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June 22, 2005
" No one, however, had scrutinized as many brains as Witelson."
Examining tissue samples through a microscope, she discovered that the more left-handed a person was, the bigger the corpus callosum.
To her surprise, however, she found that this held true only for men. Among women there was no difference between right-handers and left-handers.
"Once you find this one difference," she remembered thinking, "it implies that there will be a cascade of differences."
As she systematically analyzed the brains in her refrigerator, she discovered that other neural structures seemed larger or smaller among men, depending on whether the man had been right-handed or left-handed.
And it all started with Albert Einstein's brain. A crazy, long, and interesting talk on human brains and how male ones differ from female ones. You will not leave that article without going, 'huh,' at least once.
Scientists get to have all the fun with chilled brains.
(via b55seddel)
Posted by Groonk at June 22, 2005 06:43 PM | Ministry of Science
