If you missed today’s NIF Webinar by Russell Poldrack on the Cognitive Atlas, you can still enjoy all the fun!

NIF Webinars are routinely recorded and made available to the entire neuroscience community through the NIF Webinar archive.

Find today’s recording at the NIF Webinar archive at http://www.neuinfo.org/webinars/archive.shtm, along with recordings of all the Webinars we have held.

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Here are the top 25 accessed databases at NIF for April 2012:

1.            Grants.gov/Opportunity
2.            AntibodyRegistry/ABs
3.            CCDB/All Information
4.            SumsDB/Activation Foci
5.            GENSAT/GENSAT
6.            BrainInfo/Brain Region
7.            Drug Related Gene Database/DRG
8.            ResearchCrossroads/Grants
9.            NIF Integrated Nervous System/Connectivity
10.          ClinicalTrials/ClinTr
11.          DrugBank/Drugs
12.          Gemma/Microarray
13.          RePORTER/CurrentNIHGrants
14.          OneMind/BioBanks
15.          NIF Integrated Software/Info
16.          NIF Integrated Animals/Available
17.          GEO/Gene Expression Omnibus
18.          BrainMaps/Atlas
19.          HumanBrainAtlas/Michigan
20.          OMIM/Genes
21.          BAMS/BrainRegions
22.          OpenfMRI/Databases
23.          ModelDB/Models
24.          NIF Integrated Disease/Info
25.          AllenInstitute/MouseBrainAtlas

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF for April 2012:

1.  antibodyregistry
2.  Database OR Databases OR “Database resource” OR “Data base
3.  field AND receptive
4.  EEGbase
5.  Cerebellum
6.  openfmri
7.  Amygdala OR “Amygdaloid complex” OR “amygdaloid body” OR “amygdaloid nucleus” OR archistriatum
8.  Hippocampus OR “ammon horn” OR “Ammon’s horn” OR “hippocampus proper” OR “Cornu ammonis”
9.  “Cerebellum Purkinje cell” OR “Cerebellar Purkinje neuron” OR “Purkinje Cell” OR “Purkinje’s corpuscles” OR “Purkinje neuron”
10.  Neuron OR “nerve cell” OR “neuron cell”
11.  “Frontal lobe”
12.  “Corpus callosum”
13.  GSE9134
14.   “Drug Related Gene Database”
15.  “Cerebral cortex” OR Cortex
16.  “Commissure of fornix” OR “fornical commissure” OR “hippocampal commissure” OR “dorsal hippocampal commissure”
17.  “Fusiform gyrus”
18.  “Hair Cell”
19.  “Olfactory bulb mitral cell” OR MC OR “Mitral neuron” OR “Olfactory bulb main mitral cell” OR “Mitral cell”
20.  Hypothalamus OR Hy
21.  GSE7762
22.  “Cingulate cortex”
23.  “NITRC \- Neuroimaging Informatics Tools AND Resources Clearinghouse”
24.  “Decussation of superior cerebellar peduncle” OR xscp
25.  “Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell” OR OPC

Hello everyone.

Please mark your calendars.

The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Dr. Russell Poldrack as he discusses Cognitive Atlas.

The following is a description of the Webinar:

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Russell Poldrack, about the Cognitive Atlas, which is a collaborative knowledge building project that aims to develop a knowledge base (or ontology) that characterizes the state of current thought in cognitive science. Harmonization of this terminology with CogPO will be a portion of this discussion. Dr. Poldrack also runs the open fMRI data center and will discuss how terminology in the Cognitive Atlas impacts the data collection at open fMRI.

Russell Poldrack is a Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin and the Cognitive Atlas is a collaboration with the UCLA Center for Computational Biology (A. Toga, PI) and UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (R. Bilder, PI). It is supported by grant RO1MH082795 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Cognitive Atlas
Presenter: Dr. Russell Poldrack
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org

Hello everyone.

Please mark your calendars.

The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Drs. Angie Laird & Jessica Turner as they discuss the Mind Research Network and BrainMap projects.

The following is a description of the webinar:

Drs. Turner and Laird will discuss a cooperative project between the Mind Research Network and BrainMap projects to consistently gather and annotate fMRI data. Both projects represent cognitive processes using the CogPO ontology, a community standard for representing cognitive paradigms. CogPO is used because while the experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience literature may refer to certain behavioral paradigms by name (eg. the Stroop paradigm or the Sternberg paradigm) or by function (a working memory task, a visual attention task), these paradigms can vary tremendously in the stimuli that are presented to the subject, the response expected from the subject, and the instructions given to the subject. Disentangling the various paradigms into their components may help to disentangle the complex data from fMRI experiments.

Background on BrainMap:
The BrainMap Project is developed at the Research Imaging Institute of the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. BrainMap was conceived in 1988 and originally developed as a web-based interface. After more than 20 years of development, BrainMap has evolved into a much broader project whose software and data have been utilized in numerous publications. BrainMap provides not only data for meta-analyses and data mining, but also distributes software and concepts for quantitative integration of neuroimaging data. The BrainMap Project is developed at the Research Imaging Institute of the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. BrainMap was conceived in 1988 and originally developed as a web-based interface. After more than 20 years of development, BrainMap has evolved into a much broader project whose software and data have been utilized in numerous publications. BrainMap provides not only data for meta-analyses and data mining, but also distributes software and concepts for quantitative integration of neuroimaging data.

