BANDA: Connectomes Related to Anxiety & Depression

Current Data Releases

BANDA Release 1.0

BANDA Release 1.0 Released on 02/15/2023

BANDA Release 1.0 of imaging and behavioral data is now available in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA, DOI: 10.15154/1528446). The Boston Adolescent Neuroimaging of Depression and Anxiety (BANDA) is a study of 215 adolescents ages 14-17, 152 of whom had a current diagnosis of a DSM-5 (APA, 2013) anxious and/or depressive disorder. The BANDA study collected a rich dataset of brain, clinical, and cognitive/neuropsychological measures from these adolescent subjects. 

BANDA Release 1.0 data includes: 

  • unprocessed data of all modalities (structural MRI, resting state fMRI, task fMRI for 3 tasks, and diffusion MRI) for up to 207 subjects
  • minimally preprocessed MRI data of all modalities for up to 203 subjects
  • clinical and behavioral data for 215 subjects 


Get Access and Download the dataGet started with the Data Access and Download Instructions for obtaining access, navigating NDA and using its download tools. We've also created a wiki that details setup steps  for downloading data via NDA's command line tools.

The released data are available on NDA as:

  • BANDARec package of recommended preprocessed + behavioral data (497 GB, OPTION ONE)
  • BANDAAllFiles package (5.7 TB, OPTION ONE)
  • BANDAImgManifestBeh package of imaging manifests + behavioral data (243 MB, OPTION ONE)
  • or can be filtered on to create a custom package of a subset of the data (OPTION TWO).


Want more information?  Check out our documentation to help with understanding the project and interpreting the data.

View Data Release Documentation

Release Date: Feb 15, 2023

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