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• Spinal Cord Injury Projects
• Traumatic Brain Injury Projects
  • Assessment & Intervention for Mild TBI
  • Can Eye Movements Predict Persistent Problems in Paediatric Mild TBI?
  • Cognitive and Neural Substrates of Socially Maladaptive Behaviours in Adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury
  • DECRA Trial (DECompressive CRAniectomy Trial)
  • Enhancing Neurogenesis Post -TBI
  • Fluid Resuscitation in TBI
  • Headstart: Multi-family Groups for Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Hypothermia in Childhood TBI (HiTBIC)
  • Improving the functional communication ability of adults with TBI
  • Long term consequences of childhood head injury - 15 year follow-up
  • Longitudinal Hippocampal Study
  • Measuring the Impact of TBI on People's Lives
  • Mobility Following Childhood TBI
  • New Treatments for Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Neural Basis of Communication Disorder in Children
  • Neurotrauma Tissue/Fluid Bank
  • Normoglycaemia in Intensive Care Traumatic Brain Injury Study (NICE-TBI)
  • Preventing Neuronal Cell Death Following Brain Trauma
  • Prevention and Treatment of Social Problems Following TBI
  • Rehabilitation of Attention Following TBI
  • Role of Tissue Type Plasminogen Activator
  • TBI in Older Adults
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Treatment in Depression After Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Traumatic Hypoxia and Cerebral Inflammation
  • Virtual Reality and Upper Limb Function Following TBI in Children
• Targeted Initiatives
• Completed TBI and SCI Projects
• Program Grants

Neurotrauma Tissue/Fluid Bank

Establishment of a Neurotrauma Tissue/Fluid Bank within the National Neural Tissue Resource Centre (NNTRC)

Chief Investigator: Professor Catriona McLean
Associate Investigators: Associate Professor Cristina Morganti-Kossmann, Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Professor Thomas Kossmann
Lead Organisation: Bayside Health
VNI Funding: $811,148
Project Start Date: 01-Aug-07

Project Summary:
A Neurotrauma Tissue Bank (NTB) initiative would be a unique Australian resource that will both underpin and enhance the VNI funded research efforts in Australia. Currently, no such neurotrauma brain bank exists in Australia. As a consequence, Australian researchers are unable to utilize human neurotrauma tissue linked to clinical and pathological data, potentially undermining the current worth of neurotrauma research. Purchase of tissue from overseas sources is prohibitively expensive ($1000/gm of tissue) and this deters project design from incorporating human tissues. The availability of this resource (high quality human post-mortem CNS tissue) will assist both scientists and clinicians to focus their research on this area of national need. More importantly, new technologies based on high-throughput screening techniques mean that many questions that could not have even been contemplated a decade ago can be addressed using appropriately stored human brain tissue.