Harvard Brain Aging Study
About the dataset
Primary description: Preclinical Alzheimer’s aging cohort
The Harvard Brain Aging Study (HABS) is a longitudinal observational study of healthy and pathological aging from cognitively unimpaired participants age 65 and older. MR and PET imaging protocols were designed to be compatible with ADNI. Clinical assessments include demographics, neurocognitive and neuropsychological assessments, blood work, APOE genotyping, and physiological measurements. Data is publicly available via [https://habs.mgh.harvard.edu/researchers/].
| Study | Harvard Brain Aging Study | |||||||||||||
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| Study Website | HABS | |||||||||||||
| Data Descriptor Paper | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.069 | |||||||||||||
| DUA | https://www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn53910452/wiki/626438 | |||||||||||||
| Country/Region | USA | |||||||||||||
| Disease Tag | alzheimers;aging | |||||||||||||
| Age (mean ± SD)
(Baseline) |
73.8 ± 6.2 | |||||||||||||
| Age Range
(Baseline) |
51-94 | |||||||||||||
| % Female | 59.2 | |||||||||||||
| CUBIC Project | /cbica/projects/Public_Studies |
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| PI for CUBIC Access Approval | Christos Davatzikos | |||||||||||||
| N Subjects | 289 | |||||||||||||
| N MR Sessions | 660 | |||||||||||||
| Diagnoses |
AD
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DLMUSE
(v1.0.7)
(513/513 complete) |
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_DLMUSE_2025/Results/DLMUSE_Volumes.csv
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RAVENS
(DRAMMS-1.4.1)
(513/513 complete) |
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_3.5D_DLICV_MASK_2023/Protocols/RAVENS
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fMRIPrep
(23.1.3)
(205/660 complete) |
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/Protocols
/opt/conda/envs/fmriprep/bin/fmriprep \
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/Data \
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/Protocols \
participant \
--participant_label P0XDCJT \
--fs-license-file /cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/license.txt \
--fs-no-reconall \
--omp-nthreads 2 \
--use-syn-sdc warn \
--output-spaces MNI152NLin2009cAsym:res-2 \
--debug all \
-v
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XCP-D
(0.7.1rc6)
(76/660 complete) |
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/Protocols/XCP
/usr/local/miniconda/bin/xcp_d \
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/Protocols \
/cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/Protocols/XCP \
participant \
--participant_label P0XDCJT \
--input-type fmriprep \
-p 36P \
--work-dir /cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024 \
--motion-filter-type lp \
--band-stop-min 6 \
--motion-filter-order 4 \
--despike \
--fd-thresh 0 \
--lower-bpf 0.01 \
--upper-bpf 0.08 \
--bpf-order 2 \
--head-radius auto \
--dummy-scans auto \
--min-coverage 0.4 \
--smoothing 0 \
--fs-license-file /cbica/projects/Public_Studies/HABS/Pipelines/HABS_fMRI_2024/license.txt
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| Non-Imaging Data |
/cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ClinicalDataConsolidation_201911/Data/External_Data/HABS
Raw data downloaded from source. /cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ClinicalDataConsolidation_201911/dictionaries/HABS
Data dictionary of raw data downloaded from source. /cbica/projects/ISTAGING/Pipelines/ISTAGING_Data_Consolidation_2020/v2.0/istaging.csv
Data consolidated and harmonized in 2020. This study: subset with README: Release Notes: /cbica/home/harmang/for_others/final_combined_istaging_withMUSE.csv
Data consolidated and harmonized in 2026. This study: subset with |
Funding
The study was supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.