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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 07, 2013. A framework for understanding human cognition, grounded in principles specifying the character of human cognitive processes, and constrained by properties, of the underlying neural mechanisms. The Center will exploit this framework to guide formulation of explicit, testable models of normal and disordered cognition, including models of the development of cognitive functions and of their disintegration as a result of brain damage or disease. This site is intended as a public service and as a focal point for exchange of ideas among the participants in the Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Center (IBSC). Public areas of the site provide information about the Center as a whole and about the various projects in the Center, as well as web-accessible documents and tools that we are making available as a public service. A fundamental tenet is that cognition is an emergent phenomenon, arising from the interactions of cooperating processing elements organized into specialized populations. One aim of the center will be to investigate the utility of explicit models that are formulated in terms of this approach, addressing many aspects of cognition including semantic knowledge, language processing, cognitive control, perception, learning and memory. A second aim will also investigate the principles that are embodied in the models, including principles of learning, processing and representation. Learning will be a central focus, since it plays a crucial role in cognitive development, acquisition of skills, formation of memories, and remediation of cognitive functions. A third aim of the Center will be to incorporate constraints from neuroscience. Findings from neuroscience will guide the specification of the principles and the formulation of domain-specific details of particular models, and will provide target experimental observations against which to assess the adequacy of the models. In addition, the Center will make use of neurophysiological methods in animals and functional brain imaging in humans to test predictions and generate additional data needed to constrain and inform model development. The Center will provide training funds for interdisciplinary research fellowships, to train junior scientists in the convergent use of behavioral, computational, and neuroscience methodologies. The outcome of the Centers efforts will be a fuller characterization of the nature of human cognitive processes, a clearer formulation of the underlying principles, and a more complete understanding of normal and disordered functions across many domains of cognition. This Center includes eight projects dedicated to various aspects of cognition and various general issues that arise in the effort to build explicit models that capture different aspects of cognition, and also includes an administrative core to help foster integration and provide computing resources. * Project 1: Functional and Neural Organization of Semantic Memory * Project 2: Interactive Processes in Language: Lexical Processing * Project 3: Interactive Processes in Language: Sentence Processing * Project 4: Mechanisms of Cognitive Control * Project 5: Interactive Processes in Perception: Neurophysiology of Figure-Ground Organization * Project 6: Basic Mechanisms and Cooperating Systems in Learning Memory * Project 7: Age and Experience Dependent Processes in Learning * Project 8: Theoretical Foundations * Core: Integration, Computational Resources, and Administration

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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.

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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.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 12, 2016. A not-for-profit organization that utilizes creativity, innovation, and collaborative approaches to improve awareness, diagnosis, and management of movement disorders among people living with these conditions and the professionals who care for them. WE MOVE's mission is to facilitate the communication of emerging clinical advances and therapeutic approaches to the management and treatment of movement disorders. WE MOVE develops up-to-date training programs and comprehensive, interactive teaching materials to assist professionals in deepening their understanding of neurologic movement disorders and their associated pathophysiology, etiology, differential diagnosis and interventions. It also provides research news information on the latest developments in movement disorder research, comprehensive listings of other existing supportive nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping those with movement disorders, and information on movement disorder-related events. For those unfamiliar with different movement disorders, a glossary of terms is provided. WE MOVE is based in New York, New York. :NIF thanks the Parkinson's Disease Foundation for their referral of this resource to us., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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Database of detailed protocols for single and double in situ hybridization (ISH) method, probes used by Yamamori lab and others useful for studies of brain, and many photos of mammalian (mostly mouse and monkey) brains stained with various gene probes. Also includes a brain atlas of gene expression. Currently, the atlas comprises a series of un-annotated images showing the localization of a particular probe or molecule, e.g., AChE.

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Genomic Object Net (GON) is a software platform for biological pathway modeling and simulation, based on two architectures hybrid functional Petri net (HFPN) and XML technology. This website provides pathway models of HFPN as well as the detailed explanation about these pathways.

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A low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for machine to machine communication, developed by the W3C.

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The VISN 6 MIRECC is organized as a translational medicine multi-site center focused on post deployment mental health issues. The overarching goals are improving clinical assessment and treatment and development of novel interventions through basic and clinical research. This MIRECC aims: (1) To determine whether early intervention in post-deployment mental health is effective in forestalling the development or decreasing the severity of post-deployment mental illness, (2) To determine what neuroimaging, genetic, neurocognitive, or other characteristics predict the development of post-deployment mental illness, and (3) To assess the longitudinal course of post-deployment mental illness.

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This web site is an overview of the post-doctoral psychology training program at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System (VA SLC HCS). Its purpose is to help prospective psychology post-docs learn about the training and professional growth opportunities that are available. The VA Salt Lake City Health Care System postdoctoral fellowship is a full-time, 12-month continuous appointment focused on specialty training in the evaluation and treatment of veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Postdoctoral Fellows will be active members of two interdisciplinary treatment teams: - The PTSD Clinical Team through the Mental Health Department - The Polytrauma Team through the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department. Fellows will also provide community outreach to returning veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq. Especially relevant to the VA Mental Health Strategic Plan, psychological services are provided within the complementary areas of emotional trauma (e.g., military combat, military sexual trauma), physical trauma (e.g., TBI, orthopedic injuries), substance abuse, and couples/family discord, primarily within the OEF/OIF veteran population. Sponsors: This work is funded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Salt Lake City.

