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Brain

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

Found: Vessels That Let Your Immune System Control Your Personality

The brain and lymph system are connected after all.

Sarah Laskow July 19, 2016

I Asked Leading Entomologists: 'What’s The Smartest Bug In The World?'

Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even invent languages.

Dan Nosowitz June 23, 2016

Convolution

Map Your Murderousness With These 19th-Century Brain Charts

The mysterious Alesha Sivartha had a formidable collection of phrenology maps.

Lauren Young May 9, 2016

New Haven, Connecticut

The Cushing Center

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

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.