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- i Initial research is disputed
- ii Research findings from the initial allocation of material taken from Einstein鈥檚 brain
- iii A researcher identifies issues arising from a comprehensive study of Einstein鈥檚 brain
- iv Similarities in brains is common within families
- v Material collected from Einstein鈥檚 brain is prepared and distributed
- vi Einstein鈥檚 brilliance was partly a result of self-development
- vii The limits to which brain training can affect brain function
- viii Researchers obtain access to previously unreleased material
- ix Making comparisons with existing brain analyses
- x Outstanding scientific achievements arouse interest in Einstein鈥檚 brain
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1. Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist and Nobel prize winner who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. Many researchers have assumed it took a special brain to come up with the theory of relativity and other stunning insights.
2. Harvey photographed the brain and then cut it into 240 blocks, which were embedded in a substance that resembled resin. He cut the blocks into as many as 2000 thin sections for microscopic study, and in subsequent years microscopic slides and photographs of the brain were made available to at least 18 researchers around the world.
3. Harvey noticed immediately that Einstein had no parietal operculum (part of the 鈥榣id鈥?of the brain) in either hemisphere. Some of these studies did find interesting features in Einstein鈥檚 brain, including a greater density of neurons in some parts and a higher than usual ratio of glia to neurons.
4. In 2010, Harvey鈥檚 heirs agreed to transfer all of his specimens to the US Army鈥檚 National Museum of Health and Medicine in Maryland. Falk and his team worked with Adrianne Noe, director of the museum, to analyse 14 photographs of the whole brain that had never before been made public.
5. Falk鈥檚 team analysed Einstein鈥檚 brain, and then set the data against studies of 85 other humans already described in the scientific literature.
6. Albert Galaburda believes that the study raises very important questions which currently have no answer. Einstein鈥檚 genius was probably due to some combination of a special brain and the environment he lived in, although research has not provided definitive evidence of this.
7. 鈥楨instein programmed his own brain,鈥橣alk says, adding that when the field of physics was ripe for new insights, 鈥榟e had the right brain in the right place at the right time.鈥?/div>
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