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Friday, November 30, 2012

brain features of a genius



Here's we talk about brain features of a genius. one of them's  Einstein's brain Privileges. They found was a miracle. "Although the overall size and shape of brain asymmetry Einstein classified as normal, but the prefrontal somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortex his incredible," said Falk.

"It may have given neurological underpinnings for some visuospatial ability (ability to understand concepts through visual representation) and mathematics," he added.

Falk explains, for example, part of the frontal lobes of Einstein's "extra hard". Parietal lobe is owned by the originator of the theory of relativity in some of the "remarkable asymmetry". While the primary somatosensory and motor cortex (areas that usually represents the face and tongue) was "very extensive in the left hemisphere."

Falk also claim enthralled. Besides Falk, distinctiveness also raises questions for Albert Galaburda, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

"Among them is whether Einstein had a special brain that tends to make him a great physicist, or whether physical activity are major causes certain parts of the developing brain," said Galaburda, in Science magazine.

Einstein's genius, says Galaburda, it may be because "some combination of specific brain and environmental influences that Einstein lived."

Not a New Phenomenon

Interestingly, the study of Einstein's brain is not a new phenomenon. According to the BBC, in 1999, scientists at McMaster University in Ontario
able to compare the shape and size of Einstein's brain with about 90
people who have average intelligence.

The researchers, who also used some photos Harvey, at the time it was discovered at least "one area of ​​the brain is significantly different than most people."

Many years later, the magazine Science published 2009, Falk wrote an analysis of Einstein's brain, and claims to have identified "a number of unusual features, not previously known."


The door is now open for other scientists to learn more about the legendary physicist brain. For example, Falk said, scientists could see "the genius brain and compare them to Einstein."

"There's a revolution going on in neuroscience today and there are technologies that can make the picture more meaningful," he said. "We are still learning from Einstein, many years after his death," said Falk.


Legendary scientist Albert Einstein has long been considered as one of the very genius that ever lived. It begs the question, how can Einstein so special in the world of science?

Puzzle is finding a bright spot when the scientists found a hint of the physicists that brain belongs. According to a new study led by evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University (FSU), it was found that part of Einstein's brain is not like most people's brains and have extraordinary cognitive abilities.

"Some things seem normal," said Falk told The Huffington Post. "Normal size, shape overall brain asymmetry, and it is normal. What is unusual is the complexity and convolution (convex folds on the surface of the brain) in various parts of the brain," he said.

According to a written statement issued by the University, in a study published in the journal "Brain" issue of 16 November 2012, it emerged Einstein's description of the entire cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is a thin layer of gray consisting of 15-33 billion neurons.

To do this, Falk and colleagues studied 14 new photos which have not been revealed by Einstein's brain. Photograph, Falk said, it is difficult to obtain.

Documents Photos Einstein's brain

Note National Public Radio (NPR), an American media organization
States, said Einstein died in 1955 when his brain has been issued by Thomas Harvey, a doctor at the hospital where Einstein died. It is likely that Harvey never got permission to release the genius brain.

But writer Brian Burrell in "Postcards from the Brain Museum" said the doctor approved child Einstein. Harvey said that he intends to study Einstein's brain. Or at least, Harvey will attempt to find another scientist to do so.

Thanks Harvey, scientists can study Einstein's brain based on a number of photographs and slides of specimens that have been prepared by Harvey. Brain, which was photographed from different angles, also has cut into 240 blocks and slides it has been made histologically.

For the record the statement FSU, most of the photos, and slide block has disappeared from the public for over 55 years. Fortunately, a number of these documents have recently been rediscovered and some of the current document can be found at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

The document was left as many as 14 files. However, Falk and his colleagues still able to take a closer look and find out the mysteries that are stored in the brain of Einstein.