Child Mind Institute (CMI)
Overview
The Child Mind Institute is an independent non-profit dedicated to children’s mental health and learning disorders, and a producer of open neuroscience data through its Center for the Developing Brain. It is the organisation behind INDI (the International Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative), which openly releases aggregated neuroimaging collections, and behind the Healthy Brain Network, a community-referred study that has openly shared multimodal phenotypic, imaging, and recording data from thousands of New York area children and adolescents. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, CMI combines clinical care with research labs that build and release open datasets, open-source analysis software, and open assessment tools.
Open data and infrastructure
CMI’s open-science activity runs through several efforts. INDI aggregates and openly releases prospectively-shared neuroimaging datasets contributed by sites worldwide, including ABIDE, ADHD-200, the Consortium for Reliability and Reproducibility, and the non-human PRIMatE Data Exchange, hosted on NITRC and the AWS Open Data registry.
The Healthy Brain Network is CMI’s flagship study, openly sharing de-identified data on psychiatric, behavioral, cognitive, and lifestyle phenotypes alongside multimodal MRI, EEG, eye-tracking, voice and video recordings, genetics, and actigraphy from a target of 10,000 participants aged 5 to 21. It also collects physical biospecimens including baby teeth and hair samples for metals analysis. The data was released through eleven dataset releases between 2017 and 2022 via the NITRC/INDI portal, with MRI data collection concluding in 2023. The Healthy Brain Network EEG data has since been republished as a FAIR resource in BIDS format with HED annotation, hosted on OpenNeuro and NEMAR.
Connections
- relatedTo: NITRC (Child Mind Institute data initiatives are hosted and distributed through NITRC)
Resources
- https://childmind.org
- https://childmind.org/science/global-open-science/data-sharing-initiatives/
- https://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/cmi_healthy_brain_network/ (Healthy Brain Network data portal)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.181 (Alexander et al. 2017, Healthy Brain Network resource paper)