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What happens to the brains of an audience while they are experiencing a performance on stage? What if the actors could delicately weave new patterns in the brains of their audience to make them feel and remember the emotions that the characters in a play wish to convey? In fact, this is very likely what happens during a theater performance; and if the play is about a brain, then the effect is even more dramatic.

A companion e-book for neuroscientists, radiologists, teachers, students and brain lovers.

We have previously acquired high-resolution MRI scans of the brain, and the cutting procedure will hopefully result in a complete series of giant histological sections that will be treated to view and measure cellular-level features in the whole brain. This work is conducted in collaboration with Dr. Sam Ridgway of the National Marine Mammal Foundation.

Bette F. has willed her brain to research at UCSD's Brain Observatory. She is 92 and she is part of a fortunate group of participants who embody the concept of successful aging. But she is much more than that.

The Digital Brain Library Project is an unprecedented effort to compare what has been learned about human behavior and disease with the actual organ, the brain.

Postmortem MR imaging has revealed widespread deep White Matter pathology localized primarily in the frontal lobes. Histopathological staining will elucidate the nature of the abnormal WM signal revealed by MRI sequences; however, for the time being (in Phase 1), our main concern is histotechnical.

Once the collection of tissue slices from the brain of patient H.M. was safely archived cryo-genically, the work towards reconstructing a neurological picture of the case began.