Facility Details

Based at the Douglas Research Centre, the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank (DBCBB) houses a large collection of brains from people with diverse psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder and substance use disorders, as well as brains from individuals with various neurological and developmental disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s disease and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In addition, the DBCBB manages a large relational database containing demographic, clinical and developmental histories from donors.