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epilepsy research

Tue, 03/06/2007 - 18:51
does anyone have any information on how you would go about donating your body for epilepsy research after you die?

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Re: epilepsy research

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2007-03-07 - 16:24
I believe you can contact a medical school, preferably one that has an epilepsy center associated with it and a 'brain bank' where they do studies to better understand neurological disorders. Another idea is the NINDS (branch of the NIH which deals with neurological disorders. Let me find out some specific contact numbers for people.. genetic researchers in epilepsy would be another resource.

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Re: epilepsy research

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2007-03-08 - 06:01
Did some homework on this. CURE or Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy received funding to establish a brain bank specifically for epilepsy research. I don't know if it is up and running yet, but here is the contact info.

www.cureepilepsy.org/contact/index.html

Hope this helps,

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www.cureepilepsy.org/contact/index.html

Hope this helps,

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