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Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS) Data Use Agreement

Click-through agreement on Synapse after a reviewed request with an intended data use statement. Data may only be used for the stated study, stay inside the recipient's institution and must be destroyed at the end. The data may not be sold or commercialized, publications must acknowledge and cite HABS and be reported to the HABS data committee, and use from listed countries of concern is barred.

Original license text Edit Purpose: Approved project only Version read: HABS DUA Click Wrap v.2 on Synapse (access requirement 9606742, October 2025), with the HABS guidance on AI tools Checked 2026-10-08
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In your favor With conditions Restricts you Not stated in the text

What you can do

  • Conditional
  • Conditional
  • Not stated
  • Conditional

What you can share

  • No
  • Not stated
  • Conditional

What you must do

  • Yes
  • Share alike No
  • Yes
  • Conditional
  • Conditional
  • Release code No
  • No
  • Yes

Limits

  • Yes
  • Yes

Separate commercial license: Not stated

Datasets under this license

  • HABS

    Longitudinal study at Massachusetts General Hospital of 358 older adults who were cognitively normal at entry, with 3 T MRI (T1w, FLAIR, SWI, DTI, resting-state fMRI), PiB, flortaucipir and FDG PET and up to 11 years of clinical and cognitive follow-up.