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Advances in our understanding of the brain are leading to new insights into how we think and to new opportunities to treat the devastating set of neurological diseases that affect all segments of our population. Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute integrates basic, translational and clinical neuroscience research; education of graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows and residents; clinical care of patients with neurobehavioral diseases and disorders; and outreach to the local community, state, regional, national and international neuroscience organizations. With the neurosciences clearly established as a continuing priority in the overall strategic vision of Penn State Hershey, the leadership of the neuroscience community is seeking to establish the short and long term vision for excellence and continued growth in neuroscience. Those academic centers that can achieve the best collaboration and alignment among the various neuroscience disciplines will be best positioned to advance this field. We believe that the formation of Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute positions us to take a leading role in developing neuroscience knowledge and treatment.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A web portal that aggregates information and educational materials about the brain and brain diseases. Resources such as videos, key brain concepts, and hands-on activities may be used and shared with the public.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. Visual span tests have been frequently used to assess non-verbal short-term memory. The free computer-based CATs Visual Span provides you with a flexible package for designing tests of visual spatial memory. You can create your own unique tests or variations on previously reported versions of the visual span test. For example in the Corsis Block-Tapping Test the examiner places nine blocks on a board and taps them in a designated sequence. The participant is required to repeat the sequence. Over trials the length of the sequence is increased (see Milner, 1971). The Knox Cube Imitation Test uses four blocks and essentially follows the same logic. The Wechsler Memory Scale - Revised includes a two part visual memory span test. In this test the examiner points at boxes on an eight box card in a prearranged sequence and the subject is required to repeat back the sequence. The initial trial starts with a sequence of two blocks and increases over trials. The two parts of this test are a forward visual span test and a reverse visual span test. Tests similar to these and more can be setup with the CATs Visual Span.

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Software package contains methods for performing Phenome-Wide Association Study.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Computing resources structural biologists need to discover the shapes of the molecules of life, it provides access to web-enabled structural biology applications, data sharing facilities, biological data sets, and other resources valuable to the computational structural biology community. Consortium includes X-ray crystallography, NMR and electron microscopy laboratories worldwide.SBGrid Service Center is located at Harvard Medical School.SBGrid's NIH-compliant Service Center supports SBGrid operations and provides members with access to Software Maintenance, Computing Access, and Training. Consortium benefits include: * remote management of your customized collection of structural biology applications on Linux and Mac workstations; * access to commercial applications exclusively licensed to members of the Consortium, such as NMRPipe, Schrodinger Suite (limited tokens) and the Incentive version of Pymol; remote management of supporting scientific applications (e.g., bioinformatics, computational chemistry and utilities); * access to SBGrid seminars and events; and * advice about hardware configurations, operating system installations and high performance computing. Membership is restricted to academic/non-profit research laboratories that use X-ray crystallography, 2D crystallography, NMR, EM, tomography and other experimental structural biology technologies in their research. Most new members are fully integrated with SBGrid within 2 weeks of the initial application.

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Freely accessible, public repository of vetted and annotated microscopic images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes. Explore by Cell Process, Cell Component, Cell Type or Organism. The Cell includes images acquired from historical and modern collections, publications, and by recruitment.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A hybrid software system for feature selection and sample classification of high-dimensional datasets. It is designed for microarray but can be applied to any other high-dimensional datasets. It uses multiple filters to produce a normalized score for each feature. The score is an indication of the usefulness of each feature. It is then translated into a frequency map with more useful features receive a higher frequency in the map.

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The Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP) at OHSU provides outstanding, multidisciplinary training in neuroscience in one of the best-recognized neuroscience programs in the United States. Our graduates are distributed at top research institutions throughout the world, and the success of our faculty ensures that graduates have ready access to their next step ����?? be it postdoctoral fellowships in academia or industry, or other science-related careers. The program is particularly strong in cellular neuroscience, neuronal signaling, gene regulation, biophysics of channels and transporters, sensory systems, and neuroendocrinology with increasing strength in developmental neuroscience and disease-oriented neuroscience research. Faculty members are located within research institutes at OHSU including the Vollum Institute, the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), Oregon Hearing Research Center, Jungers Center and the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET); as well as the basic and clinical departments in the OHSU School of Medicine. As time spent in the lab is the most important component of graduate science training, our program is designed such that core coursework is completed in the first year. During that first year, students also are immersed in research through lab rotations in several labs, eventually choosing one that gives a mutual fit. Because of the relatively small number of students compared to the number of neuroscience laboratories at OHSU, students have many options for a thesis lab. Our well funded faculty provide state-of-the-art exposure to the concepts and technology of modern neuroscience. OHSU also offers certificate and degree programs, e.g. technology transfer and translational science, for advanced students in the NGP who want to broaden their career options.

