E-Paper
The mind as matter
1 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
Two slices of Albert Einstein's brain are seen at an exhibition call 'Brains -The Mind as Matter at the Wellcome Collection in London. The brain matter was prepared by Dr Thomas Harvey who was working at the hospital where Einstein died in 1955. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
2 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
A Wellcome Trust employee stands in front of a video that journeys through slices of the brain in a kaleidoscope of colour at an exhibition call 'Brains - The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
3 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
Wellcome Trust employee Zoe Middleton poses for the media by a work entitled My Soul by artist Katherine Dawson, that is a laser etched in lead crystal glass of the artist's own MRI scan, at an exhibition call Brains -The Mind as Matter at the Wellcome Collection in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
4 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
A selection of brain specimens preserved in acrylic illustrating different pathologies on loan from the Mutter Museum -The College of Physicians of Philadelphia are seen on display at an exhibition call Brains -The Mind as Matter at the Wellcome Collection in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
5 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
A Bronze Age skull from Jericho in the West Bank that shows four holes made by the ancient surgical process of trephination carried out to treat a range of medical conditions, some of which were believed to have been caused by evil spirits, is on display at the exhibition 'Brains -The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
6 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
Models on display demonstrate the differents stages of human fetal brain development produced by the model-making studio of Adolf Ziegler (1820-1889) during a preview of the Wellcome Collection's major new exhibition Brains: mind of matter in London. AFP/Miguel Medina
7 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
A picture shows thin slices of Albert Einstein's brain prepared by Marthe Keller in 1955 on display during a preview of the Wellcome Collection's major new exhibition "Brains: mind of matter" in London. AFP/Miguel Medina
8 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
A woman looks at a work by artist, Katharine Dawson, called The Soul which is a a laser-etched 3D representaion of her own brain inside a glass block at a preview of a new exhbition Brains at the Wellcome Collection in London. AFP/Miguel Medina
9 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
A French Phrenological model, from the mid 19th century, of a head with brain exposed is seen on display at an exhibition call Brains - The Mind as Matter at the Wellcome Collection in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
10 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST
A woman looks at a functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) showing the effect of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Kant's 3rd Critique on the human brain during the Wellcome Collection's major new exhibition Brains: mind of matter in London. AFP/Miguel Medina
11 / 11
View Photos in a new improved layout
Updated on Mar 27, 2012 09:12 pm IST