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• Pilkonis, Paul

This data package contains SPSS data and codebooks containing participant demographic information for several personality studies conducted by Paul Pilkonis 1990-2017.

Associated studies:

1. Validity in the Diagnosis of Personality Disorders ("Validity")
2. Screening for Personality Disorders ("Screening")
3. Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline Personality ("Interpersonal Functioning")
4. Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline Personality ("Emotion and Interpersonal Functioning")
5. Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline Personality ("Couples")

Data include self-reported demographic information, length of current relationship (couples), occupational status, income, sexual orientation, and educational attainment, as well as a checklist of common medical problems, medications and a list of individuals who live with the participant.

Note: The BIQ was changed slightly for each study. Each version is included, and variable lists included.

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Personality Assessment
• Personality Disorders
• Psychiatry

• Pilkonis, Paul

This data package contains SPSS data and codebooks for the Adult Attachment Ratings (AAR) / Adult Attachment Prototype Rating (AAPR) assessment used in several personality studies conducted 1990-2017 by Paul Pilkonis.

Associated studies:

1. Validity in the Diagnosis of Personality Disorders ("Validity")
2. Screening for Personality Disorders ("Screening")
3. Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline Personality ("Interpersonal Functioning")
4. Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline Personality ("Emotion and Interpersonal Functioning")
5. Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline Personality ("Couples")

Data and codebooks are provided for each study listed above, as well as a fuller description of the AAR/AAPR assessments. For background demographic data on the participants in these studies, see the Related Dataset: Pilkonis Personality Studies: Background Information Questionnaire (BIQ).

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Interpersonal Relations
• Personality Assessment
• Personality Disorders
• Psychiatry

• Anderst, William
• LeVasseur, Clarissa
• Pitcairn, Samuel
• Lee, Joon Y.
• 2 more author(s)...

The authors measured cervical spine kinematics of patients before and after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery. From the Biodynamics Laboratory website: This NIH-funded prospective study aims to identify the factors that have the greatest effect on adjacent segment mechanics after cervical fusion. A total of 88 anterior cervical fusion patients will be tested prior to surgery, and 1 and 3 years after surgery. Participants will perform full range of motion flexion/extension and rotation while biplane radiographs are collected at 30 images per second for each movement trial.

• Cervical Vertebrae
• Kinematics
• Spinal Fusion
• Spine

• Iwema, Carrie L.
• Chattopadhyay, Ansuman

The Molecular Biology Information Service (MBIS) of the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) at the University of Pittsburgh conducted a 33-question Qualtrics survey in early 2018 to evaluate the effectiveness of services provided by the MBIS. The CSV file contains de-identifed survey responses--identifying information for Q6.7 was redacted. Also included is a PDF of the Qualtrics survey response report and a PDF of the survey questions (multiple choice, ranking, and free text).

• Bioinformatics
• Biomedical Research
• Computational Biology
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
• Information Services
• Libraries, Medical
• Molecular Biology
• Software Training

• Katnani, Husam
• Gandhi, Neeraj

The authors measured eye movements evoked by electrical stimulation delivered simultaneously to two sites in the superior colliculus of nonhuman primates. The effects of current frequency and intensity on movement trajectories are available. The data are potentially useful for understanding algorithms for decoding movement commands from population activity in the superior colliculus.

• Electric Stimulation
• Macaca mulatta
• Microstimulation
• Superior Colliculi
• Vector averaging
• Vector summation

• Horn, Charles C.
• Farr, Laura
• Sciullo, Michael

This data package contains 3D printing files (in multiple formats) and instructions for producing a testing chamber.

