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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on Brain Diseases, (etc.)
Date: 1903, 1904Reference: MS.920Part of: Aldrich-Blake, Louisa Brandreth (1865-1925)- Books
Brain's Diseases of the nervous system.
Brain, W. Russell Brain (Walter Russell Brain), Baron, 1895-1966.Date: 1969- Books
Brain's Diseases of the nervous system.
Brain, W. Russell Brain (Walter Russell Brain), Baron, 1895-1966.Date: [1977], ©1977- Books
Diseases of the nervous system / Lord Brain.
Brain, W. Russell Brain (Walter Russell Brain), Baron, 1895-1966.Date: 1962- Books
Diseases of the nervous system / by W. Russell Brain.
Brain, W. Russell Brain (Walter Russell Brain), Baron, 1895-1966.Date: 1947