Iranian Brain Imaging Database: A Neuropsychiatric Database of Healthy Brain
Batouli, Seyed Amir Hossein; Sisakhti, Minoo; Haghshenas, Shirin; Dehghani, Hamed; Sachdev, Perminder; Ekhtiari, Hamed; Kochan, Nicole; Wen, Wei; Leemans, Alexander; Kohanpour, Mohsen; Oghabian, Mohammad Ali
(2021) Basic and clinical neuroscience, volume 12, issue 1, pp. 115 - 132
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Abstract
Introduction: The Iranian Brain Imaging Database (IBID) was initiated in 2017, with 5 major goals: provide researchers easy access to a neuroimaging database, provide normative quantitative measures of the brain for clinical research purposes, study the aging profile of the brain, examine the association of brain structure and function, and
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join the ENIGMA consortium. Many prestigious databases with similar goals are available. However, they were not done on an Iranian population, and the battery of their tests (e.g. cognitive tests) is selected based on their specific questions and needs. Methods: The IBID will include 300 participants (50% female) in the age range of 20 to 70 years old, with an equal number of participants (#60) in each age decade. It comprises a battery of cognitive, lifestyle, medical, and mental health tests, in addition to several Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) protocols. Each participant completes the assessments on two referral days. Results: The study currently has a cross-sectional design, but longitudinal assessments are considered for the future phases of the study. Here, details of the methodology and the initial results of assessing the first 152 participants of the study are provided. Conclusion: IBID is established to enable research into human brain function, to aid clinicians in disease diagnosis research, and also to unite the Iranian researchers with interests in the brain.
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Keywords: Cognitive tests, Database, Healthy population, Magnetic resonance imaging, Clinical Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Journal Article
ISSN: 2008-126X
Publisher: Iran University of Medical Sciences
Note: Funding Information: T is a cohort of young Iranian adult, middle? aged, and elderly individuals who will un? dergo 5 categories of assessments, including medical, mental health, cognitive, lifestyle tests, and MRI scanning. This study was sponsored by the Iranian National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD) (Grant No. 962550). It will recruit 300 healthy individuals in the age range of 20 to 70 years old, with an equal number of males and females in each age decade. There are five major goals for this database. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Iran University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved.
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