Brain banks are expensive to maintain, and understanding the actual costs is imperative to gaining long-term funding. Our recent audit of cost suggests this is AU$ 20,000 per brain collected, a figure comparable with that previously published (Hulette, 2003). Cost recovery for access is implemented by the NSWBB using the Australian Brain Bank Network Access Policy (http://www.austbrainbank.org.au/researchers.html). A recent study by Albert et al. has shown that full cost recovery is not feasible and the expected revenue is between 5–25%, albeit toward the lower estimate if only academic research is supported (Albert, Bartlett, Johnston, Schacter, & Watson, 2014).
