BANDA: Connectomes Related to Anxiety & Depression

Current Data Releases

BANDA Release 1.1

BANDA Release 1.1 Released on 03/04/2024

The updated BANDA Release 1.1 of imaging and behavioral data is now available in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA, DOI: 10.15154/3tk5-pb47). 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 1.1 on NDA contains changes to non-MRI data from the BANDA 1.0 Release. Corrections were made to some elements and/or new composite/summary elements were added to several NDA structures (see change log in documentation). Note: To assure reproducibility, any non-MRI data accessed from the BANDA 1.0 release should be replaced entirely by those of the BANDA 1.1.

BANDA Release 1.1 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
  • updated clinical and behavioral data for 215 subjects: updates include addition of composite/summary scores for many and corrections for 3 NDA structures


Get Access and Download the data: Get 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:

  • BANDA11Rec package of recommended preprocessed + behavioral data (497 GB, OPTION ONE)
  • BANDA11AllFiles package (5.9 TB, OPTION ONE)
  • BANDA11ImgManifestBeh package of imaging manifests + behavioral data (245 MB, OPTION ONE)
  • or can be filtered on by modality and processing level 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: Mar 04, 2024

Archived 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 data: Get 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