Victorian Brain Bank Neuropathological Diagnostic Service

The neuropathology diagnostic service:

• Is relied on for the validation of research studies using emerging technologies such as neuroimaging, neurogenomics and neuroproteomics.
• Confirms a pre-mortem clinical diagnosis, increases clinicians’ awareness and understanding of atypical presentations of certain brain diseases,
• Precludes an organic basis for psychiatric illness which confounds successful diagnostic classification of these disorders,
• Confirms a diagnosis for donor families, in whom neurological disease may have hereditary or familial association and may be at risk of developing the disease,
• Generates pathological description of brain diseases and advances knowledge of some brain pathologies, thus providing a powerful tool for education and research,
• Generates important health statistics and
• Provides a valuable training opportunity for future neuropathologists and the neuroscience community.