News
On this page the NBB occasionally reports about news, and publications that have resulted from research using tissue supplied by the NBB. Please note that not all publications using NBB tissue are listed here. A full publication list can be found here, or in our progress reports. Would you like your publication to be featured here? Please email eNBB@nin.knaw.nl.
Largest MS brain cohort reveals biological differences
6 july 2026Why does multiple sclerosis progress quickly in some people, while others remain stable for years? Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for N...
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Foamy microglia link oxylipins to disease progression in multiple sclerosis
15 june 2026In multiple sclerosis, immune activity in the brain and spinal cord can damage the protective layer around nerve fibres (myelin). In progressive MS...
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Join our Summer School!
16 april 2026Summer School: "Insight in the Human Brain" 17-19 June 2026
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Workflow for isolating viable human central nervous system immune cells in STAR Protocols
31 march 2026We are pleased to announce that our detailed protocol enabling the isolation of viable immune cells from rapid post‑mortem, autopsy‑acquired human brain tissue is now available in STAR Protocols.
Read moreQueen Máxima at the fortieth anniversary of the Netherlands Brain Bank
18 october 2025Koningin Máxima visited the Netherlands Brain Bank for its 40th anniversary, raising awareness for the psychiatric donor program.
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New biomarker and therapeutic target identified for MS
19 june 2025Researchers have discovered a new type of scar tissue in the brains of people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This finding may help guide more targe...
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AI language model provides new insights into the development of brain diseases
14 march 2024A new AI language model identifies clinical symptoms in medical summaries and links them to brain tissue from donors of the Netherlands Brain Bank....
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Newsletter NBB-Psy
22 august 2022We are pleased to inform you about the results of the Netherlands Brain Bank for Psychiatry (NBB-Psy), a brain donor and autopsy program launched w...
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NBB director Inge Huitinga appointed professor at the University of Amsterdam
1 april 2019Per April 1st, Inge Huitinga has been appointed professor of "Neuroimmunology, in particular the pathology of Multiple Sclerosis" at the Swammerdam...
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Handbook of Clinical Neurology Volume 150: Brain Banking
19 october 2018Edited by Ingeborg Huitinga. Director of the Netherlands Brain Bank, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, The Netherlands and M...
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Neuropathology and cognitive performance in self-reported cognitively healthy centenarians
7 august 2018The centenarians in the 100-Plus cohort escaped or delayed cognitive impairment until extreme ages, their brains reveal varying levels of age- and disease-associated neuropathological hallmarks, some of whic...
Read moreMS lesions are still very active in late stages of the disease
8 march 2018Lesions in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) are much more active during the late stages of the disease than was previously thought.
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