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http://www.worldpdcongress.org

A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing an international forum for the latest scientific discoveries, medical practices and caregiver initiatives related to Parkinson's disease. It hosts the annual World Parkinson Congress, an event which focuses on bringing physicians, scientists, allied health professionals, caregivers and people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease together, in order to create a global dialogue that will help expedite treatment practices and the discovery of a cure .

Proper citation: World Parkinson Congress (RRID:SCR_002034) Copy   

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http://www.wpda.org

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. The World Parkinson's Disease Association is an alliance of members from all over the world who have come together to share information about Parkinson's disease. In order to further Parkinson's research and better the condition of those diagnosed with the disease, the Association: establishes computerized connections; takes part in and/or finances research activities; urges pharmaceutical companies and government institutions of the various countries to support the guidelines recommended by the associations of Parkinson's patients; and coordinates and promotes interchange of information among its members with the aim of solving problems of mutual interest.

Proper citation: World Parkinson Disease Association (RRID:SCR_002035) Copy   

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http://www.neurosci.ucsd.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 31, 2016. The Laboratory of Experimental Neuropathology is engaged in the study of neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and the dementia of HIV encephalitis. It contains a large bank of materials available to fellow investigators including images, publications, and lab safety. Fellow Investigators and Collaborators may request materials from the brain bank. Technologies employed by the laboratory include immunocytochemistry, neurochemistry, molecular genetics, transgenic models of disease, and imaging by scanning laser confocal microscopy.

Proper citation: UCSD Experimental Neuropath Laboratory (RRID:SCR_004906) Copy   

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http://www.bri.ucla.edu

Portal touching on all aspects of neuroscience from molecules to the mind, from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside. Members study the normal structure and workings of the nervous system, its development, its cognitive functions, its derangement by disease and injury, and the means of its repair and protection. Projects span traditional disciplinary boundaries, as do graduate and postdoctoral training programs. Its major achievement has been to foster and improve multidisciplinary collaborations which has increasingly permitted the identification of pathogenic mechanisms and the formulation of new therapeutic approaches.

Proper citation: Brain Research Institute (RRID:SCR_004988) Copy   

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http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/taub/index.html

An institute which conducts research of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other age-related brain diseases. This organization also provides clinical evaluations to patients with memory problems, Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia. Furthermore, the institute leads multi-center clinical trials for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other age-related brain diseases. There is a brain donation program for enrolled/examined patients. The Education Core of the Taub Institute sponsors community events and Continuing Medical Education programs, as well as the distribution of periodic newsletters and brochures highlighting research developments and other Alzheimer's topics.

Proper citation: Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimers Disease and the Aging Brain (RRID:SCR_008802) Copy   

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http://madrc.mgh.harvard.edu/

An Alzheimer's disease research center which supports new research and enhances ongoing research by providing core support to bringing together behavioral, biomedical, and clinical scientists. The Center conducts multidisciplinary research, trains scientists, and spreads information about Alzheimer's disease and related disorders to the general public. The principal goal of the Massachusetts ADRC is to support research in aging, Alzheimer's Disease and other related disorders. Researchers work with national and international multi-disciplinary teams to understand: normal aging, the transition from normal aging to mild forms of memory problems, and the later stages of dementia. The Massachusetts ADRC has an active brain donation program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for patients as well as subjects enrolled in research studies.

Proper citation: Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (RRID:SCR_008764) Copy   

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http://www.ttuhsc.edu/centers/aging/giabrainbank.aspx

The Brain Bank was developed with two service-minded objectives: provide a free brain autopsy to confirm clinical diagnosis of dementia, and collect, bank and provide brain tissue to qualified scientific researchers studying diseases related to dementia. By working together, patients and researchers can help us understand the origins of neurodegenerative disease and eventually improve the treatment and care of dementia. The clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can only be confirmed by brain autopsy, or the examination of brain tissue after death. This examination will determine a patients's precise type of dementia. To confirm the diagnosis of Alzheimer's, for example, the brain tissue is examined for amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles by a neuropathologist. The presence of these plaques and tangles will verify the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. While it is important to us to enroll patients with dementia, it is equally important to enroll people with no dementia. These subjects are termed as controls and the brain tissue from controls will enable researchers to make comparisons to brain tissue from dementia patients. We are seeking donations from individuals who have had an age-related neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Lewy Body or other related dementia.

