Human brain bank at NIMHANS

摘要

A Repository for Human Brain Tissue is available in the form of a brain bank at the Department of Neuropathology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. This is a national facility jointly funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Council of Medical Research and NIMHANS. This brain bank collects, preserves and provides fresh human tissue for researchers, especially those in the field of neurosciences, with particular relevance to degenerative diseases, psychiatric diseases, neurobiology and neuroinfection. Research in these areas requires use of both animal models and human brain tissue for understanding several brain functions and disorders. The genesis of this repository was in 1984, after a meeting in Bangalore considered the overall direction of neuroscience activity in the country. One consequence of this meeting was the finding that although neuroscience research was spread all over the country, there was little interaction among various branches pertaining to neuroscience research. The Repository for Human Brain Tissue was then set up at NIMHANS in 1995.