Resource Report

URL: http://humanconnectome.org/consortia/

Proper Citation: NIH Human Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_006942)

Description: Project to map the neural pathways that underlie human brain function for several modalities of neuroimaging data including fMRI. The purpose of the Project is to acquire and share data about the structural and functional connectivity of the human brain. It will greatly advance the capabilities for imaging and analyzing brain connections, resulting in improved sensitivity, resolution, and utility, thereby accelerating progress in the emerging field of human connectomics. Altogether, the Human Connectome Project will lead to major advances in the understanding of what makes us uniquely human and will set the stage for future studies of abnormal brain circuits in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. The sixteen institutes and centers of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience have funded two major grants that will take complementary approaches to deciphering the brain's amazingly complex wiring diagram. An 11-institution consortium led by Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Minnesota received a 5-year grant to enable development and utilization of advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods to chart brain circuitry. A consortium led by Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of California at Los Angeles received a grant to enable building and refining a next-generation 3T MR scanner that improves the quality and spatial resolution with which brain connectivity data can be acquired at this field strength.

Abbreviations: HCP

Synonyms: Human Connectome Project, Human Connectome Project (HCP)

Resource Type: data or information resource, organization portal, consortium, portal

Keywords: brain, function, neural pathway, connectivity, human, community, data resource, eeg, meg, electrocorticography, funding resource, hardware, imaging genomics, knowledge environment, magnetic resonance, software, fmri