It looks like our stroke association failures have managed to not include stroke damaged brains in such donations. How the hell do we expect researchers to correlate damage to expressed physical problems? Right now we have no specific damage diagnosis from any stroke, so without that our therapists are working completely in the dark. And by looking at stroke damaged brains you might be able to see how well neuroplasticity and neurogenesis worked. Otherwise everyone in stroke is just happily whistling in the dark. And survivors get no closer to 100% recovery.
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2013/12/03/feds-increase-brain/18935/
Federal officials say there’s an urgent need for people to donate
their brains for research on autism, Down syndrome and other disorders
and now they’re taking a more active role in the effort.
The National Institutes of Health is launching a new initiative bringing together five brain banks in a tissue-sharing network.
Known as NeuroBioBank,
the effort will offer a single source for researchers seeking brain
tissue to study and provide information for those interested in donating
their brain after they die, much like more common organ donation.
“Instead of having to seek out brain tissue needed for a study from
scattered repositories, researchers will have one-stop access to the
specimens they need,” said Thomas Insel, director of the NIH’s National
Institute of Mental Health.
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