They told us Dad's brain arrived at Boston University in a matter of hours after he died.
That surprised me. Not that it happened--Mother had signed the papers months before--but that it happened so quickly. It was the beginning of an impressive process with a surprising report waiting at the end.
I credit my mother with the decision to donate my dad's brain to the Boston University CTE Center led by Dr. Ann McKee. If you have seen any of the documentaries on concussions and football, particularly the PBS Frontline presentation League of Denial, you know she is the world's leading research expert on CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy).