Cohort Profiles in Neuroimaging: Insights and Innovations in Population Studies

Neuroimaging cohort studies are essential for advancing our understanding of the brain across health and disease. Yet, details about many cohorts are not widely disseminated, limiting collaboration and reuse of valuable datasets. This collection is designed to provide a platform for principal investigators and research teams to present succinct cohort profiles, enabling the neuroimaging community to easily discover, compare, and build upon existing resources. By inviting brief yet informative reports, this initiative aims to highlight the unique features, methodological innovations, and key discoveries from a variety of neuroimaging cohorts around the world. Such profiles will foster transparency, facilitate scientific exchange, and open new avenues for collaborative research.The goal of this collection is to create an accessible showcase of current neuroimaging cohorts, offering investigators an efficient way to share the scope, structure, and published findings of their studies. We seek to accelerate the sharing of cohort-level knowledge and promote the adoption of best practices in study design, data sharing, and analysis. By collecting concise profiles, we hope to make it easier for researchers to connect, learn from one another’s approaches, and advance reproducible, cumulative science in the field. The collection will serve as a dynamic resource for the global neuroimaging community, fueling innovation and collaboration.We invite contributions that provide overviews of neuroimaging cohorts, regardless of sample size, modality, or population focus. Accepted article types include Brief Research Reports, Data Reports, and Commentaries. Submissions should outline the cohort’s design, recruitment and demographics, imaging and core phenotypic measures, unique methodologies, and data availability. Authors are encouraged to summarize key published findings, innovations in analysis or protocol, approaches to standardized data collection, best practices or lessons learned in data acquisition and quality assurance, and plans for future data collection or collaboration. Commentaries on methodological advances, challenges, and governance in cohort research are also welcome. Topic editors: Ting Xu, Tomáš Paus Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/76447/cohort-profiles-in-neuroimaging-insights-and-innovations-in-population-studies