How We Study the Brain
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You obviously don’t keep a count, In my
career I’ve looked at over 20,000 brains.
The specimen comes in and it’s examined
with care, it’s photographed, it’s measured,
it’s dissected so that various portions
of the brain can be looked at and then actual
pieces are prepared so that we can look at
them under the microscope with a whole variety
of different types of staining procedures
so that we can look at specific proteins and
cell types.
It’s a complicated and expensive operation.
But at the end of the day one can really detail
the nature of abnormalities present within
that brain and can compare it to individuals
who have not been, in this example, exposed
to military battlefield conditions to try
to figure out exactly what’s happening.