Abstract
The goal of the Brain Genomics Superstruct Project (GSP) is to enable large-scale exploration of the links between brain function, behavior, and ultimately genetic variation. To provide the broader scientific community data to probe these associations, a repository of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans linked to genetic information was constructed from a sample of healthy individuals. The initial release, detailed in the present manuscript, encompasses quality screened cross-sectional data from 1,570 participants ages 18 to 35 years who were scanned with MRI and completed demographic and health questionnaires. Personality and cognitive measures were obtained on a subset of participants. Each dataset contains a T1-weighted structural MRI scan and either one (n=1,570) or two (n=1,139) resting state functional MRI scans. Test-retest reliability datasets are included from 69 participants scanned within six months of their initial visit. For the majority of participants self-report behavioral and cognitive measures are included (n=926 and n=892 respectively). Analyses of data quality, structure, function, personality, and cognition are presented to demonstrate the dataset’s utility.
Design Type(s) | time series design • Observational Study • Test-retest Reliability |
Measurement Type(s) | nuclear magnetic resonance assay • Personality Traits |
Technology Type(s) | MRI Scanner • Patient Self-Report |
Factor Type(s) | |
Sample Characteristic(s) | Homo sapiens • brain |
Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data (ISA-Tab format)
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Background & Summary
Recent advances in neuroimaging provide tools to measure structure and map functional networks in the human brain, albeit with limitations inherent to safe, non-invasive approaches1–3. The low participant burden of these techniques makes them particularly well suited for large, high-throughput studies. Taking advantage of these innovations, the Brain Genomics Superstruct Project (GSP) was initiated to yield a dataset of structural, functional, behavioral, and genetic information on a large number of clinically normal participants that could be analyzed on its own or combined with other large-scale data collection efforts4–9. The dataset is intended to allow exploration of normative properties of brain structure and function, and link individual differences to behavioral phenotypes and genetic origins. The present data descriptor manuscript details the initial release of structural, functional, and behavioral measures.
The approach taken by the GSP is captured in its name—‘superstruct’. ‘Superstruct’ means to erect upon a foundation of another structure. The foundation for the GSP was the large number of ongoing research studies already taking place on matched Siemens 3T Tim Trio scanners across the Boston research community. A rapid structural and functional imaging protocol was developed and shared with the community that could be added onto existing research studies. The brief protocol could also be run during scheduling gaps between other studies. Saliva was collected at the time of scan (for DNA extraction) along with core demographic and health information; a website link was provided for more extensive behavioral phenotyping that included IQ estimates, personality, social and emotional probes, and a series of additional cognitive tasks. By linking existing investigator-initiated studies to a common acquisition protocol, the GSP data aggregation strategy was able to accumulate over 3,000 unique data sets in under 4 years.
Data are documented and shared in standard formats to avoid imposing dependencies on proprietary software and/or processing packages. Beginning with the initial release of data from 1,570 healthy young adults, GSP datasets are selected to encourage investigation in areas of high interest at a scale that would be difficult for individual laboratories to acquire. By compiling and freely distributing these data, we hope to increase the pace of discovery and facilitate future advances in basic and clinical neuroscience.
Methods
Utility and limitations of the GSP sample
Features of the GSP acquisition strategy are relevant to understanding the utility and limitations of the dataset. The GSP data collection effort is built on a rapid acquisition protocol being tagged onto existing neuroimaging research studies of healthy control participants. The approach translated new technologies into increased speed of acquisition. The total acquisition time was ~15 min for the basic protocol and ~30 min for more extensive imaging. Thus, the imaging sequences are brief (~2 min for the T1 weighted structural image and ~6 min for each resting-state functional MRI scan). This allowed a very large sample to be acquired quickly and reduced the risk of movement, but also led to attrition, as there were no backup sequences if data quality was compromised. Second, the strategy used a convenience sample from the Boston community that frequently included well-educated individuals with relatively high IQs (many of the college age students are from local colleges with a small fraction coming from Harvard itself). The dispersion of estimated IQ scores is positively shifted relative to the general population. By contrast, many personality traits, such as negative affect, have distributions that would be expected of a clinically-screened population-based sample. Analyses of the GSP data should consider its demographic properties.
