Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
- In pictures
When civilisation made people sick
Sickness from nervous exhaustion is not a new thing. Over a hundred years ago, neurasthenia afflicted society’s ‘brain-workers’.
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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- Archives and manuscripts
"The Life of Aelius Aristides a Greek 'neurotic' - for comparison with the infirmities of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Ellis Barker etc"
Date: 1946Reference: PP/FPW/B.226/4/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
- Books
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Remarks on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the brain : delivered at a meeting of the Worcestershire and Herefordshire, Bath and Bristol, and Gloucestershire branches / by J. Hughlings Jackson.
Jackson, John Hughlings, 1834-1911.Date: [1888]- Videos
Human brain : pathology - some examples.
Date: 1997- Archives and manuscripts
Editor of Brain
Date: Nov 1934 - Dec 1934Reference: PENROSE/2/18/4/1Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
What did they die of? No. 3, Brain disease / John R. Guy.
Guy, John R.Date: 1992