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Brain Facts is a 74-page primer on the brain and nervous system, published by SfN. Designed for a lay audience as an introduction to neuroscience, Brain Facts is also a valuable educational resource used by high school teachers and students who participate in Brain Awareness Week. The 2008 edition updates all sections and includes new information on brain development, learning and memory, language, neurological and psychiatric illnesses, potential therapies, and more. Download the full book (PDF) or download individual sections. All downloads are PDFs. Educators, request a copy of the Brain Facts book (paperback or CD) - contact BAW@SfN.org.

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Popular science magazine which includes news and blogs on topics including Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain, Technology, Space, Human origins, Living World, Environment, and Physics & Math. NIF Indexes include: The Brain: DISCOVER blogger, columnist, and contributing editor Carl Zimmer''s monthly column will make your brain happy. Discover Interview: The magazine''s signature in-depth discussion with the leading lights of the world of science Vital Signs: A medical mystery, as written by the doctor involved.

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Aggregator of blogs about new developments in science and other fields that allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research, instead of just news reports and press releases. If you''re a blogger who writes about serious research, Research Blogging offers you a way to distinguish your serious posts from news, politics, family, bagpipes, and so on. They can direct your regular readers - and new readers - to the posts you''ve worked the hardest to create. All you need to get started is a blog and a peer-reviewed research report that you''d like to discuss. How it works * Bloggers -- often experts in their field -- find exciting new peer-reviewed research they''d like to share. They write thoughtful posts about the research for their blogs. * Bloggers register and use a simple one-line form to create a snippet of code to place in their posts. This snippet not only notifies this site about their post, it also creates a properly formatted research citation for their blog. * Their software automatically scans registered blogs for posts containing their code snippet. When it finds them, it indexes them and displays them on their front page -- thousands of posts from hundreds of blogs, in one convenient place, organized by topic. * Their editors identify the notable posts in each major discipline, publishing the results on their news page. * Other services like PubGet index their database as well, so every time readers search for a journal article, they can also locate blog posts discussing the article. * The quality of the posts listed on their site is monitored by the member bloggers. If a post doesn''t follow their guidelines, it is removed from their database. Borderline cases may be discussed publicly on the blog as well. Bloggers are also provided with an icon they can use to show when they''re talking about a peer-reviewed work that they''ve read and analyzed closely. There are already over seven thousand blog posts using the icon, and now it''s easier than ever to find them.

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COS mirrors grants.gov and several other funding resources. There may soon be some conditions for access the data. It also allows users to advertise their funding opportunities. COS is the leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. We aggregate valuable information so you spend less precious time and money searching for the information you need, leaving you more time and money for your projects. Find funding with COS Funding Opportunities: search the world''s most comprehensive funding resource, with more than 25,000 records worth over $33 billion. COS Expertise profiles and profile tools will no longer be available beginning January 18, 2012. Profiles will be available on COS Pivot, the new tool for connecting to funding and collaborators. The COS Funding Opportunities database includes announcements of grants, prizes and other funding available to researchers, educators and students, professionals, nonprofit organizations, and businesses such as faculty or medical staff spin-offs. * More than 25,000 records representing over $33 billion in funding. * Opportunities by sponsors throughout the world for recipients throughout the world. * Sponsors include private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations and more. * Monies available for work in all disciplines physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health & medicine, arts & humanities. * Funding for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, capital or operating expenses. * Updated daily, all information verified with sponsor, edited for consistency and optimized for accurate searching. If you would like to promote your institution''s funding opportunities, have them listed in our COS Funding Opportunities database.

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Ontology that models research resources such as instruments, protocols, reagents, animal models and biospecimens. It has been developed in the context of the eagle-i project (http://eagle-i.net/) and consists of over 3451 classes of which over 1200 were created within the ERO namespace, while the rest come from existent ontologies such as the Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI), the uber-anatomy ontology (Uberon), VIVO, the Ontology for Clinical Research (OCRe), the Sequence Ontology (SO), the Software Ontology (SWO) and we include terms from the NCBI Taxonomy as well. The main ontology can be browsed in OntoBee. All purls resolve to OntoBee.

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A biweekly news feed that includes a sampling of new and updated award information from COS Funding Opportunities. COS Funding Opportunities is the most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 awards from around the world. For highlights of funding available for the health sciences and for the humanities, check out COS Health Science Funding News and COS Humanities and Social Sciences Funding News. Which funding opportunities are most popular? To find out, see last week''s Top Ten Funding Opportunities. COS Funding News is now available as an RSS feed.

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A set of Java programs for genetic epidemiology analysis (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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UK and Australia scientific job board.

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A research facility and clinical program that is dedicated to the study and the treatment of both normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. This facility will accommodate requests for its resources (for example, data or tissue) from investigators that are not funded by the ADRC. Their team is composed of experts in geriatrics, geriatric psychiatry and psychology, neurology, pathology, and radiology. All team members work to provide services to those with memory disorders. This center sponsors educational programs for healthcare professionals and community groups. Data from the ADRC cores are available to all ADRC investigators after approval from the PI who collected the data. Data generated by the ADRC cores are communicated to the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) and can be available through them. Tissue can be distributed after approval of the Tissue Allocation Committee, and can be used for further research.

