Factors influencing decisions about donation of the brain for research purposes

Age and Ageing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 623-629

  Stevens, Margaret ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Autopsy; Brain donation for research; Education; Fears about death

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOPSY; AWARENESS; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESEARCH;

EID: 0031782794     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.5.623     Document Type: Article

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