Podcast/Webinar Archives - Brain Donor Project

Webinar: American Brain Coalition – Ensuring Underserved Populations are Included in Brain Donation

The need for donated human brain tissue is more critical than ever – neuroscientists are making great strides in the search for treatments and cures for brain disease. Still, most Americans aren’t aware of how necessary brain donation is, and many have incorrect assumptions about brain donation.

Webinar: Research! America – Discussion with Tish Hevel, CEO of The Brain Donor Project

Tish Hevel, CEO of The Brain Donor Project joined us for a discussion on brain donation. In concert with the NeuroBioBank of the National Institutes of Health, The Brain Donor Project is the leading organization working to increase awareness and facilitate brain donation in pursuit of faster neurological scientific breakthroughs.

Podcast: International Essential Tremor Foundation Talking about the Brain Donor Project

Tish Hevel, CEO of the Brain Donor Project, explains the process of becoming a brain donor. Brain donation is critical to the role of identifying treatments and cures for all kinds of brain disease, including essential tremor.

Webinar – Perspectives in FTD Research: Brain Donation – Who, What, When and Why

Brain donation is crucial in advancing the science of FTD. But navigating the donation process can be complicated. How does a person donate their brain, and to whom?

Video: Dementia Action Alliance – Organ Donor Does Not Mean Brain Donor – What You Need to Know

Tish Hevel with host Laurie Scherrer discuss why brain donation is important and how to donate your brain. Signing as an organ donor does not donate your brain. This simple process can help the neurological science field in so many ways.

Podcast: Coming Home Well – Sgt. Cody Bates: The Importance of his Pledge for Brain Donation

Tish Hevel talks with Sgt. Thomas Cody Bank on his commitment to donate his brain for neuroscience research.

Podcast: Behind the Service – Semper Fi and America’s Fund on Brain Donation

Tish is joined today by Suzanne Waddingham, a registered nurse with the Semper Fi & America’s Fund Visiting Nurse Program, to discuss brain donation.

Podcast: Coming Home Well – Gunny’s Warriors: Medical Hardships of War and Importance of Brain Donation

Tish talks with Tim Voss of Gunny’s Warriors about his head trauma and medical issues he struggles with from being in service.

Podcast: Do Good Better – Advancing Science through Brain Donation – The Brain Donor Project

The Brain Donor Project exists to increase brain donation to advance science, leading to the treatment and cure of neurological, neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. They’re here to increase awareness for and simplify the process of brain donation.

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