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ReviewClinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil)2008

Is brain banking of psychiatric cases valuable for neurobiological research?

Andrea Schmitt, Eleni Parlapani, Manfred Bauer, Helmut Heinsen, Peter Falkai

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Review in Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Brain banking in the United States and Europe: Importance, challenges, and future trends.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2024
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  2. The Concept of an Epilepsy Brain Bank.Frontiers in neurology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrea SchmittDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Goettingen, Germany. aschmit@gwdg.de
Eleni Parlapani
Manfred Bauer
Helmut Heinsen
Peter Falkai
University of Göttingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is widely accepted that neurobiological abnormalities underlie the symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and unipolar or bipolar affective disorders. New molecular methods, computer-assisted quantification techniques and neurobiological investigation methods that can be applied to the human brain are all used in post-mortem investigations of psychiatric disorders. The following article describes modern quantitative methods and recent post-mortem findings in schizophrenia and affective disorders. Using our brain bank as an example, necessary considerations of modern brain banking are addressed such as ethical considerations, clinical work-up, preparation techniques and the organization of a brain bank, the value of modern brain banking for investigations of psychiatric disorders is summarized.

Indexed as

Tissue BanksAutopsyBipolar DisorderBrainHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedNeurobiologyPsychiatrySchizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID18438581
PMCPMC2664212
OpenAlexW2103988525

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