Ever wanted to crack the mysteries of the brain? Dreamed of discovering the cause of mental illness?
Well, now, you can - or, at any rate, you can try - and you can do it from the comfort of your own home, thanks to the new Stanley Neuropathology Consortium Integrative Database.
Just register (it's free and instant) and you get access to a pool of data derived from the Stanley Neuropathology Consortium brain collection. The collection comprises 60 frozen brains - 15 each from people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and clinical depression, and 15 "normals".
In a Neuropsychopharmacology paper announcing the project, administrators Sanghyeon Kim and Maree Webster point out that
Data sharing has become more important than ever in the biomedical sciences with the advance of high-throughput technology and web-based databases are one of the most efficient available resources to share datasets.
The Institute's 60 brains have long been ...
