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The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) data repository: Structural and functional MRI, MEG, and cognitive data from a cross-sectional adult lifespan sample.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Taylor, Jason R 
Williams, Nitin 
Cusack, Rhodri 
Auer, Tibor 
Shafto, Meredith A 

Abstract

This paper describes the data repository for the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) initial study cohort. The Cam-CAN Stage 2 repository contains multi-modal (MRI, MEG, and cognitive-behavioural) data from a large (approximately N=700), cross-sectional adult lifespan (18-87years old) population-based sample. The study is designed to characterise age-related changes in cognition and brain structure and function, and to uncover the neurocognitive mechanisms that support healthy cognitive ageing. The database contains raw and preprocessed structural MRI, functional MRI (active tasks and resting state), and MEG data (active tasks and resting state), as well as derived scores from cognitive behavioural experiments spanning five broad domains (attention, emotion, action, language, and memory), and demographic and neuropsychological data. The dataset thus provides a depth of neurocognitive phenotyping that is currently unparalleled, enabling integrative analyses of age-related changes in brain structure, brain function, and cognition, and providing a testbed for novel analyses of multi-modal neuroimaging data.

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Keywords

Ageing, Brain imaging, Cognition, Data repository, Magnetic resonance imaging, Magnetoencephalography, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Brain, Cognition, Cross-Sectional Studies, Databases, Factual, Female, Functional Neuroimaging, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetoencephalography, Male, Middle Aged, Neurosciences, Young Adult

Journal Title

Neuroimage

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Journal ISSN

1053-8119
1095-9572

Volume Title

144

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/H008217/1)
Wellcome Trust (103838/Z/14/Z)
MRC (unknown)
Medical Research Council (MC_U105597119)
Medical Research Council (MC_U105579226)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00005/12)