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Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center

Belmont, Maryland

Cause Description:
Most recently, postmortem human brain research has played a significant role in the development of a genetic test for Huntington's disease as well as a treatment for Parkinson's disease. Similarly, neurochemical and anatomical studies focusing on the biological nature of the severe mental illnesses are now emerging and bringing forth new hope for understanding the underlying brain mechanisms responsible for psychosis and other symptoms associated with these debilitating brain disorders. In order to perform research into the neurological or psychiatric disorders, it is vital to collect normal control tissue as well. Supported By: National Institute of Mental Health National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke Alzheimer Disease Association of Indiana Hereditary Disease Foundation Tourette Syndrome Association Wills Foundation

Type: Scientific/Technological
Listed on iGive since: August 1999
iGive members supporting: 8

Website: http://www.brainbank.mclean.org:8080/

Raised through iGive: $18.21 across 1 check, December 1999 to December 1999.

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