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Would you donate your brain to science?
Thanks to the donation of human brains to science there is an increasing understanding of conditions like dementia pointing the way to possible cures.
But the research requires a constant supply of brains for researchers to work on.
The Medical Research Council allowed the 91Èȱ¬ to film some of the work being done at the Bristol Brain Bank.
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