Human Connectome Project has MRI data for you!

News from the Human Connectome Project (HCP)

March 5, 2013

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) WU-Minn consortium is pleased to announce our first quarterly release of HCP image and behavioral data. Read an overview in our press release on the HCP Q1 data release.

What’s in the HCP Q1 data release? The Q1 data include high-resolution MR scans from 68 healthy adults and four imaging moda lities: structural images (T1w and T2w), resting-state fMRI (rfMRI), task-fMRI (tfMRI), and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (dMRI). Some of the behavioral data acquired from each subject is also available.

Access Q1 data on the HCP website. Explore, download, or order the entire HCP Q1 dataset (~2TB of data!) via the ConnectomeDB database. Most HCP image and behavioral data is open access to investigators worldwide who register and accept a limited set of Open Access Data Use Terms. Sensitive behavioral, demographic, and family structure data is available to qualified researchers who apply for Restricted Data Access.

Want more information? Check out the HCP Q1 Data Release Reference Manual for a comprehensive guide that includes details on imaging protocols, behavioral measures, and information that will help users obtain and analyze the Q1 data.

For those who choose to download the HCP data and begin to analyze it, we encourage you to join the hcp-users discussion group (http://www.humanconnectome.org/contact/#subscribe), so that you can tune in to technical discussions on issues that may be of interest.