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Table 1.

International List of Active Postmortem Brain Banks



Postmortem Brain Banks	Location
University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank ^a	Miami, FL
University of Maryland Brain and Tissue Bank ^a	Baltimore, MD
Stanley Brain Collection	Chevy Chase, MD
Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center ^a	Belmont, MA
Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Consortium Brain Bank	Irvine, CA
dHuman Brain and spinal Fluid Resource Center ^a	Los Angeles, CA
Mt. Sinai Brain Bank^a	Bronx, NY
Brain Tissue Donation Program at the University of Pittsburg ^a	Pittsburgh, PA
Douglas - Bell Canada Brain Bank	Montreal, Quebec
Netherlands Brain Bank ^b	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Human Brain Tissue Bank Budapest ^b	Budapest, Hungary
Neurobiobank Munich ^b	Munich, Germany
The London Brain Bank for Neurodegenerative Diseases ^b	London, UK
New South Wales Tissue Resource Centre ^c	Sydney, Australia
South Australian Brain Bank ^c	Adelaide, Australia
Victorian Brain Bank ^c	Parkville, Australia
Neurological Foundation of New Zealand Human Brain Bank	Grafton, New Zealand
Human Brain Tissue Repository. NIMHM	Bangalore, India
Chinese Brain Bank Center	Wuhan City, China

An active list of postmortem brain banks worldwide with available neuropsychiatric specimens. Some of these brain repositories are part of larger research consortiums and biobanks.

= NIH NeuroBiobank,

= BrainNet Europe,

= Australian Brain Bank Network