Table 1.

Brain collections providing tissue samples for stereological studies of the thalamus in schizophrenia.

Brain bank number	Name	Comments
1	Mount Sinai/Bronx VA Schizophrenia Brain Bank, USA	Community sample. 80 μm frozen sections.
2	Runwell Hospital, Essex; Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast; and Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; UK	Hospital sample. 25 μm paraffin sections.
3	New Magdeburg Brain Collection, Germany	Psychiatric hospital sample. 20 μm paraffin sections.
4	Sct. Hans Psychiatric Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark	Psychiatric hospital sample. Long-time hospitalized patients. Thick (40 μm) and thin (4 μm) paraffin sections.
5	The Brain Collection, Risskov, Denmark	Psychiatric hospital sample. Old collection of 9479 brains from psychiatric patients including chronically-hospitalized and untreated subjects with schizophrenia. Fixed tissue blocks.
6	Brain Tissue Repository of the Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, USA	Community sample. 50 μm frozen sections.
7	Terrell State Hospital, and the Waco VA Medical Center, USA	Psychiatric hospital sample. 60 μm frozen sections
8	The Stanley Foundation Neuropathology Consortium, USA	Community sample. Thalamus cohort: 15 schizophrenia, 15 controls, 15 major depression, 15 bipolar. 60 μm frozen sections from deparaffinated paraffin blocs.
9	Allegheny County Coroner’s Office, Pittsburgh, USA	Community sample. 80 μm frozen sections.
10	Morphological Brain Research Unit, University of Wuerzburg, Germany	Psychiatric hospital sample. Chronically-hospitalized patients. Large whole-hemisphere 600–700 μm thick frozen sections.
11	New South Wales Tissue Resource Centre, Australia	Community sample. 50 μm frozen sections.