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BECOME INVOLVED
Despite recent scientific advances,
we do not understand enough about how many diseases
affect the brain. There are dedicated groups of people both nationally and internationally who have strong interests in studying the brain and the necessary
expertise to do so. The ultimate goal of these
brain donor programs is to study enough brains
to know what is normal and what causes disease
to enable effective interventions or even disease
prevention.
This program is designed to
collect and store brain tissue from a broad cross-section of the community for distribution to leading
neuroscience researchers. Only by having tissue
from all types of people, from all walks of life, can we understand what the tissue of the brain
looks like normally. You may think that such information
is well known, but it is not. It is this type
of tissue and information which is currently most
needed for breakthroughs in medical research.
This program is designed to
collect, store and distribute fixed and frozen
brain tissue that is well characterised both clinically
and pathologically for projects related to schizophrenia.
The focus for the collection is cases with schizophrenia,
however tissue from normal control cases and other
major psychiatric disorders are also collected
to provide important comparative groups.
This program is designed to
collect and store fixed and frozen brain tissue
from patients with dementia. The tissue and the
medical information from each individual is collected
in order to identify the causes of dementia. Again,
although the focus for the collection is cases
with dementia, tissue from normal control cases
is vital to provide important comparative groups.
This program is designed to
collect and store fixed and frozen brain tissue
from patients with Parkinson's disease or related
disorders. People enrolling in this program may
also be asked to participate in other types of
research, like blood test development, or determining
the risk in families. We are hopeful that the
tissue, medical and research information from
each individual will identify the causes of these
diseases. Again, tissue from normal control cases
are important for comparison.
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This donor program is designed to collect, store and distribute brain and other neural tissue for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research that will increase our understanding of the disease. It's neither
too early nor too late to consider it: younger or older People with MS are encouraged to register
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