I slice up human brains for a living

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3092, 2016, págs. 46-49
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Hamzelou details his visit to the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, where Jorge Tejada is assistant director of operations. Known informally as the brain bank, it houses the world's largest collection of human brains, Tejada, a pathologist, has worked here for 15 years. He is going to talk him through what happens when a fresh brain arrives at the facility. The institution traces its history back to 1818, when Massachusetts General Hospital opened its Asylum lot the Insane on a wooded hillside lust outside Boston. In 1895, with the city encroaching, the asylum moved to its present location in Belmont