Brains on Parade
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Brains on Parade


Viewers of C-SPAN's BookTV were treated this weekend to a re-airing of a Brian Lamb interview from 2000 with Michael Paterniti, the author of the book Driving Mr. Albert, about his cross-country adventure with the doctor who retained portions of Albert Einstein's brain and with a Tupperware container of said portions.

Tomorrow's New York Times has an article about Cornell University's Wilder Brain Collection:

In Search of Answers From the Great Brains of Cornell
By PETER EDIDIN
The New York Times
Published: May 24, 2005

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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain




- Dr. Sandra Witelson In The News!
From today's New York Times: A Hands-On Approach to Studying the Brain, Even Einstein’s By SIOBHAN ROBERTS Published: November 14, 2006 HAMILTON, Ontario — Standing in her vaultlike walk-in refrigerator, Sandra F. Witelson pries open a white...

- Predicting Alzheimer Disease: More Wish Than Reality
A core contemporary issue in the clinical neurology and neuropsychology of aging and dementia is discussed in an article in tomorrow's New York Times: Predicting Alzheimer's Is More Wish Than Reality By LAURIE TARKAN The New York Times Published:...

- Better Than Enron: The Enteric Nervous System
From tomorrow's New York Times:The Other Brain Also Deals With Many Woes By HARRIET BROWN The New York Times Published: August 23, 2005 Two brains are better than one. At least that is the rationale for the close - sometimes too close - relationship...

- Dr. Heidelise Als And The Nicu
From tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine: A Second Womb By PAUL RAEBURN The New York Times Published: August 14, 2005 Read the article. Dr. Heidelise Als, prematurity, and the contemporary neonatal ICU. - Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience |...

- Dr. Michael Gazzaniga On C-span's Booktv
A mid-June interview of Dr. Michael Gazzaniga by novelist Tom Wolfe is airing this weekend on C-SPAN's BookTV. Topics include neuroethics and Gazzaniga's newest book, The Ethical Brain. The interview was held at the New York Academy of Sciences....



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