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Paxman joins brain donor list
Evening Standard20 Apr 2009
CELEBRITIES including Jeremy Paxman and Jane Asher have pledged to donate their brains after death to help find a cure for Parkinson's disease.
About 1,000 people have already joined a donor register run by the Parkinson's Disease Society but the charity hopes to double this number by the end of the year.
About one in 500 people is affected by the condition. Those with it are encouraged to donate but experts also need brains from healthy people so they can compare findings. The society runs a brain bank at Hammersmith Hospital.
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Is it possible that the donation has already been made?
- Bloke, London, 20/04/2009 15:28
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What is the point of donating a void Paxman?!
- Frank, Home Counties, England., 20/04/2009 11:20
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