Three thousand brains of mentally ill people gave Britain Belgium – Federal news agency No.1

Brussels, 6 August. Friday, 5 August, scientists from Belgium have made their British counterparts gift. They gave him three thousand specimens of the human brain by the representatives who had previously suffered from various mental illnesses. This is reported by local media.

This collection, which is the largest in Europe, was compiled by British scientists from the 1950s. In this collection there are brain samples of people suffering from depression, and schizophrenia. The main interest in it lies in the fact that patients who belonged to these brains have never been to medical treatment.

«The unique character of this collection is that in the early 50′s, many people do not pass medical treatment of the psyche . At that time, these drugs did not exist “, – he told the psychiatrist hospital in Duffel Manuel Morrens.

As it turned out, one of the hospitals of London was going to get rid of this collection, as it took up too much space. Brain scientists have gladly accepted medical establishment, located next to the Anteverpenom.