Proper citation: GIA Brain Bank Program (RRID:SCR_008877) Copy   

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http://www.med.upenn.edu/cndr/biosamples-brainbank.html

A brain and tissue bank that contains human brain samples from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related neurodegenerative dementias and movement disorders. This brain bank serves as a resource for scientists and researchers, providing access to tissue samples for further research. While priority is given to University of Pennsylvania researchers, this bank will provide requests to researchers not associated with the University of Pennsylvania. This tissue bank accepts donations from those seeing a University of Pennsylvania physician or collaborator.

Proper citation: University of Pennslyvania Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_008820) Copy   

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http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/udall_center/

A research program associated with bringing together researchers from various disciplines to study the genetic and molecular basis of Parkinson's disease. The program focuses on epidemiological and longitudinal studies of Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and aging and dementia. It also provides clinical materials for other research projects. This program provides faculty research funds, invited speaker seminar series, sponsorship of movement disorder fellowships, pilot research grants, and support for faculty travel to promote intra-institutional collaborations.

Proper citation: Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson's Disease Research (RRID:SCR_008778) Copy   

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http://www.lji.org/faculty-research/scientific-cores/functional-genomics-sequencing-core/#overview

Non profit collaborative research organization located in La Jolla, California, UCSD Research Park. Institute researches immunology and immune system diseases to pinpoint specific genes involved, accelerate progress toward development of new treatments and vaccines to prevent and cure type 1 diabetes, cancer and infectious disease. Developer of Immune Epitope Database (IEDB). Provides core facilities with access to equipment, technologies, training and expertise to support innovative research.

Proper citation: La Jolla Institute for Immunology (RRID:SCR_014837) Copy   

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http://www.brain-net.net/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on June 28,2022. A network of several university centers in Germany that classifies neurological and psychiatric disorders neuropathologically and collects and provides brain tissue for research. The aim and task of the Brain-Net are: the collection of clinically and neuropathologically well-characterized brain tissue samples; the standardization of neuropathological diagnoses according to internationally accepted criteria; and providing a basis for future research projects using genetic, epidemiological, biometric and other issues to neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Proper citation: Brain-Net (RRID:SCR_005017) Copy   

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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/departments/molecular/themes/neurodegeneration/brainbank

A brain bank which holds an archive of brains donated by individuals with neurodegenerative disease and others who serve as neurologically normal controls. It specializes in parkinsonian movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy, and holds the national collection of brains donated by individuals with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Recently the collection has been developed to include donated brains from prospectively studied people with familial dementias. The QSBB also banks brains donated by people with dystonia and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. The Brain Bank aims to provide brain tissue for neuropathological studies and for scientific research both in the UK and worldwide. The large collection of tissue is backed up by clinical documentation and all material is fully evaluated by the neuropathologists at QSBB. Brain tissue is stored as formalin-fixed, wax embedded blocks and is frozen, either at -20 degrees C or at -80 degrees C (flash-frozen). Tissue can be provided as slide-mounted sections, or as small blocks for neurochemistry, proteomics and DNA and RNA analysis. Flash-frozen material has excellent histological preservation and is suitable for in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. Case-control studies are matched for post-mortem delay and agonal status and are supplied blind.

Proper citation: Queen Square Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_004652) Copy   

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http://med.brown.edu/neurology/brainbank/index.html

A tissue resource center which facilitates research into the relationship between Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders such as strokes and mental illnesses. Most donations have been obtained from Alzheimer's patients. Normal controls are available, many of which are from subjects with close relatives with Alzheimer's. The Brown BTRC also supports a collection of brain tumor cases that were harvested from patients who underwent surgery and who were enrolled in a clinical trial for the development of new treatments for brain cancer.

