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Participate in a study. Research in the last 5 years has lead to new discoveries about the brain which gives all of us more hope.

1. Northwest Behavioral Research Center 
2. NIMH Trial Information 
3. NIMH Patient Recruitment   
4. Emory University   
5. Medical College of Georgia 
6. VA Medical Center   
7. NARSAD     
8. International Mental Health Research Organization  
9. Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research  
10. Harvard Brain Tissue Center Become a brain donor

                                                                      1-800-BRAIN BANK (1-800-272-4622)

                                                                      Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center

                                                                      McLean Hospital

                                                                      115 Mill Street

                                                                      Belmont, MA  02478

WHY Should I Become a Brain Tissue Donor?

In order to conduct careful studies of biologically-based brain disorders, it is essential that researchers have access to tissue from individuals who DO NOT suffer from a debilitating brain dysfunction as well as from individuals who DO  to identify comparative anatomical differences. Recent neurochemical and anatomical studies, focused on the biological nature of severe brain disorders, are opening the possibility of understanding the mechanisms responsible for these disorders.  However, a long-standing shortage of brain tissue has greatly hindered postmortem research into the neurobiology of the human brain.  Because each study only requires the use of a very small amount of tissue, each donated brain provides a large number of samples which can be utilized in a very diverse group of studies.

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