Scientists Are Asking More People to Donate Their Brains

Scientists are petitioning for more people to donate their brains for research at death. A lack of brain specimens is holding back the research community from further developments. Specifically, they note that they lack brains of people with disorders such as depression and PTSD, in part, because people are unaware that those conditions are caused by changes in brain wiring. The goal is to be able to develop new treatments for mental and neurological disorders.  

See Pallab Ghosh, Scientists Appeal for More People to Donate Their Brains, BBC News, February 17, 2017.