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A research center which facilitates advanced research on the clinical, genetic, neuropathological, neuroanatomical, biomedical, psychosocial, and neuropsychological aspects of Alzheimer's disease, as well as other related brain disorders. This center is supported by the National Institute on Aging and, more specifically, is a research arm of the Memory and Aging Project. Thus, this center is a part of a worldwide project dedicated to the study of the development of Alzheimer's disease, and the development of new treatments. An important focus of the Knight ADRC is the differentiation of Alzheimer's disease type dementia from that associated with normal aging. Cores and programs include the African-American satellite program to ensure diverse representation in the participant pool, a genetic repository for DNA, serum and plasma collected from ADRC participants, a neuroimaging and neuropathology core.

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A research program associated with bringing together researchers from various disciplines to study the genetic and molecular basis of Parkinson's disease. The program focuses on epidemiological and longitudinal studies of Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and aging and dementia. It also provides clinical materials for other research projects. This program provides faculty research funds, invited speaker seminar series, sponsorship of movement disorder fellowships, pilot research grants, and support for faculty travel to promote intra-institutional collaborations.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. Software application with implementation of the Sad statistic, more robust to transmission ratio distortion in the context of allele sharing (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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An endowment that offers funding for neuroscience research, especially as it may apply to Minnesota, agriculture, or if the researchers are based in Minnesota. The McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation, seeks to improve the quality of life for present and future generations through grantmaking, collaboration, and strategic policy reform in the following areas: arts, education and learning, environment, the region and communities, agricultural research, and neuroscience research. The McKnight Foundation assists nonprofit organizations and public agencies to improve the quality of life for all people, particularly those in need. Through grantmaking, coalition-building, and encouragement of strategic policy reform, we aim to build and maintain vibrant communities; enrich people''s lives through the arts; encourage protection of the natural environment; and promote research in selected fields. The Foundation had assets of approximately $1.8 billion and gave about $98 million in grants in 2009. Generally speaking, McKnight supports nonprofit organizations in Minnesota, U.S., only. McKnight''s primary geographic focus in grantmaking is to nonprofit organizations located within the state of Minnesota. We do not provide funding outside Minnesota, with five important programmatic exceptions: * Collaborative Crop research: International. * East Africa: Tanzania and Uganda only. * Mississippi River: 10 states bordering or encompassing the Mississippi River. * Neuroscience research: National. * Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam only. Each program is different. Please consult the specific guidelines appropriate to your project or organization for funding details. With very few exceptions, McKnight funds nonprofit organizations only. To be eligible for a grant, applicants must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations. We discourage the use of fiscal agents.

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An organization that funds research for Alzheimer's disease, provides information on new treatment strategies, provides information on caring for afflicted people, and generally increases public knowledge of disease prevention. This program financially supports new Alzheimer's studies. These research projects are selected by the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council. The council chooses which studies to address based on their potential uses in diagnostics, genetics, treatments, prevention, early detection and general enhancement of lifestyle.

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An organization that provides scientists with human tissue from Alzheimer's patients and patients with related brain disorders. Brain tissue is collected from research studies at the University of Michigan, as well as other research centers, and are donated by the families of the patients or the participants themselves. Tissues that are present in the Brain Bank are pre-characterized by pathologists and can be provided to researchers upon request.

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An Alzheimer's disease center which aims to conduct and promote research on Alzheimer's disease and enhance public and professional understanding of dementia through education and outreach efforts. The MADC promotes clinical research on memory and aging which involves the direct use of research volunteers, biomarkers, and other clinical data collected through the University of Michigan Memory and Aging Project.

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An algorithm for feature selection in the presence of potential confounding factors.

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An endowment that offers funding for memory research. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is an independent charitable organization established by The McKnight Foundation to carry out the wishes of its founder, William L. McKnight (1887-1979). Currently, the Endowment Fund for Neuroscience administers four awards which support young and established neuroscientists and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration: * Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards * Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Awards * Scholar Awards * Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards Mr. McKnight, who led the 3M company for three decades, had a personal interest in memory and its diseases. He chose to set aside part of his legacy to bring hope to those suffering from brain injury or disease and cognitive impairment.

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A complete pipeline for the analysis of alternative splicing using RNA-Sequencing data.

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brat is a free, open-source, web-based tool for text annotation, visualisation and editing. brat is designed in particular for structured annotation, where the notes are not freeform text but have a fixed form that can be automatically processed and interpreted by a computer. brat is built entirely on standard web technologies, and it is not necessary to install any local software or browser plugins to use it. An annotator can set up and start using brat simply by entering the address of the brat installation into the address bar of a browser. (Setting up an entirely new brat server does require some action, but can be done in just five minutes on any system running a web server.) brat is fully configurable and can support a wide variety of annotation tasks, including, for example: * entity mention (named entity) annotation * binary relation annotation * dependency syntactic annotation * structured, n-ary event annotation * attribute/meta-knowledge annotation (e.g. negation, speculation, etc.) The tool also provides annotation support features such as text and annotation search with detailed constraints, keyword-in-context concordancing, and integrated configurable checking of task-specific semantic constraints. Annotations created in brat can be exported with a few clicks from the interface in a simple standoff format that can be easily analyzed, processed, and converted into other formats. Visualizations can be similarly be exported in their native SVG format, rendered as a bitmap (PNG format), or converted into other vector formats for embedding into documents (PDF or EPS). brat is developed as a collaborative effort between several research groups as an open source project (MIT license), and we warmly welcome contributions and participation from the community, including feature requests. We hope this tool will prove valuable to the natural language processing community, and will gladly answer questions and welcome any feedback.

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