Ed note: I was contacted by the UW researchers who asked me to post this information.
Participants will be paid for the visits and travel costs will be covered.
If you are interested in learning more about the Brain Map Study, please call 206.744.5079 or email us at brainmap@uw.edu.
We still do not fully understand how the human brain works. Much of how our brains function and how the parts are organized remains a mystery. Brains are very different from person to person and that makes studying them even harder. Finding new treatments for brain disorders has been very slow because the brain is so complicated. To fully understand how they work, we need your help.
Our study will address these challenges by creating a new human brain map that will help scientists understand the different types and functions of each of our 200 billion brain cells.
Our goal in making this new map is to speed up the search for treatments for all kinds of brain disease and injury, and to relieve the suffering they cause.
We will begin by looking at how human brains work by asking people to do a special brain scan called Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)*. We will also be asking them to donate their brains for research after they die. This will allow us to compare the information from the MRI scan to the donated brain. (continued)