A number of online neuroscience databases are available which provide information regarding gene expression, neurons, macroscopic brain structure, and neurological or psychiatric disorders. Some databases contain descriptive and numerical data, some to brain function, others offer access to 'raw' imaging data, such as postmortem brain sections or 3D MRI and fMRI images. Some focus on the human brain, others on non-human.
As the number of databases that seek to disseminate information about the structure, development and function of the brain has grown, so has the need to collate these resources themselves. As a result, there now exist databases of neuroscience databases, some of which reach over 3000 entries.
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Neuroscience databases
Name Description Organism Level (gene, neuron, macroscopic) Data (MRI, fMRI, images, descriptive, numerical) Disorder Register to view data? Ref.A Virtual Library for Behavioral Performance in Standard Conditions – Rodent Spontaneous Activity in an Open Field during Repeated Testing and after Treatment with Drugs or Brain LesionsResearch using an animal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder employed a standardized paradigm where the behavior of rats in a large open field was video recorded for 55 min on each test.RatMacroscopicVideoObsessive-compulsive disorderNo Allen Brain Atlas Atlas, stained sections from brains showing development and gene expression Mouse, Human Macroscopic, Gene Images Healthy No Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Structural MRI images Human Macroscopic MRI datasets Healthy and Alzheimer's disease Yes Big Brain 3D reconstruction of complete brain from cell-body stained histology sections at 20 micron isotropic resolution Human Microscopic Images Healthy No BIRN fMRI and MRI data fMRI, MRI scans and atlases for human and mouse brains Mouse, Human Multilevel: brain regions, connections, neurons, gene expression patterns MRI datasets, fMRI datasets Healthy, Elderly No Bipolar Disorder Neuroimaging Database Meta-analysis and database of MRI studies Human Macroscopic Descriptive, numerical Bipolar Disorder No Brain Architecture Management System Online resource for information about neural circuitry Rat, mouse, human Multilevel: brain regions, connections, neurons, gene expression patterns Descriptive, numerical Healthy No Brain Cloud Gene expression in the human prefrontal cortex Human Gene expression patterns Descriptive, numerical Healthy No Brain-CODE A multi-modal, cross-disorder platform for integrated neuroscience research and data by the Ontario Brain Institute. Human, Animal Multimodal datasets (clinical, imaging, molecular, etc.) Descriptive, numerical, imaging, molecular, genetics Neurodevelopmental, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Depression, Neurodegeneration, Concussion Yes Brain-Development.org Structural MRI images and Atlases Human Macroscopic MRI datasets Fetuses, healthy and prematurely born neonates Yes Braingraph.org Braingraphs computed from the Human Connectome Project data Human Macroscopic, up to 1015 nodes directed and undirected graphs in anatomically annotated GraphML format Healthy No Braininfo Atlas, schematic atlas of Macaca fascicularis Macaque Macroscopic Schematic images Healthy Yes Brain Machine Interface Platform Different types of data related to brain machine interface Human, Monkey Macroscopic, Neuron Images, Numerical Healthy No BrainMap.org fMRI coordinate database Human Macroscopic Descriptive Healthy Yes BrainMaps Atlas, high resolution stained sections from brains Human, primate and non-primate (14 species in all) Neuron and Macroscopic Images Healthy No Brain/MINDS Dataportal Atlas, in-vivo and ex-vivo MRI scans, ECoG recordings Common Marmoset, Human Macroscopic Images Healthy No Brede Database fMRI and PET coordinate database Human Macroscopic Descriptive Healthy No Nielsen, F.A. (2003). The Brede database: a small database for functional neuroimaging NeuroImage 19(2), Presented at the 9th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 19--22, 2003, New York. Brainmuseum.org / MSU Brain Biodiversity Bank Atlas, stained sections from brains and MRI images Human and 62 other species Macroscopic Images Healthy No Brainomics/Localizer fMRI and MRI scans, behavioral data Human Macroscopic Images, Numerical Healthy No BuzLabDB: The Buzsaki Lab Databank Electrophysiological recordings performed in freely moving rats and mice collected by investigators in the Buzsaki Lab Mice and rats Multiscale Spike trains, LFP, Raw ephys data Healthy No Caltech Subcortical Atlas MRI scans Human Macroscopic MRI Healthy No Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) MRI, fMRI, MEG data for ~700 population-derived healthy adults aged 18–88 Human Macroscopic Images, Descriptive, Numerical Healthy No The Cancer Imaging Archive MRI, CT, and PET imaging of cancer patients with supporting clinical data (in many cases) Human Macroscopic Images, Descriptive, Numerical Cancer No Cerebellar Development Transcriptome Database Atlas, stained sections from mouse brains showing cerebellar development and gene expression Mouse Macroscopic, Gene Images Healthy No Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS.org) Many kinds of neuroscience results that are relevant for modeling Human and several other species Multiscale Spike trains, LFP, MUA, MRI Healthy YesDANDI: Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integrationcellular neurophysiology data including electrophysiology, optophysiology, and behavioral time-series, and images from immunostaining experimentsHuman and several other speciesMultiscaleSpike trains, LFP, MUA, MRIHealthy Database for Reaching Experiments And Models (DREAM) Reaching data (behavioral, generalization, adaptation, learning, spike, fMRI, uncertainty) Human and monkey Macroscopic Kinematic, Spike, fMRI Healthy Yes The fMRI Data Center fMRI datasets from published studies Human Macroscopic fMRI datasets Healthy Yes Van Horn JD, Grethe JS, Kostelec P, Woodward JB, Aslam JA, Rus D, Rockmore D, Gazzaniga MS (2001)