Child Mind Institute Launches Consortium for Reproducibility and Reliability (CoRR)

"The Child Mind Institute is proud to announce the open release of the Consortium for Reproducibility and Reliability (CoRR) dataset. Consisting of resting state fMRI (R-fMRI) and anatomical imaging scans repeated on 2 or more occasions in over 1500 individuals (over 5000 resting fMRI data sets in total) across 17 institutions around the world, this is an unprecedented resource from which the reliability of MRI-based imaging modalities can be determined. The initiative’s open science philosophy allows users to share the data via the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project and its International Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative (FCP/INDI), which were launched in 2010 by Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD, director of the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute, and now contains more than 10,000 brain images. This newest FCP/INDI effort is set to release later this week on June 7th. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have been instrumental in the CoRR collaboration, providing the necessary funding and manpower to build the foundation of the project along with the Child Mind Institute, the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Nathan Kline Institute. These funds reflect NIDA’s and NSFC’s commitment to the promotion of open science as a means of advancing our understanding of the brain ..."