Australian Brain Bank Network
For diagnosis and research into neurological and psychiatric disorders
The Australian Brain Bank Network (ABBN) is collaboration between brain banks across Australia to optimise collection, handling and use of human brain tissue and related samples for the conduct of research into neurological and psychiatric conditions.
The ABBN encompasses brain collections in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia and has the function of collecting post-mortem human brains from individuals who have had Alzheimer's disease, bipolar mood disorder, depression, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and other neurological and psychiatric diseases.
The tissue collected by the ABBN provides Australian and international researchers, including researchers at the Howard Florey Institute, with clinically and neuropathologically well-characterised human brain tissue on which they can conduct research into neurological and psychiatric disorders. Such research adds to those relying on neuroimaging technology, animal models and cell culture systems in adding valuable information as to the underlying causes of diseases of the human brain.
The ABBN supports national voluntary brain donor programs. The programs seek to recruit individuals to make the commitment to donate their brain at the time of death. Brains from people who have brain diseases and from those who are not affected by such disorders, are needed as comparisons to enable the changes caused by various brain diseases to be determined.
For more information visits the ABBN website:
www.nnf.com.au/abbn
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