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Mind Research Network and BrainMap projects
Presenters: Drs. Angie Laird & Jessica Turner
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org

Hello everyone,

The recent webinar held on April 24, 2012 about mental functioning ontology is now available in the webinar archives on the NIF site.

You can also see the webinar here.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org

Hello everyone.

Please mark your calendars.

The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Janna Hastings as she discusses Mental Functioning Ontology.

The following is a description of the webinar:

The Mental Functioning Ontology is an overarching modular ontology covering all aspects of mental functioning, including mental processes such as cognition and traits such as intelligence.  It provides a grounding in an upper level ontology and a framework within which mental functioning can be related to other levels of description within other ontologies, such as anatomy and biochemistry. Modules which are currently actively under development are those for cognition and emotion, and separately, related diseases and affective disorders. MFO is being developed in the context of the Ontology for General Medical Science and the Basic Formal Ontology, and is currently a collaboration between the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the University at Buffalo, USA, although the collaborative development model is expected to extend to further partners in the future. The project is being developed with full involvement of all relevant communities, following best practices laid out by the OBO Foundry.

Date and Time: Tuesday, April24, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Mental Functioning Ontology
Presenter: Janna Hastings
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF for the week of April 8, 2012:

1. antibodyregistry
2. Cerebellum
3. Database OR Databases OR “Database resource” OR “Data base”
4. Hippocampus OR “ammon horn” OR “Ammon’s horn” OR “hippocampus proper” OR “Cornu ammonis”
5. Neuron  OR “nerve cell” OR “neuron cell”
6. field AND  receptive
7. “Cerebellum Purkinje cell” OR “Cerebellar Purkinje neuron” OR “Purkinje Cell” OR “Purkinje’s corpuscles” OR “Purkinje neuron”
8. Drug Related Gene Database
9. GSE9134
10. “brat rapid annotation tool”
11. Frontal lobe
12. “Flocculonodular lobe”
13. “Olfactory bulb mitral cell” OR MC OR “Mitral neuron” OR “Olfactory bulb main mitral cell” OR “Mitral cell”
14. “Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell” OR OPC
15. “Basal forebrain”
16. “Corpus callosum”
17. Fusiform gyrus
18. Commissure of fornix OR “fornical commissure” OR “hippocampal commissure” OR “dorsal hippocampal commissure”
19. “Entorhinal cortex” OR “entorhinal area”
20. “Calcarine Fissure”
21. “Olfactory epithelium sensory cell” OR “olfactory receptor” OR “Olfactory receptor neuron” OR “olfactory receptor cell” OR ORN OR “olfactory sensory cell” OR “olfactory sensory neuron” OR OSN
22. GSE7762
23. Internship
24. “Cingulate cortex”
25. GABAergic neuron

Here are the top 25 accessed databases for NIF for the week of April 8, 2012:

1.            Grants.gov/Opportunity
2.            SumsDB/Activation Foci
3.            AntibodyRegistry/ABs
4.            CCDB/All Information
5.            GENSAT/GENSAT
6.            ResearchCrossroads/Grants
7.            Drug Related Gene Database/DRG
8.            BrainInfo/Brain Region
9.            ClinicalTrials/ClinTr
10.          OneMind/BioBanks
11.          RePORTER/CurrentNIHGrants
12.          Gemma/Microarray
13.          NIF Integrated Nervous System/Connectivity
14.          DrugBank/Drugs
15.          BrainMaps/Atlas
16.          GEO/Gene Expression Omnibus
17.          NIF Integrated Animals/Available
18.          AllenInstitute/MouseBrainAtlas
19.          BAMS/BrainRegions
20.          OMIM/Genes
21.          NIF Integrated Disease/Info
22.          NIF Integrated Video/Videos
23.          CRCNS/ModelData
24.          NeuroMorpho/NeuronInfo
25.          NIF Integrated Podcast/Podcasts

Hello everyone,

Please mark your calendars.

The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Dr. Gwen Frishkoff as she discusses Harmonizing the Representation of Cognitive Processes.

The following is a description of the webinar:

Dr. Frishkoff will discuss harmonization of NEMO, a formal ontology for studies of human electrophysiology, and cogPO, an ontology of cognitive neuroscience protocols (experiment design) that is based on BrainMap. The goal of  integrating NEMO and cogPO is to create a framework to support valid mappings from brain to mental functioning. Mental functions are inferred from measurements of brain and behavioral data within specific experiment contexts. Thus, in order to create an ontology for mental functioning that is evidence-based, it will be important to consider the logical and empirical bases for these inferences. We will discuss some insights that could be gained by representing brain data within a formal ontology that also captures the experimental context for these measures in a fine-grained, analytic way.

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Harmonizing the Representation of Cognitive Processes
Presenter: Dr. Gwen Frishkoff.
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Access Code: 8220739

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org