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Abbiategrasso Brain Bank Protocol for Collecting, Processing and Characterizing Aging Brains
Published on: June 3, 2020
Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research
Gagan S Wig1, Sarah Klausner2, Micaela Y Chan2
1Center for Vital Longevity, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75235, USA; Department of Psychology, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75080, USA; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Abstract:
An absence of population-representative participant samples has limited research in healthy brain aging. We highlight examples of what can be gained by enrolling more diverse participant cohorts, and propose recommendations for specific reforms, both in terms of how researchers accomplish this goal and how institutions support and benchmark these efforts.

