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Brain banking for neurological disorders
- Source :
- Lancet Neurology, 12, 1096-1105. Lancet Publishing Group
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Summary Brain banks are used to gather, store, and provide human brain tissue for research and have been fundamental to improving our knowledge of the brain in health and disease. To maintain this role, the legal and ethical issues relevant to the operations of brain banks need to be more widely understood. In recent years, researchers have reported that shortages of high-quality brain tissue samples from both healthy and diseased people have impaired their efforts. Closer collaborations between brain banks and improved strategies for brain donation programmes will be essential to overcome these problems as the demand for brain tissue increases and new research techniques become more widespread, with the potential for substantial scientific advances in increasingly common neurological disorders.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Ethical issues
business.industry
Brain
Economic shortage
Tissue Banks
Human brain
Disease
Brain tissue
Tissue Donors
Clinical neurology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Tissue bank
Donation
medicine
Humans
Neurology (clinical)
Nervous System Diseases
Psychiatry
business
Intensive care medicine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14744422
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Lancet Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9a7bed35b44ab79dcd6c409418a47d59