CNEURO — Centro de Neurociencias de Cuba
Overview
The Centro de Neurociencias de Cuba (CNEURO, Cuban Neuroscience Center) is a research and high-technology development institute in Havana, part of the Cuban biotechnology and pharmaceutical group BioCubaFarma. Officially established in 1990 from a National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC) neurophysiology lineage going back to the 1960s, it develops multimodal neuroimaging methods, quantitative EEG analysis, and neurotechnology, and has a long-standing record of releasing open data and open-source analysis tools. CNEURO coordinates the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project, a population-based brain health effort in Havana organised with the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), and its work is notable as open neuroscience infrastructure originating from a middle-income country, an area under-represented in global open datasets.
Open data and tools
CNEURO coordinates the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project (CHBMP), an open multimodal dataset of 282 healthy young and middle-aged participants combining high-density resting-state EEG, MRI, and cognitive testing, described in a 2021 Scientific Data descriptor. The dataset is openly available through a dedicated LORIS instance that forms part of the MNI neuroinformatics ecosystem, and is distributed through the CONP (Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform) using DataLad. CNEURO also released the qEEGt quantitative EEG toolbox as open-source code, integrated into the CBRAIN platform within the same ecosystem. This work is carried out in long-standing collaboration with the MNI at McGill University and within the Cuba-Canada-China collaboration and the Global Brain Consortium.
Connections
- relatedTo: MNI (long-standing Cuba-Canada neuroimaging collaboration; CHBMP hosted within the MNI neuroinformatics ecosystem)
- relatedTo: CONP (CHBMP distributed through the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform)
Resources
- https://www.cneuro.cu
- https://chbmp-open.loris.ca (CHBMP open dataset on LORIS)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00829-7 (Valdes-Sosa et al. 2021, Scientific Data — CHBMP descriptor)
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2020.00033 (Bosch-Bayard et al. 2020, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics — qEEGt toolbox)