Harvard Brain Bank



If you are a very ordinary, normal people without mental disorders
If you have a neurobiological disorder
If you suffer from schizophrenia or constantly in manic-depression, and may have close relatives with these disorders ... that you all are waiting in the biggest pot of brains in the world, located at Harvard, which is based in McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. To date, more than 7,000 are kept voluntarily donated human brain. You can leave your brain and among the lucky ones, though, if you are over 18.

To join his body of thought to this unique collection, you need to go through quite a simple operation registration, after which the Harvard Institute for Brain Research will sign a contract with you, and ... you can consider himself at the club. Naturally, parents, spouses or other relatives should be aware of your intentions, what would have happened then any omissions, as under the law, after the death of your body will be wholly owned by them. Apart from directly giving your brain, you can donate and its other organs, or even the whole body (in this case, the brain will not extract), but we must remember that after the death of the brain starts fairly quickly break down, and their relatives must be both quickly inform the experts from Harvard. It must be removed within 24 hours, or within a tissue will already catastrophic changes. That is why the human brain is valued much higher than other parts of the body. Also, potential donors need to know that information about who it belongs to is the gray matter in the bank - is strictly classified. Also, the removal of the brain is not prohibited by any religious movements, even relatives can bury you in an open coffin - your thinking center will be removed from the jewelry art experienced surgeons. In total, the bank annually brains come 240 copies of the brain with mental disabilities, and 30 healthy people. This is due primarily to the fact that people do not think about the benefits that science can bring this bunch convolutions.

Source: rumbur.ru/science/1162-garvardskii-bank-mozgov

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