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Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Inside the brain / Wellcome Trust.

A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.

A human head dissected: "In memoriam". Acrylic painting by R. Ennis, 2001.

Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.

Atlas of head sections : fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head and fifty-three key plates with descriptive texts / by William Macewen.

Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.

Das menschliche Gehirn nach seinem Aufbau und seinen wesentlichen Leistungen / gemeinverständlich dargestellt.

Note on the preservation of encephala by the zinc chloride / by Professor Rolleston.

An animal model of altered synaptic plasticity : role of PKC-dependent processes / door Monica Di Luca.

The central nervous system: two microscopic images of nerves (?). Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1895.

Leçons sur le cerveau : (cours d'anatomie comparée du Muséum) encéphale envisagé dans son ensemble télencéphale / par R. Anthony.

Neuro retreat : a small sample of brain research conducted at Berkeley.

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Note on the preservation of encephala by the zinc chloride / by Professor Rolleston.

An animal model of altered synaptic plasticity : role of PKC-dependent processes / door Monica Di Luca.

The central nervous system: two microscopic images of nerves (?). Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1895.

Leçons sur le cerveau : (cours d'anatomie comparée du Muséum) encéphale envisagé dans son ensemble télencéphale / par R. Anthony.

Neuro retreat : a small sample of brain research conducted at Berkeley.