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A formalin-fixed human brain.
Bengaluru, India

Neuropathology Brain Museum

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.
A formalin fixed human brain, ready to be handed to visitors.
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Visitors Can Touch Human Brains at This Indian Neuroscience Institute

It's like a petting zoo for organs.
Maya Prabhu September 21, 2018
<em>Starry Night</em>, Staff Pick 2017. This image shows hippocampal neurons after two days in culture.
brain collections

When Neuroscientists Become Artists

Beauty and brains.
Anika Burgess August 9, 2017
One of the preserved brains found in the grave.
brain collections

Found: Dozens of Naturally Shrunken Brains in a Mass Grave

There are very few examples of naturally preserved brains.
Sarah Laskow July 17, 2017
brain collections

The Inept Story Behind 100 Missing Brains at the University of Texas

Were they ever missing at all?
JPat Brown October 26, 2016
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The Neurologists Who Fought Alzheimer's By Studying Nuns' Brains

The 30-year partnership between convents and brain researchers has been unexpectedly rewarding.
Natalie Zarrelli March 24, 2016
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Meet the Brain Banker Who Keeps Thousands of Brains In His Lab In the Bronx

Natalie Zarrelli February 1, 2016
zombies

How 19th-Century Zombie Dogs Revealed the Workings of the Brain

Sarah Laskow October 27, 2015
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FOUND: 9 Mysterious, Well-Preserved Brains

Sarah Laskow May 26, 2015
insane asylums

A Lost Collection of Abnormal Brains Finally Gets a History

Allison Meier December 2, 2014
medical museums

The Fates of Famous Brains

Bess Lovejoy May 20, 2014
Silver Spring, Maryland

Mammalian Brain Collection

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.
brain collections

Curious Fact of the Week: Biggest Brain Collections

Allison Meier May 20, 2013
Permanently Closed
Austin, Texas

Brain Collection at the University of Texas at Austin

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.
Lima, Peru

Brain Museum

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.
Cushing Brain Collection
New Haven, Connecticut

Cushing Brain Collection

A historic collection of abnormal brains in a new, custom-built home.
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
medical museums

Halloween Day 12: Pickled Zombie Snacks

Annetta Black October 12, 2011
Brain of Helen Hamilton Gardener
Ithaca, New York

Wilder Brain Collection

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.