Brains on the List of Needed Organ Donations

While some of those diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are well-known by the general public to have neurological causes, the neurological causes of other diseases are not as commonly understood. For example, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are often assumed by the general public to be psychological, but they are actually neurological and can change the structure of the brain. Reference: BBC (Feb. 17, 2017) “Scientists appeal for more people to donate their brains.”