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Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later (newatlas.com)

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Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Very interesting result but it's sad reading about having a 9 month old baby's brain tissue being cut up into 2-3mm chunks. I didn't know that brain tissue extraction was used to treat seizures. With the retraction of some papers in China due to ethics of samples being taken from unwilling minority groups I was hoping to see a bit more about where the samples came from in the paper.

[–] db2 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4729844/

[–] mojofrododojo 2 points 4 months ago

it's so bizarre that they can delete half a brain lobe and still function, and in some cases thrive. It's the best argument I've seen for Pribram's holographic brain theory, which I don't endorse but find fascinating.