In 1945, hoping to learn as much as possible from the brains of the mentally ill post-mortem, Denmark established a centralized institute to insure that standardized methods were followed and the findings properly documented.
The result is the brain collection at the Aarhus University Hospital Centre for Psychiatric Research, possibly the world's largest collection of brains from subjects who suffered with various mental illnesses. From 5,500 brains plagued by dementia, 1,500 with schizophrenia, 300 with depression, and 300 with bi-polar disorder...The actual collecting of brains stopped in 1982, when it was deemed unethical to remove the brains of deceased patients without first getting their consent or that of their families.The Aarhus Brain Collection is sadly not open to the public....
but make sure you pick the right Brain:
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