![]() Working with experts from other disciplines, she extensively documented brain slices with a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. She has now correctly identified the two brains, both of which are archived in a collection at the University Medical Center Göttingen. This is the surprising conclusion reached by Renate Schweizer, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. The switch probably happened soon after the death of both men in 1855. Purely coincidentally - unless everything under the stars is predetermined, which might as well be the case - just three days ago, it was proven beyond doubt that for the last 150 years the jar, containing preserved specimens of the brains of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, was mislabeled and instead housed the brain of Göttingen physician Conrad Heinrich Fuchs. Speaking of Carl_Friedrich_Gaussand the content of his cranium… The Case of Switched Brains … We also hope that our identifications will be useful for workers interested in comparing Einstein’s brain with preserved brains from other gifted individuals, such as the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) … The team of researchers behind the study of Einstein’d brain caution against any hasty conclusions too: ”We hope that future research on comparative primate neuroanatomy, paleoneurology and functional neuroanatomy will provide insight about some of the unusually convoluted parts of Einstein’s brain that we have described with little, if any, interpretation.” His phenomenal, “inhuman” memory capacity that defies explanation might be a result of the neurons in his brain making unusual connections due to the very absence of corpus callosum. He suffered from agenesis of the corpus callosum, a condition in which the bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain is missing. Kim Peek had none of what Einstein had in more sense than one. We don’t want to come out and say directly that this Einstein callosum business is complete and utter nonsense, but instead want to offer some suggestions as to what it is that this feature may or may not be doing for humans. However, as those that read the journal Neuroimage already know, the remarkable mind of the king of the megasavants - the “Rain Man” Kim Peek - held forth with a complete absence of this connection. Some researchers would have us believe that the reason for Albert Einstein’s remarkable genius was his ample endowment of corpus callosum - the large fiber tract that, at least in most of us, connects the two halves of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Mapping Einstein’s Brain in ExtremeTech has this to say: Great! Now we know! That’s what he got that the rest of us - give and take a few - didn’t. Many other publications hailed the finding as a remarkable break in the “search for the genius brain”. The Secret To Einstein’s Genius? Brain Study Notes Unusually Well-Connected Hemispheres, the article in the SingularityHUB, re-tells a bizarre story of the Einstein’s brain post-mortem journey from his cranium to the 2 jars filled with formalin. Einstein’s developed somatosensory cortex may have been due to his violin playing.” The study was published in 2012 by Dean Falk and the team of researchers in Brain magazine. ![]() There were “other peculiarities in Einstein’s brain, including an extraordinary prefrontal cortex, unusual parietal lobes, and extended somatosensory and visual cortices. The prefrontal cortex is related to abstract thought and the parietal lobes to visualization and mathematical abilities. This implies more nerves and, therefore, greater connectivity between the hemispheres of the brain. The corpus callosum of Einstein’s brain appears to be thicker than in a group of more than 50 men of similar age. Studies were immediately conducted and several important observations were published: And what’s the easiest way to do this but to develop their brains? And what’s the easiest way to go about it but to figure out how the genius brain is different from the rest of them ordinary brains? And what’s the easiest way to do so but to examine Einstein’s brain and figure it out?Īs recently as in 2012, a set of 14 photographs of Einstein’s brain taken just after his autopsy in April 1955 was discovered. We want our baby-Einsteins to become grown-up Einsteins. ![]() These days, even babies know his name, thanks to Baby Einstein line of infant products. It is hard not to treat Albert Einstein’s brain with the deference it deserves.
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