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CATs Tower of London test is a free, computer-based software test originally developed by Shallice (1982) to investigate problem solving in subjects with damage to the frontal lobes. The CATs Tower of London Test comes with one preprogrammed test along with extensive normative data for that test. You can also create a test using your design. Briefly, subjects are required to move colored beads from a window on the left (working area) until they achieve the arrangement in the window on the right (goal position). Subjects are instructed to try to achieve the goal arrangement in as few moves as possible. The software contains a Tower of London test. The test contains trials with 3 beads and 3 pegs, 4 beads and 4 pegs, and 5 beads and 5 pegs. You can use the Setup screen to create a test using your design. A test can contain 3, 4, and 5 bead problems with varying number of moves required for the optimal solution. In Shallice's initial investigation using the Tower of London, patients with damage to the left anterior frontal lobe demonstrated impaired planning (i.e., greater number of moves required for solution). Patients with damage to the right anterior, and left or right posterior areas of the frontal lobes were not impaired. Thus, results from this initial study provided support for the view that the left anterior frontal lobe area is involved in the planning required for solving the Tower of London test. Recent studies using neuroimaging techniques support this notion. Studies using regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) imaging indicate an involvement of the left frontal lobes in the planning required for successfully completing the Tower of London puzzle. Studies of patients with damage to the frontal lobes indicate less cortical specificity, but are consistent with the view that the frontal lobes are involved in the planning required for solving this puzzle.

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HEFalMp (Human Experimental/FunctionAL MaPper) is a tool developed by Curtis Huttenhower in Olga Troyanskaya's lab at Princeton University. It was created to allow interactive exploration of functional maps. Functional mapping analyzes portions of these networks related to user-specified groups of genes and biological processes and displays the results as probabilities (for individual genes), functional association p-values (for groups of genes), or graphically (as an interaction network). HEFalMp contains information from roughly 15,000 microarray conditions, over 15,000 publications on genetic and physical protein interactions, and several types of DNA and protein sequence analyses and allows the exploration of over 200 H. sapiens process-specific functional relationship networks, including a global, process-independent network capturing the most general functional relationships. Looking to download functional maps? Keep an eye on the bottom of each page of results: every functional map of any kind is generated with a Download link at the bottom right. Most functional maps are provided as tab-delimited text to simplify downstream processing; graphical interaction networks are provided as Support Vector Graphics files, which can be viewed using the Adobe Viewer, any recent version of Firefox, or the excellent open source Inkscape tool.

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A comprehensive collection of annotations and structures for protein modifications including amino-terminal, carboxyl-terminal and peptide chain cross-link post-translational modifications. It provides: systematic and alternate names, atomic formulas and masses, enzyme activities generating the modifications, keywords, literature citations, Gene Ontology cross-references, Protein Information Resource (PIR) and SWISS-PROT protein sequence database feature table annotations, structure diagrams and molecular models. Each RESID Database entry presents a chemically unique modification and shows how that modification is currently annotated in the protein sequence databases, Swiss-Prot and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). The RESID Database provides a table of corresponding equivalent feature annotations that is used in the UniProt project, an international effort to combine the resources of the Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL and PIR. As an annotation tool, the RESID Database is used in standardizing and enhancing modification descriptions in the feature tables of Swiss-Prot entries.

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An online electronic lab notebook designed for lab scientists at research organizations that allows the creation and import research data, controlled sharing between lab members, and lets lab members communicate via messages and tasks. It also allows lab members to work from home or when travelling, in a secure, integrated collaborative environment.

