Khan, Ayesha
Zahid, Saadia
Hasan, Beena
Asif, Abdul R
Ahmed, Nikhat https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6345-6740
Funding for this research was provided by:
Higher Education Commision, Pakistan (Grant no. 20-560/ R&D/07)
Article History
Received: 5 January 2023
Accepted: 4 April 2023
First Online: 19 April 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study has been performed in line with the permission of Ethical Review Board of University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
: Autopsied Brain samples of control and schizophrenia patients were obtained from Medical Research Council (MRC) Sudden Death Brain and Tissue Bank (SDBTB), Department of Neuropathology, The University of Edinburgh, U.K. The Edinburgh SDBTB provides an alternative model for brain donations postmortem and appropriate consent from next of kin of the deceased individual was taken after a sudden death.