Participants
Between 2008 and 2012 young adults (ages 18 to 35) with normal or corrected-to-normal vision were recruited from the Boston community to participate in the GSP. The 1,570 participants included in the release were selected from a larger database of individuals who participated in the ongoing GSP data collection initiative. Many of the participants were aware of the study through local college recruitment efforts and through studies connected to Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Among the participants enrolled as college students, only a minority were recruited directly from students of Harvard University. Participants were only enrolled if they were participating in a study of normal (non-clinical) brain function or serving as a control participant in a case-control study of a clinical population. Participants provided written informed consent in accordance with guidelines established by the Partners Health Care Institutional Review Board and the Harvard University Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research (See Supplementary Appendix A for representative study consent forms). Only those individuals who agreed to data sharing are included in the present release. The broader GSP control sample, which has over 3,000 participants, includes individuals over the age of 35 and also several hundred datasets acquired using a 32-channel head coil. The present release represents a subset of the control sample, ages 18–35, acquired uniformly on the same model 12-channel head coil, with data meeting quality control criteria as described below.
Participation in the GSP comprised four components. Participants were asked to: 1) complete a basic set of demographic and health questionnaires just before, or directly after, the scan; 2) undergo a series of structural and functional MRI scans; 3) provide a saliva sample before and after the scan; and 4) complete a web-based battery of behavioral, cognitive, and personality assessments. Demographic and health questionnaires included information concerning the participants’ physical health, past and present history of psychiatric illness, medication usage, and family history of psychiatric illness. Participants were excluded from the present data release if their self-reported health information indicated current/past history of Axis I pathology or neurological disorder, current psychotropic medication usage and/or acute physical illness, or displayed atypical brain anatomy (n=218).
Analyses of portions of the demographic, behavioral, and imaging data obtained from participants in this release have been previously reported10–22.
MRI data acquisition
All imaging data were collected on matched 3T Tim Trio scanners (Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany) at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital using the vendor-supplied 12-channel phased-array head coil. Structural data included a high-resolution (1.2 mm isotropic) multi-echo T1-weighted magnetization-prepared gradient-echo image (multi-echo MPRAGE23; Table 1; See Supplementary Appendix B for relevant DICOM header field values). The low participant burden resulting from the use of multi-echo MPRAGE anatomical scans makes this sequence well suited for high-throughput studies. The morphometric features derived through conventional 6-min 1 mm MPRAGE and the 2-min 1.2 mm multi-echo MPRAGE are highly consistent (r2>0.9 for most structures)24 suggesting that rapid acquisition multi-echo MPRAGE can be used for many purposes in place of longer anatomical scans without degradation of the quantitative morphometric estimates. Rapid acquisition is also beneficial because it lessens the opportunity for within-scan motion.
Functional imaging data were acquired using a gradient-echo echo-planar imaging (EPI) sequence sensitive to blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) contrast (Table 1; See Supplementary Appendix C for relevant DICOM header field values)25,26. Whole brain coverage including the entire cerebellum was achieved with slices aligned to the anterior commissure-posterior commissure plane using an automated alignment procedure that ensured consistency among subjects27. BOLD runs consisted of 47 interleaved slices (foot—head; 1, 3, 5 … 45, 47, 2, 4, 6 …, 44, 46). One hundred and twenty-four measurements were collected for each BOLD run (TR=3000 msec; 4 initial TRs collected to allow for T1-stablization and 120 valid measurements). During BOLD data collection participants were instructed to remain still, stay awake, and keep their eyes open while blinking normally. Eyes open rest, without the use of a fixation cross-hair, was chosen because of comparability to fixation (in contrast to eyes closed rest) in provisional tests28 and critically because it did not require a visual apparatus which was not always available through the base research studies. One or two BOLD runs were acquired per subject (72.6% of sessions included two runs). Software upgrades (B13, B15, B17) occurred over the course of the data collection and reflect the only known difference in acquisition that took place across the 1,570 sessions. The software version is included in the data descriptors to allow it to be co-varied, and the test-retest data include individuals scanned between software versions to quantify effects, if any, of software version.
Online cognitive and self-report batteries
Following MRI data collection, participants were provided a card with a random de-identified code and two web addresses to conduct an online battery of cognitive, behavioral, and personality assessments spanning a broad range of domains (See Supplementary Appendix D for a list of the phenotypes included in the present release). The behavioral and personality assessments were hosted on a secure internal server and presented through the LimeSurvey user interface (http://www.limesurvey.org/). Cognitive assessments were presented through an internally developed collection of standard cognitive assessments administered using Adobe Flash from Creative Suite 3 (http://www.adobe.com/; see Code availability). Prior work indicates that self-selected participants completing unsupervised online batteries of cognitive and perceptual tasks can provide data consistent with traditionally recruited and/or lab-tested samples29. As an additional quality control procedure, participants’ data were excluded if they demonstrated non-compliance during either battery. Participants were considered non-compliant for the behavioral and personality portion if they failed to initiate or did not complete the entire online assessment, failed to answer more than two questions, or admitted to seeking outside assistance during the completion of the battery. Participants’ were considered non-compliant during the online cognitive portion if they committed more than two errors in a simple keyboard response task, made an erroneous response on one or more ‘catch’ trials placed through the session, responded with excessively slow response times (≥2 s), or failed to complete the battery. ‘Catch’ trials consisted of simple trials designed to seamlessly integrate with the administered tasks. They are correctly answerable with minimal effort/attention on the part of the participants and meant to identify gross non-compliance with task instructions. The Profile of Mood States (POMS)30 was incorporated into the self-report battery following the start of GSP data collection. Accordingly, this measure is available in a subset of the broader sample (n=897).
