Century-old brains may hold future of treatment for mentally ill, pathologist says
Visitors to the Indiana Medical History Museum in Indianapolis may find the 19th-century brains on display a strange reminder of the building's past as an insane asylum, but a recent breakthrough using these samples by a pathologist from the Indiana University School of Medicine could spell the future of detecting mental illness....
Source: PhysOrg - Tuesday, 6 December
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