A
freezer and alarm failure, causing severe damage to one-third of the frozen brain tissue specimens stored at one Harvard Brain Bank center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, a collection
owned by Autism Speaks, is a real setback to autism research and a wake-up call to other brain banks. The study of donated brains drives some of the most important research into
autism,
Alzheimer's, traumatic brain injury, and other neurological and psychiatric conditions. We have
written before about the
Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), a brain bank affiliated with the Boston University Medical Center and
the Sports Legacy Institute at the Bedford Veterans
Administration Medical Center in Bedford, Massachusetts. Several groups are investigating the Harvard incident. More in the
excellent boston.com story.
[Image: Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center]
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