Genetics collection
Saliva samples were collected using two Oragene saliva kits (Oragene, DNA Genotek). The initial saliva sample was collected after consenting the participant, immediately prior to the scan. For backup purposes, a second saliva sample was collected immediately following the scan. The genetic data are planned for release in the future but are not included as part of this initial data release.
Data security
Data from all paper surveys, MRI acquisitions, and test batteries were archived in a custom deployment of the eXtensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT)31. Access was restricted by user authentication and role-based access controls. Each dataset was uploaded via the DICOM protocol to the XNAT system from the MRI scanner console directly, or from an external application such as DicomBrowser (http://hg.xnat.org/dicombrowser). Newly uploaded data were stored in a temporary ‘PreArchive.’ Designated study staff ‘Archived’ datasets into the respective XNAT Project that identified the laboratory that collected the data. Once a dataset was assigned to a Project, those data were only viewable by users assigned read privilege to that Project.
Quality control
Movement and degraded data quality can confound results15,32–34. Images in the GSP were screened for artifacts, acquisition problems, processing errors and excessive motion. Each image was viewed on a per-slice basis along each principal axis. Typical data quality issues included electronic noise resulting in bright lines through multiple slices, motion artifacts appearing as hazy bands across the image, poor head positioning resulting in wraparound artifacts, distortions from dental work, and limited image contrast (n=54). BOLD scans with slice-based temporal signal-to-noise ratio (sSNR) less than 100 were excluded from the release dataset (n=88; See Technical Validation; measures of rest scan data quality).
BOLD functional runs were automatically processed through the Automated Functional MRI Quality Assessment tool35 to derive estimates of slice-based temporal sSNR, number of relative translations in 3D space ≥0.1 mm (micro-movements), and maximum absolute translation in 3D space (mm). The slice-based SNR was calculated as the weighted mean of each slice’s mean intensity over time (weighted by the size of the slice). The number of movements ≥0.1 mm was calculated by determining the root mean square of the rigid body translations and rotations for motion correction using MCFLIRT from the FSL suite36. Each series was aligned to the initial TR, after dropping the first four image volumes for signal stabilization purposes. The maximum absolute translation was calculated as the absolute value of the maximum movement observed.
Post-processing
Imaging data were converted from DICOM to NIfTI-1 format (http://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/) using mri_convert from FreeSurfer v4.5.0 (http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/). The de-identification of the high-resolution anatomical images was completed through the mask_face software37, which ‘blurs’ facial anatomy. Facial blurring was selected for data anonymization as traditional skull stripping algorithms may lead to the failure of automated pre-processing pipelines and/or remove anatomical features necessary for the calculation of intracranial volume and cerebrospinal fluid volume37.
Users should be aware that face distortion of anatomical data could influence morphometric estimates. These effects are not uniform across the brain and can arise from the template registration procedures and other steps that are embedded within automated processing pipelines. To characterize the effect of face blurring on analyses of brain anatomy, the release data were processed in FreeSurfer 4.5.0 both before and after de-identification. FreeSurfer provides automated algorithms for subcortical volumetric segmentation and the estimation of cortical thickness38,39, allowing users to analyze estimated cortical thickness independent of cortical volume. Cortical thickness was calculated as the closest distance from the gray/white boundary to the gray/CSF boundary at each vertex on the tessellated surface39. Using the strategy detailed in Buckner et al.40, a study-optimized reference template was created from 700 subjects available through the existing dataset.
Subjects whose automated morphometric assessments of head size changed by more than 1.5% as a function of face blurring were excluded from the data release (n=16). Analyses of the released data revealed that large morphometric features, such as estimated intracranial volume, were robust to the effects of face blurring (Pearson r=0.99; Supplementary Fig. 1). However, subcortical volumes (e.g., amygdala, r=0.96) and estimated cortical thicknesses (e.g., medial prefrontal cortical thickness, r=0.90) proved more sensitive to the effects of face blurring. To provide pre-blurred estimates of brain structure, the morphometric values for each participant, computed on their respective raw anatomical scans through FreeSurfer 4.5.0, are included in the initial data release. Participants were processed in a fully automated manner, without manual corrections, and the resulting data were visually inspected for errors. Nonetheless, end users of the present dataset and other datasets that use face blurring (e.g., the NIH Human Connectome Project) should be aware that the procedure could induce subtle effects on data processing, especially if standard non-tailored atlas targets are employed.
