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 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:

  • 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 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