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The following is a list of sites that perform postmortem diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and maintain brain tissue banks for research. Because brain tissue deteriorates very rapidly after death, persons interested in donating tissue should discuss autopsy arrangements with their relatives and family physician.

Reference:
Bidaut-Russell M, Dowd DM, Grossberg GT, Zimny GH. Survey of U.S. Alzheimer Brain Banks: a 1990 directory. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 1991 Jan 1;5(3):188-93. Abstract

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Illinois

Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
PO Box 19643
Southern Illinois School of Medicine
Springfield, IL 62794-9230
Phone: (217) 545-8249
Fax: (217) 545-1903
Website: http://www.siumed.edu/cadrd/

Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
Department of Pathology
1653 W. Congress Pkwy.
Chicago, IL 60612-3864
Phone: (312) 942-5000
Website: http://www.rush.edu/

Indiana

Indiana University School of Medicine
Division of Neurology
Emerson Hall, Room 125
545 Barnhill Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: (317) 274-8800
Fax: (317) 274-2384
Website: http://medicine.iu.edu/

Iowa

University of Iowa College of Medicine
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
100 Bowen Science Building
51 Newton Rd.
Iowa City, IO 52242-1109
Phone: (319) 335-6707
Website: http://www.anatomy.uiowa.edu/

Kentucky

Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC)
Sanders-Brown Research Center on Aging
University of Kentucky
101 Sanders-Brown Bldg.
Lexington, KY 40536-0230
Phone: (859) 257-1412
Fax: (859) 323-2866
E-mail: rdavi3@email.uky.edu
Website: http://www.mc.uky.edu/coa/clinicalcore/alzheimercenter.html

Massachusetts

Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center
McLean Hospital
115 Mill St.
Belmont, MA 02178
Phone: (617) 855-2000
Toll-free: (800) 333-0338
E-mail: mcleaninfo@mclean.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.mclean.harvard.edu/research/mrc/brainbank.php

Center for Neurologic Disease
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Harvard Institutes of Medicine
7th Floor
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 525-5596
Fax: (617) 525-5252
Website: http://brain.bwh.harvard.edu/

Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Neuropathology, Warren 321
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 726-2000
Website: http://www.massgeneral.org/

University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department of Neurology
55 Lake Ave. North
Worcester, MA 01655
Phone: (508) 856-8989
Website: http://www.umassmed.edu/index.aspx

Michigan

Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
University of Michigan
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 764-5479
E-mail: lisabain@umich.edu
Website: http://www.med.umich.edu/alzheimers/

Minnesota

Alzheimer's Research Center
Regions Hospital
640 Jackson St.
St. Paul, MN 55101
Phone: (651) 254-2743
Toll-free: (800) 229-2872
Website: http://www.alzheimersinfo.org/

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic
200 First St., S.W.
Rochester, MN 55905
Phone: (507) 284-2511
Fax: (507) 284-0161
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.org/labmed-pathology-rst/

Missouri

S.L.U.M.C./Alzheimer's Association Brain Bank
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry
St. Louis University Medical Center
1221 S. Gran Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63104
Phone: (314) 977-4829

Department of Pathology, Box 8118
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110
Phone: (314) 935-5000
Website: http://medschool.wustl.edu/

Department of Pathology
University of Missouri-Kansas City Neurodegeneration Autopsy Program
Truman Medical Ctr.
2301 Homes St.
Kansas City, MO 64108
Phone: (816) 404-0550

North Carolina

Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank
Room Number 261--Bryan Research Bldg.
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
Phone: (919) 684-6644
E-mail: jfervin@duke.edu
Website: https://adrc.mc.duke.edu/index.php/research/brain-bank

New York

Department of Psychiatry
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, NY 10029-6571
Phone: (212) 659-8838
Fax: (212) 860-3945
Website: http://www.mssm.edu/psychiatry/

University of Rochester Medical Center
Box 673
601 Elmwood Ave.
Rochester, NY 14642
Phone: (585) 275-7181
Website: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/index.cfm

Department of Pathology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
1300 Morris Park Ave.
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 430-2000
Website: http://www.aecom.yu.edu/pathology/

Alzheimer's Disease Research Center/Taub Institute
Columbia University
630 W. 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
Phone: (212) 305-1818
Fax: (212) 342-2849
E-mail: taubinstitute@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/taub/index.html

NYBB/Taub Institute
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, Room T-8
3959 Broadway
New York, NY 10032
Phone: (212) 305-2299
Fax: (212) 342-0083
E-mail: nybb@columbia.edu
Website: http://nybb.hs.columbia.edu/

Department of Pathology
New York University Medical Center
550 First Ave.
NY, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 263-7300
Website: http://www.med.nyu.edu/path/

Ohio

Department of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: (216) 368-3611
Website: http://path-www.path.case.edu/

Division of Neuropathology
Ohio State University College of Medicine
370 West 9th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292-2220
Website: http://medicine.osu.edu/

Department of Pathology
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
231 Albert Sabin Way
Cincinnati, OH 45267
Phone: (513) 558-5575
Website: http://www.med.uc.edu/

Oregon

Division of Neuropathology
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, Oregon 97239-3098
Phone: (503) 494-8311
Website: http://www.ohsu.edu/index.shtml

Pennsylvania

Alpers Neuropathology Laboratory
Department of Neurology
Thomas Jefferson University
900 Walnut Street
Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 955-9425
Website: http://www.jefferson.edu/neurology/

National Disease Research Interchange
8 Penn Center
1628 JFK Boulevard
8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: (800) 222-NDRI
Fax: (215) 557-7154
E-mail: info@ndriresource.org
Website: http://www.ndriresource.org/

Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
200 Lothrop St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582
Phone: (412) 624-2100
Website: http://wpic.upmc.com/

Rhode Island

Brown Brain Tissue Resource Center
Department of Neuropathology
Rhode Island Hospital—APC 12
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
Phone: (401)444-5057
Website: http://med.brown.edu/neurology/adunit2

South Carolina

Medical University of South Carolina
Center on Aging
19 Hagood Avenue, Suite 806
Charleston, SC 29425
Phone: (843)792-0712
Website: http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/aging/research/Brain%20Bank/Homepage.htm

Tennessee

University of Tennessee Medical Center
1924 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone: (865) 544-9000
Website: http://www.utmedicalcenter.org/

Texas

Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79902
Phone: (915) 747-5551
Fax: (915) 747-6553
Website: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=academics.utep.edu/psychology

Department of Pathology
Baylor College of Medicine-BCM 315
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: (713) 798-4661
Toll-free: (866) 339-4661
Fax: (713) 798-5838
Website: http://www.bcm.edu/pathology/

Department of Pathology
Neuropathology Laboratory
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390
Phone: (214) 648-2148
Fax: (214) 648-2077
Website: http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/

GIA Brain Bank Program
TTUHSC Garrison Institute on Aging
Brain Bank Program
3601 4th Street STOP 9424
Lubbock, TX 79430-9224
Phone: (806) 743-7821
Fax: (806) 743-7816
E-mail: annette.boles@ttuhsc.edu
Website: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/centers/aging/giabrainbank.aspx

Washington

Dept. Pathology, SM-30
University of Washington
2707 N.E. Blakely St., GG-19
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-1140

Wisconsin

UW/VA Brain Bank
UW/VA Brain Bank Manager
2500 Overlook Terrace-D4211
Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-256-1901 ext. 11767
Fax: 608-280-7130
E-mail: brainbank@medicine.wisc.edu
Website: http://www.wcmp.wisc.edu/brainbank

Milwaukee VA Medical Center
Clement J. Zablocki V.A. Medical Center
5000 W. National Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53295
Phone: (414) 384-2000
Toll-free: (888) 469-6614
Website: http://www.visn12.med.va.gov/Milwaukee/