Code availability
Study data were archived with the XNAT open-source imaging informatics software platform31 (http://www.xnat.org/). Neuroimaging data were analyzed through the use of standard processing pipelines (e.g., http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/). Online survey data were collected through the LimeSurvey user interface (http://www.limesurvey.org/). Online cognitive batteries were administered through an internally developed collection of standard cognitive assessments administered using Adobe Flash from Creative Suite 3 (http://www.adobe.com/). Simple procedural Actionscript configured the responses to be captured for each trial and the order in which the trials were presented to the subject. Recorded responses were sent to a PHP server and stored in a MySQL database. Over the course of the GSP collection data were downloaded using the server's web dashboard. The custom cognitive battery code is hard linked to libraries and images we do not have the authority to distribute. Accordingly, the code used for this specific component is currently not freely available for download.
Data Records
Obtaining the dataset
The ‘Brain Genomics Superstruct Project (GSP)’ initial release dataset of structural, functional, and behavioral measures is available for download (http://neuroinformatics.harvard.edu/gsp/). Step-by-step instructions detailing how to access the release dataset are available online in the ‘Request Access’ page (http://neuroinformatics.harvard.edu/gsp/get). Details regarding the format of available data, imaging sequences, download procedures, as well as answers to commonly asked questions and the description of phenotypes included in the present release are provided in the GSP_README_140630.pdf file (updated versions will be named accordingly to reflect release date, e.g., GSP_README_150530.pdf). Users are encouraged to view the accompanying video tutorials. Data are made available through the Harvard Dataverse Network (http://neuroinformatics.harvard.edu/gsp/dataverse, Data Citation 1). The LONI Image Data Archive provides an additional option for data download (Data Citation 2).
Briefly, in Dataverse imaging data are stored in 10 separate tar files, each containing 157 subjects. All 10 of the tar files must be downloaded to obtain the full dataset. In addition, there is a single description comma separated value (.csv) file (GSP_list_140630.csv) in the study ‘Documentation’ section that contains the demographic and phenotype data for all 1,570 unique subjects. Test-retest data are stored separately in a single tar file (GSP_retest_140630.tar) that contains both sessions for each of the 69 test-retest participants. A single description .csv file (GSP_retest_140630.csv) for the 69 test-retest subjects is included as well. Downloading the single test-retest tar file provides all of the data needed for analysis of reliability.
An extended set of phenotypes, listed in italics in Supplementary Appendix D, is available as part of an additional download. Presently this download is available from the LONI Image Data Archive. Given the increased sensitivity of the extended phenotypes, the LONI approval process requires that all users sign and mail, email, or fax a separate GSP Restricted Data Use Terms application to the Harvard Neuroinformatics Research Group. The internal review and approval process is based on the same criteria outlined in the GSP Restricted Data Use Terms application. Access will be provided to (1) Principal Investigators (PIs) of scientific research at a university, a research organization (including commercial entities) or a government agency who is the leader of a laboratory or research team or who is working independently; or (2) to users who provide the name of the PI who is overseeing their research and is approved for access under qualification 1. If a user does not meet either of the above criteria they may be considered qualified based on a track record of scientific publications or on the basis of a written reference from someone who meets qualification 1, verifying that the data will be used only for the purpose of legitimate scientific research. This restricted access procedure is modeled after the successful Washington University—Minnesota Human Connectome Project. Step-by-step instructions detailing how to access the extended release dataset are available online (http://neuroinformatics.harvard.edu/gsp/get). The extended release contains an additional .csv file (GSP_extended_140630.csv).
Imaging data
The GSP datasets are available in NIfTI-1 file format. Table 1 provides descriptions of the available sequences. Information available in the original DICOM header (e.g., precise slice acquisition timing) is provided in Supplementary Appendices B and C. The structural images are T1-weighted multi-echo MPRAGE images that are collected with 1.2 mm isotropic resolution23. The single anatomical image file contained in the release is the root mean square (RMS) average of the four echoes that were acquired. For most analytic purposes, the RMS average can be treated as a standard structural T1-weighted image. The BOLD data acquisitions include four timepoints before T1-stabilization has occurred. These images have increased signal relative to the remaining timepoints and should be discarded for most BOLD series analyses. The initial image, given its contrast and weighting, can be used for registration.
