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McLean’s Brain Bank Receives New Contract From NIH

The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital, known as the Brain Bank, has received a new contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a total of $12,796,394. The McLean Hospital Brain Bank is proud to be one of six brain banks that are part of the NIH NeuroBioBank , a...

Using Modern Molecular Research to Better Understand PTSD

The brain—it only weighs three pounds, and 73% of it is water. But the remaining 27% is a dynamic computing machine that contains an estimated 100 billion neurons and has the capacity to generate 23 watts of power across synapses while awake. That system of neural connections is what separates...

FREED and McLean Hospital Launch the National Eating Disorders Brain Bank

The Foundation for Research and Education in Eating Disorders (FREED) and the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC) at McLean Hospital today announced the establishment of the first and only national brain bank dedicated to research in eating disorders . The National Eating Disorders Brain...

Brain Power: Francine M. Benes, MD, PhD

As an aspiring neuroscientist in the late 1960s, Francine M. Benes, MD, PhD, worked in a neuroscience research laboratory at Creedmore State Mental Health Hospital in Queens, New York, where she had the chance to observe patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. The young graduate...

Staff Profile: Sabina Berretta, MD

Sabina Berretta, MD, began her research training under the mentorship of Dr. V. Perciavalle at University of Catania, Italy. In 1990, she joined the laboratory directed by Dr. A. M. Graybiel in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, working neural circuitry linking the motor cortex...

Staff Profile: W. Brad Ruzicka, MD, PhD

W. Brad Ruzicka, MD, PhD, specializes in the clinical treatment and basic investigation of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Dr. Ruzicka provides direct patient care within multiple settings in the hospital’s Division of Psychotic Disorders. Dr. Ruzicka’s research is focused on the role of...

Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center

The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC), established at McLean Hospital in 1978 and known as the Brain Bank, is a centralized resource for the collection and distribution of human brain specimens for brain research. The Brain Bank collects brain and tissue samples from across the United...