The Riddle of Einstein's Brain

Tasneem Rawashdeh

22/Oct/2012

A weird story about the journey of Einstein’s brain

Albert Einstein was one of the greatest journeys of mind in history of the world, which ended in 1955

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A weird story about the journey of Einstein’s brain

After hours of Eintsein’s death, his mind disappeared.A mysterious case about the man who was accused of stealing Einstein's brain..

Did he have a unique brain?

Two scientists decided to solve the mystery of Einstein’s genius.

Did his brain solve the mystery?

Does the intelligence lie in

the adipose tissues which

weigh 1.25 kilograms or

is there a mental mystery

that can never be identified

and gained?

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The brain was conducted in by pathologist Thomas

Stoltz Harvey .

Harvey removed, weighed and dissected

Einstein's brain into several pieces; some of the pieces he kept to himself while others were given to leading pathologists .

The pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvery

Einstein's autopsy

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He hoped that cytoarchitectonics would reveal useful information.Harvey photographed the brainfrom many angles. He then dissected it into about 240 blocks and encased the segments in a plastic-like material called collodion.

Thomas Harvey

Thomas said : “Some thought I desecrated the body of Einstein”

Did he want to save one of the

Greatest minds?

Or

Did he commit one the most

heinous crimes?

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Einstein and the ViolinIn his childhood Einstein was fond of music.

“I often think of music, I live my daydreaming through music, and if I were not a physicist I would probably be a musician”

But his life changed when he was given a book about engineering.

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What made Einstein a genius?

The neurophysiologist Dr Mark Lythgoe

Dr Mark Lythgoe

Dr Jim Al-Khalili

and the physicist Dr Jim

Al-Khalili

and the potential for genius by studying the preserved

between the physicaltried to discover whether there is a correlation

appearance of the brain

brain of Albert Einstein.

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The perspectives of the two doctors about the reason behind Einstein’s genius

Dr Mark: It is known that many parts of the brain are like muscles therefore, we can increase their abilities, so if our brains work like muscles

Do all of us have the potential to become Einstein ?

What created Einstein’s thoughts is the brain and for sure there are some parts left.

Dr Jim: The brain is like a skeleton it has natural limits.

Einstein’s genius is in his thoughts and imaginations therefore, we can’t find thoughts stored in containers.

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The study of professor Marian C.

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The study of professor Marian C. The science of brain focuses only on the

neurons and ignores the other cells in the brain.

Glial cells, which act as electric factors, they isolate and repair neurons in place, increase the speed of pulses and repair brain’s complex circuits.

Professor Marian discovered through her experiences that rats that are left isolated, their glial cells don’t grow significantly as much as the rats that exercise and play with other rats.

The glial cells are very important for the mental development.

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The study and analysis of Einstein’s brain by Professor Marian C.

In the 1980s, University of California, Berkeley. Harvey gave her samples of Einstein's brain.

She used a microscope to count the glial cells. Einstein's brain had more glial cells relative to

neurons in all areas studied, but only in the left inferior parietal area was the

difference statistically significant. This area is part of the association cortex, regions of the brain responsible for incorporating

and synthesizing information from multiple other brain regions.

Glial cells provide support and nutrition in the brain, form myelin, and participate in signal transmission.

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Mr. Michio Kaku

Einstein was asked about the reason of his genius. He said he used to ask himself some childish questions.

Ex. If the current time is 12:00 o'clock on earth, would it be the same on Venus or

Mars?He spent years trying to find answers for his

questions..

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"I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it." -- Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than

knowledge .For knowledge is limited to all we now know and

understand ,while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -- Albert Einstein Who needs socks when

you might have more glial cells

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Autismsome professional psychiatrists say

that Einstein was a high functioning autistic because Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four, and not fluently in his own language until he was eight or nine. 

An autistic brain has a cerebrum larger than normal, and a cerebellum smaller than normal. An autopsy of Einstein's brain showed that Einstein's cerebrum was indeed larger than normal (like an autistic brain). Unfortunately however, they did not reveal the size of his cerebellum. .

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While Einstein’s brain weighed 1,230 grams ,which is within normal human range ,

the brain had no parietal operculum in either hemisphere and had an enlarged Sylvan fissure .

Certain parts of his brain also had more glial cells in relation to neurons.

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Finally, in 1998, Harvey returned Einstein's brain

to the pathologist at Princeton Hospital.

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Einstein’s genius riddle has been practically solved. But from my personal point of view, although we know now what was the reason behind the high level of concentration. We can’t bear it again, the genius that has come up with all the ideas and theories simply died. And Einstein will stay one great journey of mind that changed many of our conceptions of life.

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