Spain is the world leader in organ donation. But there is a place that does not find a place on the platform: the brain. Once appointed to … Science after death, it may not save life immediately, but it opens a full area of opportunities for researchers looking for treatments against neurological degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s or atrophic lateral sclerosis (ELA). Instead, I prefer to give the average life expectancy in the future.
Despite its vital importance, donation by patients, in good health or with diseases, at low hours. The average records of these fabrics in 16 biobancos in Spain were about half a thousand every year. Experts say today, “After the stone gun, the number does not exceed 200.
With this central message, the Rina Sofia Foundation launched a campaign to raise awareness of citizens to raise the number of donations from this mysterious vital body. “Unusual brains”The logo that was chosen for that, talks about exactly the opposite. That is, that the brain of anyone is unusual enough to serve science.
Thus, the cooperation of patients who died with nervous degeneration diseases, and those who did this with their healthy brain. The first, like Javier de Felipe, recalls a research professor at the Kagal Institute (CSIC), helps to understand the performance of this mysterious organ, which is essential to studying these diseases.
“What we discovered thanks to these materials is extraordinary.”
His Majesty Queen Donna Sofia, during the presentation of the “Extraordinary Brain” campaign in the center of Valekas, bears his name.
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If any brain donated is valuable, then those who have suffered from “irreplaceable” diseases to search for effective treatments, to relieve symptoms and stop the progress of the disease.
Dr. Rosario Moratla, director of the Cagal Institute (CSIC), explained that researchers are working with animal models, warning, “They will never reproduce these diseases with all their complexity.” Moreover, any animal discovery should be contradictory later in post -death tissue.
Disease needs
Alberto Rabno, Director Textile Bank at the Center for Neurological Diseases Research (BTCien), the most important in the country to assemble it with the study of living patients, stressed that the current network allows families to donate almost everything “everything”. Canary Islands and Zaragoza are in the process of enabling new banks for this purpose.
For his part, the importance of understanding families also highlighted their “right” to cooperate with the investigation of these diseases. To do this, they can rely on hospital specialists to practice this.
On behalf of the group involved in the clinical practice, he participated in the discussion after the campaign was launched by Dr. Alberto Villarigo, head of the nerves at the 12th of October Hospital. He stressed that the importance of promoting with families with donation, but above all social awareness, because there is a “great difference in preparation” to donate when people know the process and transcend it.
On the current Biobancos needs, there are differences in diseases. For example, radish emphasized that there are very few donations, very few of this prevailing disease -especially among women -such as multiple sclerosis.
“There are also a few Parkinson’s patients,” he remembers, unlike others who suffer from more awareness, such as Alzheimer’s disease. This decrease in donations is something that is repeated in other European countries, the BTCien manager, partially driven by the sharp decrease in the dissection of the bodies.
Specialists and researchers discussed brain donation after the campaign was presented.
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The publishing campaign to donate the brain was clarified about the character of Santiago Ramon e Cagal, the father of neuroscience, and has participated in her great granddaughter Jose Antonio Montegue, the central character of the announcement that will lead to his disbursement from today. In a fun tone, Montegue warned with a smile: “I am not a genius.” The aim of this announcement is to remove mystery of the importance of this donation and encourage residents to take into account their decisions.