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Gene Cloud is a novel tool presenting gene-gene associations based on the scientific literature. It was developed by the Knockout Mouse Repository (www.komp.org) to help our customers find products related to other products they chose. We have built a detailed graph model of gene-gene associations based on how many times two genes are cited in the same article. If two genes are cited in many papers together, they are considered strongly connected. Each instance of Gene Cloud is centered around a specific gene. A list of the top most related genes is plotted as a branching structure from the center. A secondary branch can occur if a gene in the graph is more related a non-central gene than it is to the center gene. The font size of a branched gene indicates the relative strength of connection--always to the center gene. The distribution of genes in space is randomized each time Gene Cloud is run so a different picture will result for the same central gene. Color is used to indicate the availability of Knockout Mouse products at the KOMP Repository. If a gene is colored green in the graph there are products (mutant ES cells, sperm, embryos, or mice) ready to be ordered. Blue colored genes do not yet have products available, but you can follow the links back to the KOMP Repository and register interest to be alerted when products do become available. Gene Cloud is driven by a database of gene-gene associations that currently contains 82,000 genes and other biotypes, 113,000 annotated publications, and 467 million connections. The latest gene symbols, names and gene-publication annotation information is updated daily from the Mouse Genome Informatics database. The graphing is accomplished through the use of a modified version of jsViz.

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Dataset of resting state fMRI scans obtained using two different TR's in healthy college-aged volunteers. Specifically, for each participant, data is being obtained with a short TR (0.4 seconds) and a long TR (2.0 seconds). In addition this dataset contains a 64-direction DTI scan for every participant. The following data are released for every participant: * 8-minute resting-state fMRI scan (TR = 2 seconds, # repetitions = 240) * 8-minute resting-state fMRI scans (TR = 0.4 seconds, # repetitions = 1200) * MPRAGE anatomical scan, defaced to protect patient confidentiality * 64-direction diffusion tensor imaging scan (2mm isotropic) * Demographic information

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Digital three-dimensional MRI atlas of the Mozambique tilapia brain, supported by Nissl staining. Images were viewed and analyzed in all orientations (transverse, sagittal, and horizontal) and manually labelled to reveal structures in the olfactory bulb, telencephalon, diencephalon, optic tectum, and cerebellum. The MRI atlas data (16-bit int) and delineation data (8-bit int) are provided in Raw data (file_name.raw), Amira format (file_name.am) and in Analyze format (file_name.img and file_name.hdr).

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Wiki dedicated to neurosurgical topics, maintained by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Members can log in to contribute by adding or editing an article. A wiki is a collaborative technology for organizing information. Visitors can add, remove, and edit content. Like all other wikis, the CNS University's NeuroWiki allows linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation will engender collaborative authoring.

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Database on transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli K-12 containing knowledge manually curated from original scientific publications, complemented with high throughput datasets and comprehensive computational predictions. Graphic and text-integrated environment with friendly navigation where regulatory information is always at hand. They provide integrated views to understand as well as organized knowledge in computable form. Users may submit data to make it publicly available.

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Software package that performs genetic association tests between SNPs (one-at-a-time) and multiple phenotypes (separately or in joint model).

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A domain ontology implemented in OWL-DL, which proposes a formal description of pharmacogenomic knowledge. It articulates different ontologies that represent complementary sub-domains of pharmacogenomics, i.e. related to genotype, phenotype, drugs, and clinical trials. SO-Pharm enables the representation of pharmacogenomic relationships between a drug, a genomic variation and a phenotype trait. In addition, it enables the representation of a patient and more largely a panel included in trials, and populations. SO-Pharm enables the representation of measured items on patients such as results from the observation of a phenotype trait or of genomic variations. SO-Pharm supports knowledge about pharmacogenomic hypothesis, case study, and investigations in pharmacogenomics. SO-Pharm is designed to facilitate data integration and knowledge discovery in pharmacogenomics. In addition it provides a consistent articulation of ontologies of pharmacogenomic sub-domains.

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Collection of curated, non-redundant genomic DNA, transcript RNA, and protein sequences produced by NCBI. Provides a reference for genome annotation, gene identification and characterization, mutation and polymorphism analysis, expression studies, and comparative analyses. Accessed through the Nucleotide and Protein databases.

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