Medical reporter Amy Oshier interviews Tish about why she founded the Brain Donor Project and how the donation process works.
National Council on Aging (ncoa.org). Neuroscientists say there simply is no substitute for donated brain tissue when it comes to finding answers about brain disease.
I think brain donation always starts with a person you love, doesn’t it?
My story is about THIRTEEN women I love. I’ll start with my mother.
The Brain Donor Project is thrilled to welcome Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) executive, Manan Shah, to its Board of Directors.
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.
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.
A million or so Americans have PD, and as we’re living longer than ever, it’s prevalence will only increase. Here’s what you can do.
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.
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?
It’s Brain Awareness Week, as declared by our friends at the Dana Foundation, and a great reason to stop and consider the importance of the single most valuable organ we have.
