Scientists want to find out what factors cause these neurodegenerative or neuromuscular diseases.
This examination of body material is important for making a precise diagnosis and helps to improve our understanding of what exactly is going wrong in the brain, muscles, spinal cord, etc., in people suffering from these neurological disorders.
In the majority of cases, the cause of the onset of a neurodegenerative or neuromuscular disease is not entirely known and a combination of genetic and environmental factors is suspected. By examining body material, we can study these factors in a more targeted manner.
The systematic controlled storage of body material/data offers exactly these opportunities, to allow for the broadest possible future neuroscientific research.
The neurologists at the university hospitals of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels are actively supporting this scientific research from their respective Neurology departments, in cooperation with the general hospitals. These university hospitals offer the possibility to collect body material. In some cases, this can help in determining a diagnosis. Above all, pending further research, your body material/data will be stored confidentially in the IBB-NeuroBiobank.