Brain image database benefits research and education worldwide. “Brain scans are an important tool for medical science, basic research and education, but this expensive technology is often out of reach for many
institutions. Now a team at Dartmouth College has developed a repository for images of human brain scans that is available free to researchers
and educators worldwide.

The National Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Data Center was established with a grant of $4.7 million over five years from the
National Science Foundation (NSF). The scientific research and education community recently gained access to the first data sets, which are made
available by Dartmouth on CDROMs.” EurekAlert! If you’ve been reading FmH for awhile, you’ll know that I’ve been blinking to the — literally — illuminating findings of fMRI studies whenever I can find them. Here’s a primer about how MRI and fMRI work. Here’s a Google search to take it further.