Population Neuroscience: Strategies to Promote Data Sharing While Protecting Privacy.

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Population neuroscience aims to advance our understanding of how genetic and environmental factors influence brain development and brain health over the life span, by integrating genomics, epidemiology, and neuroscience at population scale. Federated and cloud-based approaches are being leveraged to improve the security, remote accessibility, and performance of repositories.

🔑 Key Findings

• This big data approach depends on data sharing strategies at both the micro- and macro-level, as well as attention to effective data management and protection of participant privacy.
• At the micro-level, researchers participate in international consortia that support collaboration, standards, and data sharing.
• They also seek to link together cohort studies, administrative health databases, and measures of the physical, built, and social environment in creative ways.

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