UCLA Brain Mapping Center

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Offering to share: how to put heads together in autism neuroimaging.

Belmonte MK; Mazziotta JC; Minshew NJ; Evans AC; Courchesne E; Dager SR; Bookheimer SY; Aylward EH; Amaral DG; Cantor RM; Chugani DC; Dale AM; Davatzikos C; Gerig G; Herbert MR; Lainhart JE; Murphy DG; Piven J; Reiss AL; Schultz RT; Zeffiro TA; Levi-Pearl S; Lajonchere C; Colamarino SA;
Journal of autism and developmental disorders. 2008-Jan; 38(2-13):1
 
Data sharing in autism neuroimaging presents scientific, technical, and social obstacles. We outline the desiderata for a data-sharing scheme that combines imaging with other measures of phenotype and with genetics, defines requirements for comparability of derived data and recommendations for raw data, outlines a core protocol including multispectral structural and diffusion-tensor imaging and optional extensions, provides for the collection of prospective, confound-free normative data, and extends sharing and collaborative development not only to data but to the analytical tools and methods applied to these data. A theme in these requirements is the need to preserve creative approaches and risk-taking within individual laboratories at the same time as common standards are provided for these laboratories to build on.
 
PMID: 17347882    doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0352-2
 

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