The scientist Javier Herrero, a member of the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León (Incyl), today highlighted the importance of donating the brain to be able to move forward against neurodegenerative diseases, which by the middle of this century will cause more deaths than cancer.

In an interview with Efe, this researcher from the University of Salamanca has highlighted the importance of donating the brain to consider that the pathologies of the nervous system in humans are "unique."
Hence, scientists can not simplify in experimental models an Alzheimer's type, which could be done by alternating a gene in a mouse, since this dementia is "much more complicated." More information.