The 3D features of the package include a SurfaceViewer and a full real-time VolumeRenderer. These allow the user to view the relative positions of different anatomical or functional regions which are not co-planar in any of the axial, sagittal or coronal 2D projection planes. The interactive part of LONI_Viz features a region drawing module used for manual delineation of regions of interest. A series of 2D contours describing the boundary of a region in projection planes (axial, sagittal or coronal) could be used to reconstruct the surface-representation of the 3D outer shell of the region. The latter could then be resliced in directions complementary to the drawing-direction and these complementary contours could be loaded in all tree cardinal views. In addition the surface object could be displayed using the SurfaceViewer. A pre-loading data crop and sub-sampling module allows the user to load and view practically data of any size. This is especially important when viewing cryotome, histological or stained data-sets which may reach 1GB (109 bytes) in size. The user could overlay several pre-registered volumes, change intensity colors and ranges and the inter-volume opacities to visually inspect similarities and differences between the different subjects/modalities. Several image-processing aids provide histogram plotting, image-smoothing, etc. Specific Features: * Region description DataBase * Moleculo-genetic database * Brain anatomical data viewer * BrainMapper tool * Surface (LightWave objects/scenes) and Volume rendering tools * Interactive Contour Drawing tool Implementation Issues: * Applet vs. Application - the software is available as both an applet and a standalone application. The former could be used to browse data from within the LONI database, however, it imposes restrictions on file-size, Internet connection and network-bandwidth and client/server file access. The later requires a local install and configuration of the LONI_Viz software * Extendable object-oriented code (Java), computer architecture independent * Complete online software documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/LONI_Viz and a Java-Class documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~dinov/LONI_Vis.dir/doc/LONI_Viz_Java_Docs.html

Proper citation: LONI Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_000765) Copy   

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http://www.brainnet.net

A neuroscience network providing access to a database of brain, cognitive, genomic and clinical data for research and scientific publication. Data include genomic information, electrical measures of brain and body function, structural and functional MRI, and cognitive and medical history. All data are collected using a standardized assessment protocols. These data are from healthy people and those experiencing a range of brain-related illnesses.

Proper citation: BRAINnet-Brain Research And Integrative Neuroscience Network (RRID:SCR_000712) Copy   

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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medicine/research/index.aspx

A school for education on community health sciences based out of the University of Nottingham. The school contains the divisions of epidemiology, public health, primary care, psychiatry, rehabilitation and aging. The common thread running through each of these divisions is that they all deal with communities, whether these be the entire populations of a region or country, or particular patient groups such as the mentally ill, people with disabilities, and elderly people.

Proper citation: Community Health Sciences (RRID:SCR_000794) Copy   

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https://scicrunch.org/scicrunch/data/source/nlx_154697-13/search?q=*

A virtual database created by the Neuroscience Information Framework currently indexing Scientific Blog and News resources such as: Nature Network Blogs, Wired Science Blogs, The Guardian: Science, It Takes 30, Scientific American Cross-Check, Scientific American Bering in Mind, Research Blogging, CENtral Science, ScienceBlogs: Medicine and Health, American Guest Blog, Scientific American Observations, LabSpaces, RetractionWatch.com, Wired Science, Genomes Unzipped, PLoS Blogs, Daring Nucleic Adventures - genegeek, H2SO4Hurts - Brian Krueger PhD, and Sciblogs.

Proper citation: Integrated Blogs (RRID:SCR_005386) Copy   

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http://brainmap.wisc.edu/monkey.html

NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Documented on September 17, 2019. A set of multi-subject atlas templates to facilitate functional and structural imaging studies of the rhesus macaque. These atlases enable alignment of individual scans to improve localization and statistical power of the results, and allow comparison of results between studies and institutions. This population-average MRI-based atlas collection can be used with common brain mapping packages such as SPM or FSL.

Proper citation: Rhesus Macaque Atlases for Functional and Structural Imaging Studies (RRID:SCR_008650) Copy   

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http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/aged-rodent-tissue-bank-handbook

A repository of tissue collected from the NIA Aged Rodent Colonies under contractual arrangement with BioReliance. The NIA colonies are barrier maintained and Specific Pathogen Free. Tissues are fresh frozen and stored at -80 degrees Celsius. Tissue from the NIA Aged Rodent Tissue Bank is available to investigators at academic and nonprofit research institutions who are engaged in funded research on aging. The project name and source of funding must accompany all orders. It may not be possible to ship tissue to foreign countries that have restrictions on the import of animal tissues or products. Please Note: Incomplete order forms will be returned. We can only offer following week delivery for those orders for which completed order forms are received by the deadline of Tuesday noon, Eastern time. Starting April 1, 2012, a copy (.pdf) of the purchase order must be emailed along with the order form.

