Pantheon of brains: the Moscow Brain Research Institute 1925-1936.
The investigation of Lenin's brain by the German neurobiologist Oskar Vogt and his Russian collaborators in Moscow is one of the most exciting and simultaneously questionable chapters in the history of medicine. With the bizarre claim to be able to detect the material substrate of genius it provoked as much unrealistic expectations in the public as strong criticism by the scientific community of brain researchers. The following paper deals in a brief survey with the foundation and the early history of the Moscow Brain Research Institute (INSTITUT MOZGA) and its initial task - the collecting and mapping the brains of famous (Russian) persons in general and the investigation of Lenin's brain in particular.
Richter
Jochen
J
jorichter-berlin@gmx.de
D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history*; D001921:Brain; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009031:Moscow; D009445:Neuroanatomy / Q000266:history*; D009482:Neurophysiology / Q000266:history*