Phenotypic information
All phenotypic data are stored in .csv files. A description of phenotypes included in the present release is provided in Supplementary Appendix D and also appears in the GSP_README_140630.pdf file. Several phenotypes, listed in italics at the end of the Phenotypes Legend list, are separately available for download as part of an extended data release (http://neuroinformatics.harvard.edu/gsp/get).
Technical Validation
Overview
The current release contains data from 1,570 participants (age: 21.5±2.9; female: 57.6%; right handed: 92.3%; years of education: 14.5±1.9; estimated IQ 110.7±6.7). Additional demographic characteristics of the participants are reported in Table 2. Participants were recruited from Boston area universities and colleges, and the surrounding communities. Consistent with this recruitment strategy, approximately 92% of the sample was under the age of 27 at the date of scan (Table 3). As detailed in Supplementary Appendix D, to protect participant identity, select demographic features and details of data collection have been removed or binned.
Reliability scans
Development of meaningful imaging-based measures and biomarkers requires estimates of phenotype reliability41. To support this need, a supplementary dataset (n=69) was acquired over the course of the primary collection effort. Data were collected on two independent days separated by less than 6 months (77.2±55.9 days). These data can be used to estimate test-retest reliability for existing morphometric and functional measures as well as the refinement and evaluation of novel methods and coupled with existing open science resources for the assessment of test-retest reliability (e.g., http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/CoRR/html/)41. Many of the test pairs were acquired across two different scanners or across software console versions allowing reliability estimates that truly reflect the main sources of variance across the GSP sample.
As a demonstration of the utility of the reliability scan pairs, the structural images from each independent session were processed through the automated FreeSurfer pipeline separately. Pearson correlations were used to compare the morphometric estimates across the two visits (Table 4). Correlations range from 0.75 for the estimated cortical thickness of the right medial prefrontal cortex to 0.99 for the estimated intracranial volume. The observed patterns of regional variation in reliability could arise from instability in the morphometric pipeline, scan-rescan shifts in head positioning, hydration, or motion, which may disproportionately impact estimates of small structures and cortical thickness42–45. These reliability data are provided for analysis in isolation or to be combined with developing open repositories of reliability data41.
Construct validity of anatomic data
Having established the reliability of the morphometric estimates, anatomical features were analyzed to validate that commonly observed relations are present in the data and of typical magnitude. Estimated intracranial volume (ICV) and total brain volume are plotted in Fig. 1. As expected for a group of young adults where neurodegenerative processes have not begun46, ICV is highly correlated with brain volume (r=0.96). Head size differs between men and women40,47,48. Consistent with larger head size40,49,50, males displayed increased ICV, brain volume, and cortical surface area, relative to females, ranging from 12.4 to 13.8% [Fig. 1a–d; t(1568)=33.95, 32.88, 29.50, respectively; all ps<0.001]. Effective head size normalization should correct this difference. As highlighted in Supplementary Fig. 2, head size normalization accounts for sex differences in regional and whole-brain morphometric analyses40. No relations with sex emerged in the raw (uncorrected) data when considering average cortical thickness [t(1568)=0.80, P=0.43] consistent with models, and prior data, that suggest thickness increases minimally with head size49. Of interest, there was also no sex difference noted for cortical thickness as predicted by early neurodevelopmental models that hypothesize cortical surface area but not thickness differs across normal variability in head size. The dissociation between effects on surface area and thickness is quite dramatic in the contrasting plots of Fig. 1d and Fig. 1e.
ICV is stable across the adult lifespan. In the present data participant age did not associate with estimated ICV (r=−0.01; P=0.66). Brain volume (r=−0.08; P<0.005) and cortical surface area (r=−0.05; P<0.05) displayed modest relations, perhaps reflecting brain volume loss which is thought to be present, but small, in this age range50. Even with the compressed age range in the present sample, average cortical thickness was inversely associated with age (r=−0.27; P<0.001; Fig. 1e). Taken together, these results demonstrate that age-associated shifts in brain anatomy are evident early in life and that the extent of these effects varies based on the phenotype of interest.
Functional data quality
Data quality for the resting state scans was quantified through the Automated Functional MRI Quality Assessment Tool35. To facilitate quality assessment and data analyses a broad range of commonly used quantitative data quality metrics are included in the release dataset. Histograms of mean temporal sSNR values for the first and second rest runs are displayed in Fig. 2a. Histograms of number of relative movements in 3D space (>0.1 mm), and maximum absolute movement in 3D space (mm) for the first and second rest runs are presented in Supplementary Fig. 3a,b. Slice-based SNR was also used as exclusionary criteria. If the sSNR for the whole brain (mean sSNR over all slices within the brain mask weighted by the slice size) was less than 100 for the first BOLD run, all data from that participant were excluded from the release. If the temporal sSNR for the second BOLD run was less than 100, only that run was excluded. This means a participant could be included with a single BOLD run, when two runs were acquired, but the second run was lost due to data quality concerns.
