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Victorian Brain Bank Network (VBBN) The VBBN are the custodians of a collection of brain and related central nervous system (CNS) samples which have been donated by individuals who have had neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, motor neurone disease and Parkinson’s disease and psychiatric disorders such as bipolar mood disorder, depression and schizophrenia as well as normal ‘control’ cases. The VBBN is located at MHRI, and it is part of the Australian Brain Bank Network (ABBN), which is a not-for-profit consortium of brain banks across Australia. The overall aim of brain banks such as the VBBN is to provide Australian and international researchers with high quality tissue samples and data in order to facilitate research into brain and mind disorders. By making the decision to donate your brain to VBBN, you are helping to facilitate research which has the great potential to unlock our understanding of how brain and mind disorders occur and may lead to;
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