Peripheral nerves supply the inputs and outputs that determine how we sense and respond to both the internal and external environments; for example, the vagus detects the function of the interval organs and supplies motor output controlling the heart and gastrointestinal tract and other organs. This perfusion chamber model is designed to test evoked nerve responses using electrical stimulation of one nerve end and electrophysiological recording of the opposite nerve end (15 to 25 mm nerve length); responses can be recorded from teased fiber bundles or the whole nerve. The dissected nerve of laboratory animals, for example, musk shrew, mouse, and rat, can be placed in the middle perfusion compartment and kept alive with oxygenated Krebs solution flowing through the input port and exiting by way of the two outflow ports (2 are used to ensure that the compartment will not overflow). The lateral stimulation and recording compartments contain holes for placement of fine wire electrodes, which can be guided to the top of the model for connections to the stimulator and recording equipment (e.g., high impedance head stage and amplifier system). The lateral compartments are sealed from the middle perfusion compartment by running the nerve under thin plastic gates coated with vacuum grease; gates are lowered into grooves that are built into the model.

• Compound Action Potential
• Electrophysiology
• Equipment Design
• In Vitro Techniques
• Neurophysiology
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Printing, Three-Dimensional

• Rosenberg, David M.
• Horn, Charles C.

This Github repository contains raw data and code to explore open-source neurophysiology data analysis tools within an included Jupyter notebook. Software dependencies are listed within each data supplement folder, and can be downloaded with Docker via the associated Github repository described in the related data catalog record: Software: Docker image with JupyterLab, Python 3, Python 2, and R. The supplementary data were collected from electrophysiological recordings of the musk shrew vagus, a model system to investigate gut-brain communication.

• Electronic Lab Notebooks
• Electrophysiology
• Neurophysiology
• Software

• Horn, Charles C.

A Docker image with Jupyter Lab, Jupyter Notebook, Python 3, Python 2, R, and many R and Python packages for scientific computing. Docker is a container-based software system that allows easy download and installation of multiple software packages. The software included in this Docker image has wide relevance to various domains within scientific computing but are optimized for neurophysiological research, and can be used to explore the electrophysiological data included in Software: Neurophysiological analytics for all! Free open-source software tools for documenting, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing using electronic notebooks.

• Electronic Lab Notebooks
• Electrophysiology
• Neurophysiology
• Software

• Horn, Charles C.
• Sciullo, Michael
• Farr, Laura

This data package contains 3D printing files (in multiple formats) and instructions for producing a testing chamber.

The gastric vagus supplies critical information to the brain for the control of feeding and aversive signaling, such as nausea and vomiting. This perfusion chamber model (with a grid for testing mechanical stimuli) is designed to test mechanical or chemical stimuli applied to the stomach while recording electrophysiological responses from the vagus, from teased fiber bundles or the whole nerve. The dissected stomach, with attached vagus, of small laboratory animals, including musk shrew (a vomiting species) and mouse (a non-vomiting species), can be placed in the perfusion (stomach) compartment and kept alive with oxygenated Krebs solution flowing through the input port and exiting through the two outflow ports (2 are used to ensure that the compartment will not overflow). The included detachable grid allows the experimenter to record the placement of a mechanical probe in alphanumeric coordinates; Von Frey filaments (e.g., 10 mg force) can to used to apply mechanical stimulation. The recording compartment contains holes for placement of fine wire electrodes, which can be guided to the top of the model for connections to recording equipment (e.g., high impedance head stage and amplifier system). The two compartments are sealed by running the nerve connected to the stomach under a plastic gate, coated with vacuum grease; the gate is lowered into grooves that are part of the model. Based on this model, it is possible to produce a testing chamber for a larger species, such as the laboratory rat, by extending the size of the stomach compartment.

• Electrophysiology
• Equipment Design
• In Vitro Techniques
• Mechanoreceptors
• Neurophysiology
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Printing, Three-Dimensional

• Horn, Charles C.
• Rosenberg, David M.

This Github repository contains Python code to convert electrophysiology data files to Numpy arrays and save them to HDF5. The package contains example Spike2 data, a Jupyter notebook, and Python code to be executed within the notebook.

• Electrophysiology
• File conversion (Computer science)
• Software