Healthbolt » jane asher http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt Health News and Commentary - Weird Health News and Information Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:16:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Parkinson’s Researchers Needs Brains http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/parkinson%e2%80%99s-researchers-needs-brains/ http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/parkinson%e2%80%99s-researchers-needs-brains/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:20:08 +0000 Liz Lewis http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/?p=3660 Post from: Healthbolt

]]> To mark Parkinson’s Awareness Week (April 20-26th) in the United Kingdom (England, Wales, and Scotland)  the Parkinson’s Disease Society has launched a nationwide appeal to get people to pledge to donate their brains for Parkinson’s research.

Wanted: A Few Good Brains

Wanted: A Few Good Brains

Seems that they are running a little low on this organ and without it, are unable to pursue necessary research to help advance Parkinson’s Disease treatments and maybe even find a cure.

But getting people to donate their brains isn’t as easy as getting them to donate other organs. A survey recently commissioned by the Parkinson’s Disease Society has shown that while over 60% are comfortable with donating a heart or a kidney, only 7% are comfortable with donating a brain.

It’s hoped that this brain donation appeal will change that, by bringing out into the open what happens to the donated brains.

Take a trip to the Parkinson’s Brain Bank facility with Jane Asher, actress and president of the London-based Parkinson’s Disease Society, and see what they do…

(image from sxc.hu)

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