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A brain preservation is the attempt to preserve a human or non-human animal with the hope that partial or complete resuscitation may be possible in the future.
{{W|cryonicsCryonics}} is the most popular method of brain preservation, and preserves individuals using low-temperature. But other methods are being used and developed as well, notably [http://www.oregoncryo.com/manual/chemicalFixation.html fixation], and a combination of both called [http://www.brainpreservation.org/21cm-aldehyde-stabilized-cryopreservation-eval-page/ aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation].
Alternative names for brain preservation include biostasis and neural archiving.