摘要
Human brain banks collect,preserve,and distribute postmortem and biopsied brain samples for histological,pathological,and molecular research.Different from the western countries,human brain banking in China has remained preliminary over decades.However,joint efforts during the past few years have substantially promoted this key frontier of neuroscience in China.This special topic brings together review and perspective articles on the ethical,administrative,and practical issues of brain banking.Several original studies report molecular and pathological characterizations based on banked human brain samples.
