NeuroDataSets: A Comprehensive Collection of Neuroscience and Brain-Related Datasets

Offers a rich and diverse collection of datasets focused on the brain, nervous system, and related disorders. The package includes clinical, experimental, neuroimaging, behavioral, cognitive, and simulated data on conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, Tourette's syndrome, traumatic brain injury, gliomas, migraines, headaches, sleep disorders, concussions, encephalitis, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and mental health conditions. Datasets cover structural and functional brain data, cross-sectional and longitudinal MRI imaging studies, neurotransmission, gene expression, cognitive performance, intelligence metrics, sleep deprivation effects, treatment outcomes, brain-body relationships across species, neurological injury patterns, and acupuncture interventions. Data sources include peer-reviewed studies, clinical trials, military health records, sports injury databases, and international comparative studies. Designed for researchers, neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, data scientists, and students, this package facilitates exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, and hypothesis testing in neuroscience and neuroepidemiology. The package includes datasets originally distributed in other R packages as well as open data repositories such as Kaggle. Original package authors and contributors are acknowledged in Authors@R. All datasets—including those from R source packages and Kaggle, along with their respective authors and licensing terms—are fully documented in the 'LICENSES_DETAILS' file.

Version: 0.3.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: utils
Suggests: ggplot2, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), dplyr, knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-08-22
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.NeuroDataSets
Author: Renzo Caceres Rossi ORCID iD [aut, cre], Michael Seo [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original bnma package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Christopher Schmid [ctb] (Author of the original bnma package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Si Gao [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original RVIpkg package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Peter Kochunov [ctb, cph] (Author, data contributor, funder and copyright holder of the original RVIpkg package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Kathryn Hatch [ctb] (Contributor to the original RVIpkg package (testing and data collection).), Yizhou Ma [ctb] (Contributor to the original RVIpkg package (testing, method development and data collection).), Fatima Talib [ctb] (Contributor to the original RVIpkg package (testing and method).), Kevin M. Middleton [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original abd package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Randall Pruim [ctb] (Author of the original abd package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets., Also contributed corrections to the original Sleuth3 package.), Max Kuhn [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original modeldata package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Posit Software, PBC ROR ID [ctb, cph] (Copyright holder and funder of the original modeldata package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Torsten Hothorn ORCID iD [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original coin package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Henric Winell ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original coin package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Kurt Hornik ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original coin package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Mark A. van de Wiel ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original coin package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Achim Zeileis ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original coin package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Pei Wang [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original RRMLRfMC package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Richard Kryscio [ctb] (Author of the original RRMLRfMC package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Angelo Canty [ctb] (Author of the original boot package (original code for S); original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Brian Ripley [ctb] (Author (conversion of the original S code to R, author of parallel support) and former maintainer (1999-2022) of the original boot package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Alessandra R. Brazzale [ctb] (Maintainer and contributor (minor bug fixes) of the original boot package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Daphna Harel [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original sur package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Sharon Weinberg [ctb] (Contributor to the original sur package.), Sarah Abramowitz [ctb] (Contributor to the original sur package.), F.L. Ramsey [ctb] (Original author of datasets in the Sleuth3 package.), D.W. Schafer [ctb] (Original author of datasets in the Sleuth3 package.), Daniel W. Schafer [ctb] (Contributor/modifier of the original Sleuth3 package.), Jeannie Sifneos [ctb] (Contributor/modifier of the original Sleuth3 package.), Berwin A. Turlach [ctb] (Contributor, maintainer and modifier of the original Sleuth3 package.), Nicholas Horton [ctb] (Vignette contributor to the original Sleuth3 package.), Linda Loi [ctb] (Vignette contributor to the original Sleuth3 package.), Kate Aloisio [ctb] (Vignette contributor to the original Sleuth3 package.), Ruobing Zhang [ctb] (Vignette contributor to the original Sleuth3 package.), Graeme L. Hickey ORCID iD [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original joineRML package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Pete Philipson ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original joineRML package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Andrea Jorgensen ORCID iD [ctb] (Contributor to the original joineRML package.), Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original joineRML package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Paula Williamson ORCID iD [ctb] (Contributor to the original joineRML package.), Dimitris Rizopoulos [ctb] (Data contributor to the original joineRML package (data/renal.rda); also contributed code (R/hessian.R, R/vcov.R).), Alessandro Gasparini ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original joineRML