Open Science FTW! Although the lab has long made a point of uploading raw data to NDA for select NIMH-sponsored work and 2nd-level fMRI stats maps to NeuroVault for all publications, we are now taking it to the next level, and beginning to share subject-level brain imaging data with the ENIGMA Anxiety Workgroup (ENIGMA-Anxiety) and with the Affective Neuroimaging Collaboratory. These data will ultimately enable well-powered, reproducible, multi-lab analyses of the brain bases of anxiety disorders and BI, and the development of more sensitive and specific brain signatures of emotion. This is important because emotional disorders impose a staggering burden on global public health, and existing interventions are inconsistently effective.

Data sharing is a core scientific value, and maximizes the return on precious taxpayer investments in basic and clinical research.