Celebrating the Parkinson’s UK Brain Bank during Brain Awareness Week
Research into how the brain works, and what happens when things go wrong, is vital to help us find better treatments for Parkinson’s.
From Monday 13 March 2023, we're celebrating Brain Awareness Week, a global campaign to increase public enthusiasm and support for brain science.
The Parkinson's UK Brain Bank
The Parkinson’s UK Brain Bank, based at Imperial College London, is an important tool to assist researchers in their quest to find out what may cause the condition and how to treat it.
This is the only brain bank that’s solely dedicated to Parkinson’s research. Since the Brain Bank was established, it has supplied brain tissue to over 500 research projects. Each donation to the brain bank helps bring us closer to understanding what is happening in the brains of people with Parkinson’s, and ways we can try to slow or stop its progression.
Read more about the Parkinson’s UK Brain Bank.
Find out more about the Brain Bank, and some of the research projects which are helping us understand what goes on in the brain of people with Parkinson’s, by clicking through the links below.
You can also read more about Brain Awareness Week on the Dana Foundation website.
Brain Bank tissue in action
Dr Ian Harrison and Professor Mark Lythgoe at University College London have been studying how our brains clear waste.
Using tissue provided by the Parkinson’s UK Brain Bank, they’re working on finding new treatments to try to slow or stop the progression of Parkinson’s.