Lifespan 2.0 HCP-Aging & HCP-Development Release

[Elam, Jennifer]

News from the Human Connectome Project (HCP)

February 26, 2021

 

Lifespan 2.0 Release of HCP-Aging & HCP-Development Data 

The Lifespan Human Connectome Project (HCP) consortia for HCP-Aging & HCP-Development and Connectome Coordination Facility (CCF) are thrilled to announce the Lifespan 2.0 Release of imaging and behavioral data on the NIMH Data Archive (NDA)!

Lifespan HCP Release 2.0 includes cross-sectional visit 1 (V1) preprocessed structural and functional imaging data, unprocessed V1 imaging data for all included modalities (structural, high-res hippocampal T2, resting state fMRI, task fMRI, diffusion, and ASL), and non-imaging demographic and behavioral assessment data from 725 HCP-Aging (HCP-A, ages 36-100+) and 652 HCP-Development (HCP-D, ages 5-21) healthy participants, respectively (22+ TB of data/project!). 

What’s new in the Lifespan 2.0 release?

• Preprocessed rfMRI and tfMRI data available for ALL release subjects
• Processed sMRI and fMRI data in modality- and processing output-specific "HCP package" datasets 
• HCP packages cater to different analysis purposes can be used as filters on the Lifespan 2.0 NDA Query page to create custom download packages
  
• Most users should access Preprocessed Recommended data that have been cleaned of spatially specific structured noise and precisely aligned across subjects by multimodal cortical surface registration (MSMAll) 
  
• Behavioral and biomeasure data available for all released subjects, including NIH Toolbox measures for most subjects. 

Get Access and Download the data: Get started with the Data Access and Download Instructions for navigating NDA and using it's download tools. We've also created a wiki that details setup steps for downloading data via NDA's command line tools.

If you have trouble navigating the NDA for getting access or downloading the data using their tools do not hesitate to contact the NDA helpdesk. NDA needs your user feedback. 

Want more information?  Check out our updated documentation to help with understanding the file structure and interpreting the data:

• Updated File Names and Directory Structure appendix organized by HCP package/download filters
• Per subject imaging and behavioral completeness, QC Issues, and unrelated status available in CSV spreadsheets for each study:
• HCP-Aging Completeness CSV
• HCP-Development Completeness CSV
• Behavioral data "Crosswalk" Data Dictionary Excel spreadsheet to translate NDA data structures/elements to HCP behavioral variables and instruments
• Behavioral & Clinical Instrument Details and references appendix

Join the Community. If you are actively using HCP data and tools, we encourage you to join and be active in the HCP-Users Google group, so that you can ask questions and tune in to technical discussions on issues that may be of interest. Once you have joined (posts from nonmembers are moderated to control spam), post questions to hcp-...@humanconnectome.org.  

Thanks again for your interest in HCP Lifespan and enjoy the data!

Best,

Lifespan consortia for HCP-Aging & HCP-Development and the Connectome Coordination Facility

Jennifer Elam, Ph.D.
Scientific Outreach, Human Connectome Project
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Neuroscience, Box 8108
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
314-362-9387
el...@wustl.edu
www.humanconnectome.org