Banking the brain. Addressing the ethical challenges of a mental-health biobank

EMBO Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 400-404

  Amarasinghe, Myanthi ^a,b   Tan, Hannah ^a,b   Larkin, Samantha ^a,c   Ruggeri, Barbara ^a   Lobo, Sarah ^a,b   Brittain, Philip ^a   Broadbent, Matthew ^b   Baggaley, Martin ^b   Schumann, Gunter ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; CONFIDENTIALITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TISSUE BANKS;

EID: 84877583566     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2013.46     Document Type: Article

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