ReviewCell and tissue banking2018
Banking brains: a pre-mortem "how to" guide to successful donation.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Why people donate their brain to science: a systematic review.Cell and tissue banking · 2019Pooled it
- The Relationship between Rest Tremor and Underlying Lewy Pathology in Essential Tremor: A Clinical-Pathological Study of 201 Cases.Annals of neurology · 2025Article
- Brain donation rules in Italy and worldwide: overview of a cutting-edge topic for human brain research.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Review
- Axonal pathology differentially affects human Purkinje cell subpopulations in the essential tremor cerebellum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Axonal pathology differentially affects human Purkinje cell subtypes in the essential tremor cerebellum.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Research autopsy programmes in oncology: shared experience from 14 centres across the world.The Journal of pathology · 2024Article
- Gene Expression Analysis of Laser-Captured Purkinje Cells in the Essential Tremor Cerebellum.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2023Article
- Attitudes of people with multiple sclerosis toward brain donation.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- A qualitative study exploring the process of postmortem brain tissue donation after suicide.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Brain Donation Decisions as Disease Specific Behaviors: An Elucidation of the Donation Process in the Context of Essential Tremor.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Brain donation in the era of COVID 19: challenges to the harvest in the face of a pandemic.Cell and tissue banking · 2021Review
- Promise and challenges of dystonia brain banking: establishing a human tissue repository for studies of X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2021Article
- Gene expression analysis of the cerebellar cortex in essential tremor.Neuroscience letters · 2020Article
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Abstract
A review of the brain banking literature reveals a primary focus either on the factors that influence the decision to become a future donor or on the brain tissue processing that takes place after the individual has died (i.e., the front-end or back-end processes). What has not been sufficiently detailed, however, is the complex and involved process that takes place after this decision to become a future donor is made yet before post-mortem processing occurs (i.e., the large middle-ground). This generally represents a period of many years during which the brain bank is actively engaged with donors to ensure that valuable clinical information is prospectively collected and that their donation is eventually completed. For the past 15 years, the Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository has been actively involved in brain banking, and our experience has provided us valuable insights that may be useful for researchers interested in establishing their own brain banking efforts. In this piece, we fill a gap in the literature by detailing the processes of enrolling participants, creating individualized brain donation plans, collecting clinical information and regularly following-up with donors to update that information, and efficiently coordinating the brain harvest when death finally arrives.
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