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Brain banking systems and networks in various parts of the world. exhibit a large variety; they differ in many aspects which affect and influence the main fields of scientific research, as the flow of dessiminated material strongly depends on the legal, ethical, cultural and religious background and reflects the local situation in each country. The daily practice and routine procedures of brain banks in three continents (Europe, Asia and America) represent basic differences in the nations involved, scientific communities and the interactions between these two. European brain banks differ from the American and Asian groups collecting postmortem material for research. The various networks collaborate on the standardisation of protocols and diagnostic criteria and try to establish solid concensus criteria. Brain banking is not well advanced in Asian countries. There are several lines of reasons for this. Firstly, the biological approach to psychiatric disorders are not well accepted among psychiatrists compared with western countries. Secondly, spontaneous participation of users and families to understand and to support biological researches are not encouraged enough. However, as initiated by Japan, there is certainly a movement to form a nation-wide brain bank network with internationalized criteria in various Asian countries.
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Matsumoto, I., Niwa, S.I., Ravid, R. (2002). Psychiatric Brain Banks: Situation in Europe and Asia. In: Agam, G., Everall, I.P., Belmaker, R.H. (eds) The Postmortem Brain in Psychiatric Research. Neurobiological Foundation of Aberrant Behaviors, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3631-1_2
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