Donate your brain, Sister Jerome urges at Statehouse event

COLUMBUS

Sister Jerome Corcoran wants your brain.

Or, more accurately, the “Little Nun Who Gets Things Done” wants you to donate your gray matter (after you die) to the researchers and scientists trying to better understand and find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

The Youngstown-area nun already has filled out the paperwork to donate her brain after she dies.

“I know that wherever I am and whatever I’m doing, my little brain is going to be working,” Sister Jerome said. “All of us know the sad condition of disease among middle-aged or elderly that Alzheimer’s has caused. All of us and our families have been affected by these symptoms that really tear people apart and tear families all apart. ... What Alzheimer’s needs now more than anything else is extensive research – the causes the factors, the futures, the medication.”

The nun, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, offered the comments today at the Statehouse, where she was among 10 Ohioans inducted in the state’s Senior Citizens Hall of Fame.

Read more about her and her cause in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.