Using Autopsy Brain Tissue to Study Alcohol-Related Brain Damage in the Genomic Age

The New South Wales Tissue Resource Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, is one of the few human brain banks dedicated to the study of the effects of chronic alcoholism. The bank was affiliated in 1994 as a member of the National Network of Brain Banks and also focuses on schizophrenia and healthy control tissue.

Alcohol abuse is a major problem worldwide, manifesting in such