Neurotypical Database (Neurotypical DB)

The Neurotypical Database (Neurotypical DB) is a knowledge base of cognitive processes (Bodick and Marquis, 1990) of young neurotypical adults, i.e., 128 (19-to-25-year-old) healthy university students, non-medicated and with no serious, uncontrolled or chronic diseases affecting the nervous system.

The database is published in a secured and protected online access: https://tinyurl.com/NeurotypicalDB, granted by private invitation only, but publicly available and assigned a DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6949727.

The dataset comprehends the use of 138 variables. Those included independent variables and 20% of internal variables for function calculation.

The following variables were acquired to compile the knowledge base:

1.      Three variables were used for procedural noting; 

2.      Sixty-one variables were used for the (i) General Clinical Questionnaire. Those included (a) trait variables: (i) biometric data (8 variables), (ii) physical activity (2 variables), (iii) alcohol habits (4 variables), (iv) smoking habits (4 variables), and (v) anamnesis (diagnosis, 3 variables; therapeutics, 4 variables); and (b) state variables: 36 research variables.

3.      Seventy-four variables were used for (ii) the Psychological Assessment. Those included: (a) 24 variables for the Abnorme Psychischer Zustände States of Consciousness scale, (b) 6 variables for the Subjective Happiness Scale, (c) 17 variables for the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, and (d) 27 variables for the Self-consciousness Scale.  

The Neurotypical DB characterizes the young neurotypical adults sample and stratifies their mental health subphenomes or profiles. For better visualization of the variables used to generate the database, we created a Prezi infographic (Krum, 2013). It can be accessed online in: https://tinyurl.com/NeurotypicalDBPrezi. This infographic graphically shows the instruments that we used to acquire our mental health data.