QSBB specialises in parkinsonian movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy and holds the national collection of brains donated by individuals with progressive supranuclear palsy. The collection has been developed to include donated brains from prospectively studied people with familial dementias, in collaboration with the Dementia Research Centre at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. The QSBB also banks brains donated by people with dystonia.
About Queen Square Brain Bank
The Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders (QSBB) holds a unique archive of brains and tissue donated by individuals with neurodegenerative disease and neurologically normal controls.
Joining the Queen Square Brain Bank Donor Scheme
Information about joining the tissue donor scheme.
Request for tissue
The QSBB holds a large archive of brain tissue, sufficient to support statistically valid case-control studies.
QSBB Digital Pathology Resource
Queen Square Brain Bank Digital Pathology Resource contains digital whole slide images from Lewy body disorders.