Century-old brains may hold future of treatment for mentally ill, pathologist says
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
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.