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National Geographic Magazine: More Brains Make Research Possible

National Geographic cover featuring a boy with a small monkey on his head and page titled "More Brains Make Research Possible"National Geographic Magazine highlights the critical need for post-mortem human brain tissue to advance neuroscience research.

Tish Hevel founded The Brain Donor Project after her father died of Lewy Body Dementia. He was able to donate his brain to science, but the process was complicated. The Brain Donor Project’s mission is to raise awareness of the need for brain donation and to simplify the process to do so.

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