Meet the brain donors
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Twelve elderly people - all of whom have chosen to give their brains to neuroscience upon their deaths - have agreed to waive their right to donor anonymity for a new exhibition that combines art and science.
The participants - five of whom have already died - want to increase understanding about dementia, and had already agreed to allow their brains to be studied for physical signs of the disease, even though they might not, while alive, have outward symptoms.
Mind Over Matter, which opens in London this week, looks at the donors' past lives and tries to demystify what happens in brain bank laboratories. It was put together by artist Ania Dabrowska and Dr Bronwyn Parry from Queen Mary, University of London.
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