Signal loss and susceptibility artifacts occur as a result of magnetic field inhomogeneities, potentially biasing or obscuring results from functional connectivity analyses. In T2*-dependent (BOLD) images, the decay in recoverable signal is exacerbated in regions where the brain is adjacent to air (e.g., sinus cavities)51. To estimate the topographic pattern of susceptibility artifacts in the present data we computed the voxel-level temporal SNR of the motion-corrected fMRI time series in each participant’s native volumetric space (the mean of the signal at each voxel over the BOLD run divided by the variance). The resulting voxel-level SNR was then projected to FreeSurfer surface space, averaged across the 1,570 subjects, and displayed in Caret PALS space (Fig. 2b)52. Clear spatial variation in voxel-level SNR was evident across the cortical mantle. As expected, decreased voxel-level SNR was pronounced in anterior aspects of inferior and medial temporal lobe, as well as in the orbital frontal cortex.
To provide an additional data quality metric, fractional Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations (fALFF)53,54 were computed for each participant. fALFF reflects the total power in the low frequency range (0.01–0.08 Hz) of an fMRI image, normalized by the total power across all frequencies. fALFF has been theorized to suppress non-specific signal components in the resting-state fMRI, providing improved sensitivity and specificity to detect regional spontaneous brain activity. Histograms of mean fALFF for the first and second rest runs are displayed in Supplementary Fig. 4a. Voxel-level fALFF estimates were averaged across the 1,570 subjects, and displayed in Caret PALS space (Supplementary Fig. 4b)52.
The present data sample is of generally high quality because of the exclusion criteria. However, scan quality is not uniformly distributed across the sample. Factors such as head motion can systematically influence resting-state network measures15,32–34. To facilitate informed analyses of the available data, the sSNR, number of micro-movements, and maximum movements across several key group divisions are depicted in Supplementary Fig. 5. Particular care should be taken when selecting sub-populations that could bias results (for example splitting groups by sex or number of available BOLD runs).
IQ, personality, and behavioral measures
Selected analyses of the available behavioral phenotypes are reported to highlight data quality, scale/measure validity, and potential analysis applications. The first analyses establish the validity of our online estimates and the sample characteristics for IQ. The analyses that follow explore personality assessments and then cognitive task performance.
To estimate validity of the online IQ estimates, online estimates of full scale IQ were examined in relation to Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) derived estimates of full-scale IQ collected in person55. Thirty-three participants completed the WASI on the day of scan in addition to the full GSP online battery. A strong relation was found between the average estimated IQ from the WASI with that derived from the online estimates (r=0.80; Fig. 3a). As expected, the derived estimates of full scale IQ were normally distributed across the sample (Fig. 3b). Consistent with the sample recruitment from Boston area universities and colleges, MGH, and the surrounding communities, the mean estimated full scale IQ for the sample was elevated (110.7±6.7) relative to the expected distribution for the general population. Histograms reflecting the respective distributions of matrix reasoning and derived estimates of full scale IQ are presented in Supplementary Fig. 6.
Regarding personality estimates, participants exhibited the anticipated relations linking conceptually overlapping personality and temperamental characteristics. Consistent with a substantial literature on negative affect56–58, a strong association linked trait anxiety and neuroticism (r=0.80, P<0.001; Fig. 3c). Substantial co-variation exists across exploratory and disinhibitory behaviors, such as novelty seeking and impulsivity59,60. Analyses of the present data highlight the predicted relation between self-reported novelty seeking and impulsivity (r=0.62, P<0.001; Supplementary Fig. 7).
Cognitive task performance also suggests measurement validity. In the mental rotation task included in the initial release, participants were asked to compare two 3D objects and indicate if they were identical or mirror images of each other61,62. Since Shepard and Metzler61 first elaborated the concept, mental rotation has been a commonly used measure of spatial ability. In the mental rotation task, participants were presented with pairs of 3D, asymmetrical groupings of cubes. The relative rotation of each object pair in 3D space varied over the course of the experiment (0°, 80°, 120°, or 180°). Participants completed 9 trials for each rotation condition, 36 in total. In half of the available trials the shapes were identical or mirror images of each other. Participants’ performance was estimated based on their speed and accuracy to distinguish between the mirrored and non-mirrored pairs. As the extent of object rotation increased, participants displayed the expected decrease in performance (Fig. 3d)61,62. As predicted by prior evidence of sex differences in spatial processing63,64, the males in our sample exhibited increased mental rotation accuracy, relative to the females, across each non-0° rotation condition (ts>4.10; ps<0.001).