Proper citation: Aged Rodent Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_010607) Copy   

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http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/

A neuro blog that is no longer updated but has interesting archives. Categories: * Academia * Activism * Addiction * Aging/Gerontology * Basic Science Posts * Behavioral Neuro * Blog Carnivals * CNS Diseases and Disorders * Cognition * Creationism / Intelligent Design * Evil Journal Club * Evolution * Friday Weird Science * Health Care / Medicine * Menopause * Natural Sciences * Neuroanatomy * Neuroscience * Philosophy * Physiology / Pharmacology * Politics/Policy * Primatology * Religion * Rocket Surgery * Samsara * SchadenFriday * Synaptic Misfires

Proper citation: ScienceBlogs Neurotopia (RRID:SCR_008934) Copy   

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http://blog.clearscience.io/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented July 27, 2015. Infrastructure for more effective scientific communication by leveraging the open APIs of GitHub, Amazon Web Services, and Synapse, clearScience demonstrates how scientists can easily transition from exploring dataexecuting scienceand providing the scientific community all the resources and artifacts to recreate analyses. By capturing the complete lifecycle of a project, reproducibility becomes a byproduct rather than a burden of publication. Further, we provide for forking an analysis, allowing anyone to explore and elaborate on "published" work. If the goal of biomedical research is to deliver results that will ultimately alleviate suffering and minimize harm to patients, being able to transparently share, reproduce, and build off of one another's work is critical to scientific progress. clearScience represents one compelling model for facilitating this progress.

Proper citation: clearScience (RRID:SCR_008958) Copy   

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http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/blog

Blog intended for grantees of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the NIH, as well as applicants for funding, those with an application in mind, application reviewers, and students pursuing careers in research on aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Proper citation: Inside NIA: A Blog for Researchers (RRID:SCR_012812) Copy   

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http://ki.se/en/research/the-swedish-twin-registry-1

The Swedish Registry was established in the 1960s to study how smoking affects our health. Then little was known about the dangers of smoking. There is, at present, information on approximately 85 000 twin pairs, both monozygotic and dizygotic. As described by Lichtenstein et al., 2002, Pedersen et al., 2002 and Lichtenstein et al., 2006, the Swedish Twin Registry (STR) is the largest and most comprehensive twin registry in the world. Founded in 1961, the registry covers all like-sexed twin births since 1886, and all twin births (like- and unlike-sexed) since 1906. There are currently 89,000 pairs of twins registered, of which both members of 65,000 pairs are alive, with regular updates concerning vital status, addresses, hospital discharges, tumors, and causes of death, through subscriptions to national registries. Furthermore, there is extensive epidemiological data (exposures, symptoms and disease through questionnaires or interviews) on all pairs born 1986 or earlier, for most individuals involving 30 year baseline to follow-up information. Furthermore, data from the cohort of twins born since 1991 have been or will be contacted with a telephone interview with the parents of twins as they turn 9 (CATSS). Because the STR is an (inter)national resource, we are receptive to collaboration academic and industry-based researchers. Regardless of the type of research all potential collaborations or data access agreements must be first reviewed Steering Committee of the STR.

Proper citation: Swedish Twin Registry (RRID:SCR_008883) Copy   

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/03255

Data set that looked at religion, self-rated health, depression, and psychological well-being in a sample of older Blacks and older Whites (aged 65 and over) within the United States. Questions were asked regarding religious status, activities, and beliefs among those who currently practice the Christian faith, those who used to be Christian but are not now, and those who have never been associated with any religion during their lifetimes. Demographic variables include age, race, sex, education, and income. Wave II was collected in 2004 and reinterviewed 1,024 respondents. There were 75 respondents who refused to participate, 112 who could not be located, 70 that were too ill for participation, 11 who had moved to nursing homes and 208 were deceased. * Dates of Study: 2001- 2004 * Study Features: Longitudinal, Minority Oversample * Sample Size: 1,500

Proper citation: Religion Aging and Health Survey (RRID:SCR_003625) Copy   

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/00158

Data set from an ongoing, longitudinal-sequential study of adult-cognitive development, which began in 1956, that focuses on individual differences in age-related changes and differences across cohorts. The general purpose of the study is to examine the changes in intelligence and various abilities throughout adulthood. The data provide a normative base to determine the ages of detectable decrements in ability and the magnitudes of the decrements. The study also seeks to examine patterns of generational differences and age-related differences and to determine the effects of educational intervention on intellectual decline. This study is a mixed cross-sectional, longitudinal, and time-lag design. Included are family studies of cognitive similarity, prospective studies of early signs of dementia via psychological and genetic markers, as well as the investigation of personality and demographic variables that affect cognitive change in adults from young adulthood to advanced old age. Questionnaire topics include health behavior, behavioral rigidity, family environment, Life Complexity Inventory, CES-D Depression, and cognitive and neuropsychology batteries. Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound Medical Records and Pharmacy Records. * Dates of Study: 1956-Present * Study Features: Longitudinal * Sample Size: 6,000+

Proper citation: Seattle Longitudinal Study (RRID:SCR_003654) Copy   

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