Reproducible Brain Charts: An Open Data Resource for Mapping the Developing Brain and Mental Health

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Major mental illnesses are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development [1]. Neuroimaging studies of brain development can help track healthy brain maturation and have the potential to identify deviations from normal development linked to psychopathology. However, large and diverse samples are required to capture reliable neurodevelopmental patterns on the population level [2]. While it is possible to aggregate data across multiple resources, data aggregation is not a straightforward process given the differences in neuroimaging and psychiatric phenotyping protocols used by independent studies. To this end, we introduce Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC), an open data resource that integrates several of the largest studies of brain development in youth.