Description:The SPARC Portal is an open repository, expanding scope beyond the ANS to accept relevant datasets from the broader community of individual researchers, consortia, and industry. By broadening its Mission, SPARC aims to fill gaps in the current neuroscience repository landscape by focusing on the entirety of the peripheral nervous system and its end-organ/CNS interactions.
Dcc Name:Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions
Dcc Description:To transform our understanding of nerve-organ interactions by providing access to high-value datasets, maps, and computational studies with the intent of advancing bioelectronic medicine towards treatments that change lives. The SPARC program is supported by the NIH Common Fund to accelerate development of therapeutic devices and identification of neural targets for bioelectronic medicine—modulating electrical activity in nerves to help treat diseases and conditions, such as hypertension and gastrointestinal disorders, by precisely adjusting organ function.