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Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: Imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects
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Harms, Michael P; Somerville, Leah H; Ances, Beau M; Andersson, Jesper; Barch, Deanna M; Bastiani, Matteo; Bookheimer, Susan Y; Brown, Timothy B; Buckner, Randy L; Burgess, Gregory C; Coalson, Timothy S; Chappell, Michael A; Dapretto, Mirella; Douaud, Gwenaëlle; Fischl, Bruce; Glasser, Matthew F; Greve, Douglas N; Hodge, Cynthia; Jamison, Keith W; Jbabdi, Saad; Kandala, Sridhar; Li, Xiufeng; Mair, Ross W; Mangia, Silvia; Marcus, Daniel; Mascali, Daniele; Moeller, Steen; Nichols, Thomas E; Robinson, Emma C; Salat, David H; Smith, Stephen M; Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N; Terpstra, Melissa; Thomas, Kathleen M; Tisdall, M Dylan; Ugurbil, Kamil; van der Kouwe, Andre; Woods, Roger P; Zöllei, Lilla; Van Essen, David C; Yacoub, Essa
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The Human Connectome Projects in Development (HCP-D) and Aging (HCP-A) are two large-scale brain imaging studies that will extend the recently completed HCP Young-Adult (HCP-YA) project to nearly the full lifespan, collecting structural, resting-state fMRI, task-fMRI, diffusion, and perfusion MRI in participants from 5 to 100+ years of age. HCP-D is enrolling 1300+ healthy children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 5-21), and HCP-A is enrolling 1200+ healthy adults (ages 36-100+), with each study collecting longitudinal data in a subset of individuals at particular age ranges. The imaging protocols of the HCP-D and HCP-A studies are very similar, differing primarily in the selection of different task-fMRI paradigms. We strove to harmonize the imaging protocol to the greatest extent feasible with the completed HCP-YA (1200+ participants, aged 22-35), but some imaging-related changes were motivated or necessitated by hardware changes, the need to reduce the total amount of scanning per participant, and/or the additional challenges of working with young and elderly populations. Here, we provide an overview of the common HCP-D/A imaging protocol including data and rationales for protocol decisions and changes relative to HCP-YA. The result will be a large, rich, multi-modal, and freely available set of consistently acquired data for use by the scientific community to investigate and define normative developmental and aging related changes in the healthy human brain.