Two of the country’s brain banks, which have worked with the government to store and distribute specimens to researchers studying diseases like Parkinson’s and ALS for more than a decade ...

It promotes and simplifies donations through a network of university brain banks, which distribute preserved tissue to research teams. Tish Hevel, the founder of the project, responded quickly ...

The study appears March 26, in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. Using the resources of two brain banks, the Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank at UCSF and the ...

By comparison, McKee said, "studies of community brain banks show that fewer than 1% of the general population has CTE." In the study published Monday in JAMA Neurology, donors' ages ranged from ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed data from deceased patients who were enrolled in two brain banks – the Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank at UCSF and the Biobank for Aging Studies at ...

In this case, the brains that were analyzed came from three brain banks (from Scotland, the US and Australia). All of these repositories take donations of brains from people who were more likely ...