Brain bank

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Brain banks (also known as brain tissue banks or brain tissue banks ) are used to collect brain tissue from patients who have died of various neurological or psychiatric diseases in order to make it available for scientific research. The creation of such brain banks falls within the remit of neuropathology .

As networks of brain banks is in Germany the BrainNet Germany and in Europe the BrainNet Europe .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neurobiobank Munich. In: neuropathologie.med.uni-muenchen.de. Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research of the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  2. Brain banks ( Memento from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: neuropathologie.med.uni-muenchen.de , Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research of the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
  3. ^ Brain-Net Germany. In: neuropathologie.med.uni-muenchen.de. Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research of the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  4. ^ BrainNet Europe. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .