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Neuropathology Core

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Goals & Activities

  1. Collect, store, and distribute unique and high-quality postmortem CSF, brain, and eye tissue.
  2. Provide neuropathology diagnosis for ADRC participants.
  3. Provide neuropathology consultation and diagnostic training for Alzheimer’s disease researchers.
This photo demonstrates the difference between a regular, healthy brain (right brain) and a brain that has suffered cognitive disease (left brain).
Two brain specimens from the Duke Bryan Brain Bank. Case 117 is a healthy, cognitively normal brain. Case 224 suffered from severe cognitive decline like Alzheimer’s Disease.

Core Members

Shih-Hsiu “Jerry” Wang, M.D, Ph.D.

Core Leader

Duke University

Yang Liu, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology

Duke University

Erin Connolly

Research Technician II

Duke University

Collaborator

Juan Troncoso, MD

Director, Brain Resource Center

Todd Cohen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor – Neuroscience Research

UNC-Chapel Hill
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