Proper citation: Brown Brain Tissue Resource Center (RRID:SCR_005392) Copy   

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http://polygenicpathways.blogspot.com/

A blog concerning the relationships between genes, risk factors and immunity in Alzheimer's disease, autism, Bipolar disorder, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and chronic fatigue.

Proper citation: PolygenicBlog (RRID:SCR_008789) Copy   

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http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/cind

Biomedical technology research center that develops and validates new imaging methods for detecting brain abnormalities in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, as well as epilepsy, depression, and other conditions associated with nerve loss in the brain. As people around the globe live longer, the impact of neurodegenerative diseases is expected to increase further with dire social and economical consequences for societies if no effective treatments are developed soon. The development at CIND is aimed to improve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The ultimate goal of the scientific program is to identify imaging markers that improve accuracy in diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases at early stages, achieve more reliable prognoses of disease progression, and facilitate the discovery of effective treatment interventions. In addition to addressing the general needs for studying neurodegenerative diseases, another focus of CIND concerns brain diseases associated with military service and war combat, such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), brain trauma, gulf war illness and the long-term effects of these conditions on the mental health of veterans. The symbiosis between CIND and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Francisco makes this program uniquely suited to serve military veterans.

Proper citation: Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (RRID:SCR_001968) Copy   

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http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/clinical-departments/pathology/research/oregon-brain-bank.cfm

Brain bank that harvests, banks and disperses postmortem tissue for use in brain and medical research. It also provides neuropathologic diagnoses of organic dementia in a cohort of NIH sponsored research subjects. The bank includes tissue primarily from patients with Alzheimer's but also includes Huntington's, Parkinson's, and other disorders.

Proper citation: Oregon Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_013085) Copy   

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http://www.eurobiobank.org/en/partners/description/inncb_copy.htm#organisation

A biobank of human biological material and genetic information. It provides samples and information to researchers in order to identify new genes and clarify pathogenic mechanisms of diseases. The biobank offers biochemical and molecular diagnoses of genetic dystonias, Parkinson's disease and NBIA disorders, as well as storage of biological samples for external institutions.

Proper citation: Movement Disorders Biobank (RRID:SCR_010659) Copy   

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http://brainhealthregistry.org/

A website aimed at recruiting and assessing subjects for all types of neuroscience studies with the internet. The hope is to accelerate various types of observational studies and clinical trials, and also reduce costs. They are interested in having people, including healthy subjects of all ages, join the registry. Joining only takes a few minutes. The web-based project is designed to speed up cures for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other brain disorders. It uses online questionnaires and online neuropsychological tests (which are very much like online brain games).

Proper citation: Brain Health Registry (RRID:SCR_010230) Copy   

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http://braintissuebank.dal.ca

A biomaterial supply resource which supplies brain tissue for researchers studying dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. The Maritime Brain Tissue Bank archives tissues related to Alzheimer's Disease, mixed dementias, Lewy Body Disease, and Huntington's Disease, among others.

Proper citation: Maritime Brain Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_013838) Copy   

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http://www.ndriresource.org/

NDRI is a Not-For-Profit (501c3) Corporation dedicated to providing the highest quality human biomaterials for research. NDRI makes it easy for researchers to get the human tissues and organs they need, prepared, preserved and shipped precisely according to their specific scientific protocols, as quickly as possible, and in the largest available quantities. NDRI provides researchers with protocol specific human neurological tissues such as brain stem, spinal cord, and basal ganglia, among others. In addition to control specimens, NDRI recovers tissues from donors with a variety of diseases, including Down syndrome, Parkinsons disease, Alzheimers disease, schizophrenia, and dementia. Through the NDRI 24/7 referral and procurement system, research consented biospecimens can be provided from low post mortem interval donors preserved at 4ºC, frozen or snap frozen, fixed, paraffin embedded, or as unstained slides.

Proper citation: National Disease Research Interchange (RRID:SCR_000550) Copy   

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