Chances are, if your family has donated a loved one’s brain, you’ve also had these experiences. We’d love to hear about the person you lost, why they made the commitment to donate their brain, and how the experience has been for you.
The last week of February is an important one to us at The Brain Donor Project. It’s Rare Disease Week – when the spotlight is on better ways to diagnose, treat and cure diseases that affect a smaller amount of people.
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.
Tish Hevel talks with Sgt. Thomas Cody Bank on his commitment to donate his brain for neuroscience research.
Tish is joined today by Suzanne Waddingham, a registered nurse with the Semper Fi & America’s Fund Visiting Nurse Program, to discuss 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.
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.
Tish Hevel, Founder & CEO of the Brain Donor Project, is joined by Jan and Mike Pieraccini (founders of Gunny’s Warriors) to talk about their son Ryan’s wishes to create his legacy by donating his brain to research.
A live Q+A and radio broadcast inspired over 1,000 listeners to pledge their brains to scientific research. Future donors share their motivations and questions about brain donations.
Tish talks with Yitzi Weiner as part of his series, Social Impact Heroes, for Authority Magazine, about the Brain Donor Project
