Access to Data

Partial fully unrestricted data access

Five of the six CNeuroMod subjects (sub-01, sub-02, sub-03, sub-05 and sub-06) have chosen to openly share their data via the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP). These data are distributed under a liberal Creative Commons data license, in particular authorizing re-sharing of derivates. Note that you can use the instructions in this guide directly - the command will retrieve all the CONP data and simply raise warnings about the other subjects, which require an access key to download (see next Section for full access).

Complete CNeuroMod databank via Data Transfer Agreement (DTA)

To access the data from all 6 subjects in the CNeuroMod databank (i.e all 6 subjects), researchers are required to complete a form with a brief description of planned analyses, and complete an inter-institutional data transfer agreement. Links to relevant forms can be found on the access request page. The data transfer agreement must be signed by the researcher responsible for the project as well as a representative of the main academic institution where the research team is affiliated. The application will be evaluated by a data access committee and, if approved, a transfer key will be shared with the research team in order to transfer the data (see Downloading).

Ethics

The Courtois NeuroMod project has been approved by the institutional research ethics board of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’île-de-Montréal. The CIUSSS is a large governmental health organization, and the core NeuroMod team is based at the Research Centre of the Montreal Geriatric Institute (CRIUGM), which is a part of the CIUSSS, and affiliated with the University of Montreal. The consent forms signed by participants and the project description are available below. The formal authorization lettre from the ethics committee is available upon request. The project was most recently renewed by the Comité d’éthique de la recherche — Vieillissement et neuroimagerie (CER-VN) on October 21st, 2022 under the project number CER VN 18-19-22, and title “Extensive characterization of human brain activity under naturalistic stimulations for developing individual artificial neuronal models.”