This list includes major disease categories from which tissue specimens are currently available in the Center’s inventory. Some regions of brain specimens may have been dissected out for use by various researchers. Please see the information on how to obtain specimens from the Center or contact us to see availability of specific diagnoses, structure/regions of the brain, specimens of your research interest.
| DISEASE | TOTAL CASES | FEMALE | MALE | AGE (years) |
DISEASE DURATION (years) |
AUTOLYSIS TIME (hours) |
DIAGNOSES |
| Ataxias | 35 | 18 | 17 | 56.2±23.7 | 17.8±9.4 | 15.3±4.2 | Ataxia, Cerebellar Ataxia, Familial Ataxia, Freidreich's Ataxia, Spinocerebellar Ataxia, Joseph's disease (Machado-Joseph disease), Olivo-Ponto-Cerebellar Atrophy |
| Atypical / Others | 36 | 15 | 21 | 37.1±22.6 | 14.3±10.5 | 16.8±4.6 | Cervical spondylosis, Myotonic Dystrophy, Guillian Barre Syn, Head Trauma, Other Neurological disorder, Cerebral Palsy, post Polio syndrome, Progressive bulbar palsy, Schilder's disease, Sjogren's syndrome, SID Syndrome, Wallerian degeneration |
| Cancer-CNS | 48 | 20 | 28 | 58.2±17.3 | 5.9±2.4 | 14.8±5.7 | Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma, Astrocytoma, Anaplastic Astrocytoma, Brain Metastasis, Brain Tumor, Spine CA, Choroid Plexus Carcinoma, Glioblastoma, Multiforme Glioblastoma, CNS Primary Lymphoma, Melanoma (brain metastasis), Metastatic adenocarcinoma to th |
| Cerebrovascular Disease | 52 | 24 | 29 | 43.8±17.9 | 10.8±2.3 | 15.8±6.1 | Aphasia, Cerebrovascular accident, Cerebrovascular disease, Chronic ischemic cortical damage, Cystic malacic changes, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Hydrocephalus |
| Convulsion Disorder | 42 | 15 | 27 | 34.7±12.6 | 8.4±6.3 | 6.3±4.0 | Epilepsy |
| Dementia and Alzheimer's | 778 | 395 | 383 | 73.6±23.7 | 18.8±12.6 | 14.7±8.1 | Alzheimer's disease, Binswanger's, Cortical basal degeneration, Dementia, etiology not determined Dementia, Frontal Lobe Dementia, Lewy body Dementia, Dementia (MID), fronto-temporal Dementia, Lewy Body disease, Organic brain syndrome, Pick's disease, Pic |
| Infection-CNS | 43 | 27 | 16 | 53.9±18.5 | 6.7±4.5 | 16.3±4.3 | AIDS, Herpes simplex Type I Encephalitis, Herpes zoster Encephalitis, Encephalitis (HSV, HE, etc.), Chronic Encephalitis of Rasmussen, Meningitis, Subacute sclerosis pan encephalitis, Tuberous sclerosis, Usher syndrome type II |
| Inherited-CNS | 344 | 175 | 167 | 36.8±12.5 | 27.2±18.3 | 13.6±6.8 | Angelman's syndrome, Arnold Chiari syndrome, Cerebellum-Cerebrum Atrophy, Global Cerebral Atrophy, Autism, Batten's disease, Charcot Marie tooth, Dento-rubro-pallido-luysian, Down's syndrome, Familial spastic paraplegia, Hereditary spastic paraperesis, Hu |
| Leukodystrophy | 15 | 11 | 4 | 51.0±9.1 | 10.7±7.2 | 11.9±5.0 | Alexander's disease, PML Leukodystrophy, Adreno Leukodystrophy, Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy |
| Motor Neuron Disease | 97 | 51 | 46 | 63.5±20.4 | 24.8±18.1 | 12.4±6.4 | ALS Familial Guamanian type, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| Movement Disorders | 310 | 269 | 41 | 73.4±25.5 | 29.3±18.2 | 12.6±3.9 | Basal ganglia degeneration, Dystonia, Movement disorder, Multi-system atrophy, Parkinson's disease, probable Parkinson's disease, Parkinsonian Syndrome, Progressive supranuclear palsy, Shy-Dagers disease |
| Multiple Sclerosis | 495 | 324 | 171 | 56.1±17.9 | 28.8±18.1 | 12.4±8.3 | Multiple sclerosis, childhood Multiple sclerosis, probable Multiple sclerosis, Central Pontine Myelinosis |
| Narcolepsy | 3 | 0 | 3 | 79.6±14.4 | 30.5±16.8 | 13.8±4.7 | Narcolepsy |
| Neuro Normal Controls | 307 | 167 | 140 | 63.3±26.6 | N/A | 14.9±9.5 | Normal, Adult respiratory distress syndrome, Albers-Schoenberg, aplastic Anemia, bladder CA, breast CA, colon CA, colon with metastasis to the liver CA, esophagus CA, esophagus with metastases CA, larynx CA, liver CA, lung CA, ovarian CA, pancreas CA, pr |
| Neuropathy | 6 | 4 | 2 | 63.6±22.8 | 23.8±22.1 | 11.8±6.3 | Striato-nigral degeneration, global Encephalopathy, Hypomyelination Neurodegenerative disorder, general Neuropathy |
| Psychiatric | 263 | 161 | 102 | 60.1±18.3 | 27.4±19.3 | 13.4±8.1 | Alcohol abuse, bipolar Depression, major Depression, unipolar Depression, Schizophrenia, Substance abuse (not Alcohol), Overdose Suicide |