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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

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The shape of thought

Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.

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Do you see what I see?

Is reality actually what you see, or just an elaborate illusion?

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Are people born violent?

Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.

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  • Essay on the anatomy of the brain.
  • Anatomy: section of the brain. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Anatomy of a brain, upper side. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • The anatomy of the brain, explained in a series of engravings / By Charles Bell.
  • The anatomy of the brain, explained in a series of engravings / By Charles Bell.
  • The anatomy of the brain, explained in a series of engravings / By Charles Bell.
  • Anatomy: section of the brain showing fissures on the left cerebral hemisphere. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Anatomy: a head with part of the skull removed showing the gyri of the brain. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Anatomy: seventeen figures, including dissections illustrating the blood-vessels, brain and viscera. Line engraving by H. Winkles under the direction of J.G. Heck, 1830/1845.
  • The morbid anatomy of the human brain. Illustrated by coloured engravings of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject / [Robert Hooper].
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