Measuring the impact of brain banking

Dementia is a huge cause of major public health and socio-economic problems throughout the world. Research into these disorders is compromised by the lack of adequate animal or in vitro models and still relies heavily on studying post-mortem human brain tissue. Brain banks are therefore essential research tools for research groups around the world.

Tissue from our brain bank has informed global research since its inception and will continue to do so into the future. To see a map of research institutions that have been provided with tissue from UK brain banks follow this link: UK Brain Banks Network.

Further information about the impact of brain banks can be found here on the UK Brain Banks Network database, simply follow this link: UK Brain Banks Network.

Here you will be able to see summaries of tissue dispatched, brains donated, and publications citing an individual brain bank or the whole network.

To view figures for the South West Dementia Brain Bank, click on ‘Bristol’ in the list of brain banks on the right-hand side (where available), set the dates beginning and ending the period of interest and click ‘preview’.