The NIH NeuroBioBank: Addressing the Urgent Need for Brain Donation

NIH Solicits Brain Donation
When unraveling the complexities of neurological, neurodevelopmental, and neuropsychiatric disorders, there is no substitute for studying human brain tissue. Brain donation is critically important, now more than ever.
The more brain tissue available for research, the faster science can advance toward a better understanding of how to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure disorders of the human brain.
The NIH NeuroBioBank  is a central resource to coordinate brain donation and the distribution of tissue to qualified researchers. These efforts depend on the availability of post-mortem brain tissue. Yet, relative to donations of other organs for transplantation and research, brain donation is severely lagging, both from healthy people, from people with brain disease, and especially from children. Through partnerships with not-for-profit organizations like the Brain Donor Project , NIH aims to raise awareness about the importance of post-mortem brain donation and to simplify the process of becoming a donor. (courtesy NIMH)

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