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The UW Integrated Brain Project is one project within the national Human Brain Project, a national multi-agency effort to develop informatics tools for managing the exploding amount of information that is accumulating about the human brain. The objective of the UW Integrated Brain Project effort is to organize and integrate distributed functional information about the brain around the structural information framework that is the long term goal of our work. This application therefore extends the utility of the Digital Anatomist Project by using it to organize non-structural information. The initial driving neuroscience problem that is being addressed is the management, visualization and analysis of cortical language mapping data. In recent years, advances in imaging technology such as PET and functional MRI have allowed researchers to observe areas of the cortex that are activated when the subject performs language tasks. These advances have greatly accelerated the amount of data available about human language, but have also emphasized the need to organize and integrate the sometimes contradictory sources of data, in order to develop theories about language organization. The hypothesis is that neuroanatomy is the common substrate on which the diverse kinds of data can be integrated. A result of the work done by this project is a set of software tools for generating a 3-D reconstruction of the patient''s own brain from MRI, for mapping functional data to this reconstruction, for normalizing individual anatomy by warping to a canonical brain atlas and by annotating data with terms from an anatomy ontology, for managing individual lab data in local laboratory information systems, for integrating and querying data across separate data management systems, and for visualizing the integrated results. Sponsors: This Human Brain Project research is funded jointly by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute on Aging.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. CPIHD is a novel Center that blends research and outreach targeting preterm infants and their families. Faculty of the Center work together to find solutions to the complex biomedical, psychological, and social problems associated with preterm delivery. The Center for Premature Infant Health and Development goals are to: discover the causes of health and developmental problems encountered by preterm infants; develop and disseminate optimal family-centered prevention, assessment, and intervention strategies to improve long-term outcomes for preterm infants and families; and eliminate racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes in our community. The missions of CPIHD are: conducting interdisciplinary, translational, and family-centered research; educating the next generation of researchers and practitioners serving preterm infants and their families; and providing community-based outreach to serve families of, and health care workers caring for, preterm infants.

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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.

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GIND provides a highly interactive academic environment and state-of-the-art research facilities that are ideal for training in neuroscience and biomedical research. GIND Investigators hold university appointments at UCSF and participate in educational activities, including the teaching and training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Additionally, GIND is actively engaged in efforts to translate scientific discoveries into better treatments for major diseases of the nervous system. Sponsors: Support for GIND comes from the University of California at San Francisco.

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An interdisciplinary group of scientists and clinicians who study the human brain using a variety of imaging, recording, and computational techniques. Their primary goal is to bridge non-invasive imaging technologies to the underlying neurophysiology of brain neuronal circuits for a better understanding of healthy human brain function, and mechanisms of disruption of this function in diseases such as Alzheimer's, epilepsy and stroke. The other goal of the MMIL is to develop and apply advanced imaging techniques to understanding the human brain and its disorders. In order to ground these methodological developments in their underlying neurobiology, invasive studies in humans and animals involving optical and micro physiological measures are also performed. These methodologies are applied to understanding normal function in sleep, memory and language, development and aging, and diseases such as dementia, epilepsy and autism.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented April 14, 2017. Clinical trial designed to determine how central and peripheral nervous system complications of HIV are affected by different histories and regimens of antiretroviral therapy (ART). CHARTER is able to provide fluid specimens, pilot data, and analysis and interpretation expertise for qualified investigators.

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A software resource which supports high-resolution, scalable, and collaborative scientific visual environments. Scalable Adaptive Graphical Environment is a graphics streaming architecture that allows users to treat high-resolution distributed displays as one contiguous desktop where users can move or resize application windows. It is designed specifically for Windows 32-bit environments and is network centric.

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The Institute for Neural Computation (INC) is an organized research unit of the University of California at San Diego with 44 members representing 14 research disciplines, devoted to the research and development of a new generation of massively parallel computers through a coherent and cohesive plan of research spanning the areas of neuroscience, visual science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, economics and social science, and computer engineering. INC is a leading center in the field of neural computation, initiating joint research projects, providing special facilities for carrying out research, coordinating the training of young investigators, and offering special activities through its Industrial Affiliates Program. The INC also supports training programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Cognitive Neuroscience (NIH) and Computational Neurobiology (NFS).

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Dr. Eric Turner''s laboratory studies the mechanisms underlying the development of the nervous system. The vertebrate brain is comprised of a tremendous variety of neurons, each class exhibiting a unique phenotype characterized by the expression of specific neurotransmitter receptors, ion channels, patterns of axonal growth, and synapse formation. The research we conduct focuses on the critical role transcription factors play in the specification of neuronal cell type during development. We are particularly interested in transcription factors of the homeodomain family that bind to DNA and in doing so activate or repress gene expression. One area of study is the role of POU-domain transciption factor Brn3a in axon growth and survival. The primary research areas are: * Neuronal cell fate determination: The expression of regulatory genes is manipulated in living chick embryos using microsurgery and electroporation and the effects on neural marker genes studied. * Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation: Target DNA binding sites of neural transcription factors are biochemically characterized and findings coordinated with sequence data from the mouse and human genomes. * Targeted misexpression of regulatory genes: Transgenic and knockout mouse technology is used to misexpress genes of interest, and the effects on neural marker genes, axonal growth, and cell survival studied. * Global analysis of neural gene expression: Micro-arrays (GeneChips) are employed in conjunction with other areas of study to understand the coordinated regulation of gene expression in the nervous system. Dr. Turner is a member of the University of California, San Diego''s Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Biomedical Sciences Program and accepts students from these two programs. Interesting rotation projects are available using methods ranging from biochemistry and molecular biology to embryology. Additionally, Dr. Turner is also the Director of this NIMH-funded training program for research-oriented psychiatrists, psychologists, and basic neuroscientists working in areas relevant to psychiatry. Typically Fellows spend two years in the program, during which they develop a research project under the close supervision of one of the highly productive members of the UCSD Department of Psychiatry, or another investigator in the La Jolla (UCSD/Salk/Scripps) research community.

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