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. 2003 Jun;29(3):165–168. doi: 10.1136/jme.29.3.165

Brain donation for schizophrenia research: gift, consent, and meaning

M Boyes 1, P Ward 1
PMCID: PMC1733720  PMID: 12796437

Abstract

The Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders's (NISAD) "Gift of Hope" Tissue Donor Program is a volunteer programme for people who wish to donate their brain when they die for neuroscience research into schizophrenia. Organ donation for purposes of research differs from transplant donation in a number of ways, most notably the absence of a single recipient. Within a particular community, however, (people with schizophrenia and their carers) the single recipient is replaced by a sense of shared experience and preventing suffering in others. Donors have an investment in the research.

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