Using CNS Autopsy Tissue in Psychiatric Research: A Practical Guide

This manual presents a wide variety of techniques associated with the use of human CNS tissue obtained at autopsy. The book contains detailed methodologies in discrete chapters written by an expert in the specific field. In addition, it addresses the potential for interactions between molecular studies in brain tissue obtained at autopsy and living brain by using neuroimaging techniques, and directs to reader to suppliers of equipment and reagents that have been shown to be useful when studying human brain tissue.;Topics include problems of collecting brain tissue at autopsy, how psychiatric diagnosis can be made after death and specific problems faced in using human brain tissue in modern laboratory-based techniques.;Suitable for all those using human tissue in their research, this manual is of particular value to those commencing studies using brain tissue. those involved in the study of brain tissue in an attempts to understand molecular and cellular changes that underlie psychiatric illnesses will find it invaluable.