Cognitive control over information processing can be dynamically adjusted in response to environmental demands65,66. To establish an index of behavioral responses to shifting task demands participants completed a modified version of the Eriksen flanker task65. The flanker task requires the participant to focus on a given stimulus while inhibiting attention to flanking stimuli, providing estimates of both attentional and inhibitory control. In the included flanker task, participants were presented with groups of 5 arrows pointing left or right. They were instructed to respond to the center arrow. When the arrows were printed in green font participants responded in the same direction as the middle arrow. When the arrows were printed in red font participants responded in the opposite direction of the middle arrow. Participants completed 192 flanker trials, with 12 trials in each block. Over the course of the task participants completed 8 switch and 8 non-switch blocks. In switch blocks the color of the presentation alternated between red and green font throughout the block. As expected, the increased demand on selective visual attention and inhibition in the switch blocks resulted in decreased accuracy and increased response times, relative to non-switch blocks (ts>25.51, ps<0.001; Supplementary Fig. 8).
Analysis applications
Selected analyses of the anatomical data are reported to illustrate (1) the potential of the available data through a typical use case that partials out nuisance variables and (2) a brain-behavior relation that requires a large sample size to detect.
A well-defined amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) circuit contributes to emotional processes67–70. Subtle shifts within the anatomy of this circuit, present in the general population, have been reported to track with the expression of negative affect in a subset of the present data13. To examine the presence of these relations in the formal GSP release sample, analyses were conducted mirroring those in the recent Holmes et al.13 publication (n=897). Due to partially overlapping data, these analyses should not be interpreted as a true replication of the observed effect. Briefly, trait negative affect was computed as the average of the Z-scores for five self-report measures associated with the experience of negative affect56–58. These scales included the trait form of the Spielberger State/Trait Anxiety Inventory71, the neuroticism scale from the NEO five-factor inventory72, the behavioral inhibition component of the Behavioral Inhibition/Behavioral Activation Scale73, the total mood disturbance score from the Profile of Mood States30, and the harm avoidance scale from the Temperament and Character Inventory74. Block linear regressions were conducted separately for both the left and right amygdala. Analyses partialed out the variance associated with site, console software version, estimated IQ75, age, sex, and ICV and then examined the relation between amygdala volume and negative affect. Given prior evidence suggesting opposing relations in the amygdala and the mPFC with negative affect, surface-based cortical thickness analyses were conducted on the FreeSurfer parcelation of the region labeled by Desikan et al.76 as the rostral anterior cingulate. Block linear regression partialed out the variance associated with site, console software version, estimated IQ75, age, and sex and then examined the relation between mPFC cortical thickness and negative affect.
Analyses revealed slight, yet opposing structural differences in the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex in the present sample of young adults. Consistent with its hypothesized role in anxiety and affective illnesses, amygdala volumes co-varied with negative affect (left: F1,889=11.36; P<0.001; r=0.11; Supplementary Fig. 9a; right: F1,889=4.34; P<0.05; r=0.07). In line with the suggested role of the mPFC in the downregulation of amygdala activity, reduced left hemisphere rostral anterior cingulate cortical thickness associated with subtle increases in negative affect (F1,890=4.73; P<0.05; r=−0.07; Supplementary Fig. 9b).
Impairments in affective experience are hypothesized to result from a breakdown in the interactions between subcortical and cortical structures77,78. To further examine how the correlation between amygdala volume and mPFC thickness associates with negative affect, the sample was split into groups with low-medium (n=760), and high (n=137) negative affect. High and low-medium groups were defined as one standard deviation above or below the mean negative affect score (0.00±0.83). No detectable relation was observed between amygdala volume and mPFC thickness in the low-medium negative affect participants (F1,753=0.886; P=0.347; r=0.03; Supplementary Fig. 9c). A negative correlation between left amygdala volume and mPFC thickness was evident among individuals reporting the most extreme negative affect (F1,130=3.84; P=0.05; r=−0.17; Supplementary Fig. 9d). The amygdala-mPFC correlation in the high negative affect participants was significantly different from the relation observed in the remaining participants (Z=2.19, P<0.05).
