ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries.

ABSTRACT: This review summarizes the last decade of work by the ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta Analysis) Consortium, a global alliance of over 1400 scientists across 43 countries, studying the human brain in health and disease. Building on large-scale genetic studies that discovered the first robustly replicated genetic loci associated with brain metrics, ENIGMA has diversified into over 50 working groups (WGs), pooling worldwide data and expertise to answer fundamental questions in neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, and genetics. Most ENIGMA WGs focus on specific psychiatric and neurological conditions, other WGs study normal variation due to sex and gender differences, or development and aging; still other WGs develop methodological pipelines and tools to facilitate harmoni

SUBMITTER: Thompson PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083923 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature