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Prado P, Medel V, Gonzalez-Gomez R, Sainz-Ballesteros A, Vidal V, Santamaría-García H, Moguilner S, Mejia J, Slachevsky A, Behrens MI, Aguillon D, Lopera F, Parra MA, Matallana D, Maito MA, Garcia AM, Custodio N, Funes AÁ, Piña-Escudero S, Birba A, Fittipaldi S, Legaz A, Ibañez A. The BrainLat project, a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of neurodegeneration from underrepresented backgrounds. Sci Data 2023; 10:889. [PMID: 38071313 PMCID: PMC10710425 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02806-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) has released a unique multimodal neuroimaging dataset of 780 participants from Latin American. The dataset includes 530 patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease (PD), and 250 healthy controls (HCs). This dataset (62.7 ± 9.5 years, age range 21-89 years) was collected through a multicentric effort across five Latin American countries to address the need for affordable, scalable, and available biomarkers in regions with larger inequities. The BrainLat is the first regional collection of clinical and cognitive assessments, anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), resting-state functional MRI (fMRI), diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI), and high density resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) in dementia patients. In addition, it includes demographic information about harmonized recruitment and assessment protocols. The dataset is publicly available to encourage further research and development of tools and health applications for neurodegeneration based on multimodal neuroimaging, promoting the assessment of regional variability and inclusion of underrepresented participants in research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Pavel Prado
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Escuela de Fonoaudiología, Facultad de Odontología y Ciencias de la Rehabilitación, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
| | - Raul Gonzalez-Gomez
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
| | - Hernando Santamaría-García
- PhD Neuroscience Program, Physiology and Psychiatry Departments, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Memory and Cognition Center Intellectus, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
- Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Sebastian Moguilner
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés & CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jhony Mejia
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Departamento de Ingeniería Biomédica, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- Memory and Aging Clinic, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
| | - Andrea Slachevsky
- Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory (LANNEC), Physiopathology Department - Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBM), Neurocience and East Neuroscience Departments, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism, (GERO), Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Memory and Neuropsychiatric Center (CMYN), Memory Unit - Neurology Department, Hospital del Salvador and Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Servicio de Neurología, Departamento de Medicina, Clínica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile, Chile
| | - Maria Isabel Behrens
- Centro de Investigación Clínica Avanzada (CICA), Facultad de Medicina-Hospital Clínico, Universidad de Chile, Independencia, Santiago, 8380453, Chile
- Departamento de Neurología y Neurocirugía, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Independencia, Santiago, 8380430, Chile
- Departamento de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Independencia, Santiago, 8380453, Chile
- Departamento de Neurología y Psiquiatría, Clínica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, 8370065, Chile
| | - David Aguillon
- Grupo de Neurociencias de Antioquia de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
| | - Francisco Lopera
- Grupo de Neurociencias de Antioquia de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
| | - Diana Matallana
- PhD Neuroscience Program, Physiology and Psychiatry Departments, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Memory and Cognition Center Intellectus, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia
- Mental Health Department, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Memory Clinic, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Marcelo Adrián Maito
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés & CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés & CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile
| | - Nilton Custodio
- Unit Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Prevention, Peruvian Institute of Neurosciences, Lima, Peru
| | - Alberto Ávila Funes
- Geriatrics Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Stefanie Piña-Escudero
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
- Memory and Aging Clinic, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
| | - Agustina Birba
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés & CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto Universitario de Neurociencia, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
| | - Sol Fittipaldi
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés & CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Agustina Legaz
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés & CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Agustín Ibañez
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
- Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés & CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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