To mitigate spurious effects resulting from population admixture and cultural biases in self-reported affect79, the original Holmes et al.13 analyses were restricted to white non-Hispanic participants of European ancestry. When considering these participants (n=566) in the current sample, negative affect co-varied with amygdala volumes (left: F1,558=9.57; P<0.005; r=0.13; right: F1,558=4.04; P<0.05; r=0.09) and was associated with decreases in mPFC thickness (F1,559=3.94; P<0.05; r=−0.08). When dividing the participants into low-medium (n=473) and high (n=93) negative affect, no detectable relation was observed between amygdala volume and mPFC thickness in the low-medium negative affect participants (F1,466=0.086; P=0.769; r=0.01). An inverse correlation between left amygdala volume and mPFC thickness was evident among the individuals with the most extreme negative affect (F1,86=3.96; P<0.05; r=−0.21).
Analysis of functional network properties
Estimates of intrinsic functional coupling can be used to explore brain organization80 as well as the basis for graph theoretical analyses of network properties81. To illustrate the current data’s utility for such analyses, we estimated a cortical functional coupling matrix across all available region pairs based on the functional atlas of Yeo et al.10; (see also Power et al.82). This matrix is a comprehensive description of the correlation strength of all region pairs across the cortex for the complete dataset of 1,570 participants (Fig. 2c). This matrix or similar matrices derived from subsets of participants can provide a powerful means to explore relations between network properties and function.
One caveat in interpreting the magnitude of functional correlations is that the correlation structure of resting-state data is inherently biased by a nonuniform distribution of SNR51. This point should be carefully considered when using the present data. To illustrate this caveat, we assessed the reliability of the correlation estimates using the test-retest data. Consistent with the observed spatial variation in SNR across the cortical mantle (Fig. 2b), estimates of intrinsic functional coupling are not uniformly reliable across the cortex (Supplementary Fig. 10). Decreased test-retest reliability was particularly evident in the ‘Limbic network,’ encompassing aspects of orbital frontal and inferior medial prefrontal cortex as well as portions of temporal pole. This analysis is a reminder that spatial variation in signal quality across the brain should be considered in all analyses of functional coupling derived from BOLD data.
As a final illustration of how the functional coupling can be used to derive network properties, the topographic organization of the human cerebral cortex across both rough and fine-grained resolutions was estimated from the coupling of each vertex across the entire cortical mantle mimicking Yeo et al.10 (Fig. 2d; Supplementary Fig. 11; Supplementary Fig. 12). Other approaches can be productively applied to these data83,84.
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Large-scale imaging datasets are necessary to address complex questions regarding the relation between brain and behavior. The GSP release data provides a carefully vetted collection of neuroimaging, behavioral, cognitive, and personality data for 1,570 participants. The data collection and anonymization procedures employed in the GSP have resulted in a dataset that is highly suitable for processing, with minimal restrictions and without imposed dependencies on proprietary tools. The conversion of the available neuroimaging data from raw to NIfTI-1 file format, data anonymization, and the quantitative estimate of data quality were implemented through publicly accessible processing tools.
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AJH is presently affiliated with the Yale University Department of Psychology. GRF is presently affiliated with the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We thank Jamie Plenge, Elizabeth Hemphill, Katherine Powers, Renee Poulin, Glenn Hoffman, Leah Bakst, David Brohawn, Sara Rubenstein, Emily Shire, Susanna Crowell, Michelle Zad, Michelle Drews, and Elizabeth Beam for their dedication to the project, including intensive data collection and extensive quality control. We thank the Harvard Center for Brain Science, Harvard FAS Research Computing, and the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging for imaging and computational support, and the Center for Human Genetic Research and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research for genetics support. Thomas Benner and Gregory Sorensen assisted in developing the initial fast imaging protocol. Hesheng Liu, Danhong Wang, Jessica Tandi, and BT Thomas Yeo provided feedback and support on the paper figures. Abid Qureshi and Mark Eldaief assisted with data quality control. Xi-Nian Zuo provided feedback on aspects of the fALFF analyses. Lisa-Feldman Barrett, Joshua Greene, Trey Hedden, Daphne Holt, Jian Kong, Moh Milad, Jason Mitchell, Diego Pizzagalli, and Daniel Schacter generously contributed data to the present release. The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University is supporting data distribution through the Dataverse Network Project. Additional data distribution is supported through the Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in conjunction with the MGH-USC Human Connectome Project. This work was made possible by the resources provided through Shared Instrumentation Grants 1S10RR023043 and 1S10RR023401 and was supported by funding from the Simons Foundation (RLB), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (RLB), NIMH grants R01-MH079799 (JWS), K24MH094614 (JWS), K01MH099232 (AJH), and the Massachusetts General Hospital-University of Southern California Human Connectome Project (U54MH091665).
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