package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Julian Faraway [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original faraway package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Andrew McKenzie [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original BRETIGEA package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Minghui Wang [ctb] (Author of the original BRETIGEA package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Bin Zhang [ctb] (Author of the original BRETIGEA package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Josie Athens [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original pubh package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Frank Harell [ctb] (Contributor to the original pubh package.), John Fox ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original carData and heplots packages, and contributor to the original pubh package; original datasets included in NeuroDataSets.), R-Core [ctb] (Contributor to the original pubh package.), Michael Friendly ORCID iD [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original heplots package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Georges Monette ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original heplots package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Phil Chalmers ORCID iD [ctb] (Contributor to the original heplots package.), Duncan Murdoch [ctb] (Contributor to the original heplots package.), Sanford Weisberg [ctb] (Author of the original carData package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Brad Price [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original carData package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Alan T. Arnholt [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original BSDA package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Ben Evans [ctb] (Author of the original BSDA package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Przemyslaw Biecek [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original PBImisc package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Maarten Marsman ORCID iD [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original bgms package; original datasets included in NeuroDataSets.), Don van den Bergh ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original bgms package; original datasets included in NeuroDataSets.), Nikola Sekulovski ORCID iD [ctb] (Contributor to the original bgms package.), Giuseppe Arena ORCID iD [ctb] (Contributor to the original bgms package.), Laura Groot [ctb] (Contributor to the original bgms package.), Gali Geller [ctb] (Contributor to the original bgms package.), Jonathan Z. Bakdash ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original rmcorr package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Laura R. Marusich ORCID iD [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original rmcorr package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), John Nolan [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original rcollectadhd package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Gunther Schauberger [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original catdata package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Gerhard Tutz [ctb] (Author of the original catdata package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Zhicheng Du [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original reportROC package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Yuantao Hao [ctb] (Author of the original reportROC package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Michael Kossmeier [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original metaviz package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Ulrich S. Tran [ctb] (Author of the original metaviz package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Martin Voracek [ctb] (Author of the original metaviz package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Pete Laud ORCID iD [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original ratesci package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Ann Cannon [ctb] (Author of datasets in the original Stat2Data package.), George Cobb [ctb] (Author of datasets in the original Stat2Data package.), Bradley Hartlaub [ctb] (Author of datasets in the original Stat2Data package.), Julie Legler [ctb] (Author of datasets in the original Stat2Data package.), Robin Lock [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original Stat2Data package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Thomas Moore [ctb] (Author of datasets in the original Stat2Data package.), Allan Rossman [ctb] (Author of datasets in the original Stat2Data package.), Jeffrey Witmer [ctb] (Author of datasets in the original Stat2Data package.), Jason L. Oke ORCID iD [ctb, cph] (Author, maintainer and copyright holder of the original R4HCR package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Bjoern Bornkamp ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original DoseFinding package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Jose Pinheiro [ctb] (Author of the original DoseFinding package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Frank Bretz [ctb] (Author of the original DoseFinding package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Ludger Sandig [ctb] (Author of the original DoseFinding package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Marius Thomas [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original DoseFinding package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Daniel Sabanes Bove ORCID iD [ctb] (Author of the original DoseFinding package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Novartis Pharma AG [ctb, cph] (Copyright holder and funder of the original DoseFinding package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.), Felipe Osorio ORCID iD [ctb] (Author and maintainer of the original MVT package; original dataset included in NeuroDataSets.)
Maintainer: Renzo Caceres Rossi <arenzocaceresrossi at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/lightbluetitan/neurodatasets/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2) | GPL-3]
URL: https://github.com/lightbluetitan/neurodatasets, https://lightbluetitan.github.io/neurodatasets/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en
Citation: NeuroDataSets citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: NeuroDataSets results

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Reference manual: NeuroDataSets.html , NeuroDataSets.pdf
Vignettes: NeuroDataSets: A Comprehensive Collection of Neuroscience and Brain-Related Datasets (source, R code)

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