Neuro Images

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Permalink Cross section of the head and brain made from quilled paper. By Lisa Nilsson
Permalink Diffusion tensor imaging of white matter tracts in the human brain. Randy Buckner/ Bruce Rosen/ Massachusetts General Hospital/ Proto Magazine.
Permalink Life-size brain sandwich by Sara Asnaghi.
Permalink 46 microscope slides containing ultra-thin sections of Einstein’s brain go on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. Evi Numen/ Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia/ Live Science. 
Permalink Confocal micrograph of young mouse hippocampus stained for Doublecortin and Zif268. Jason Snyder/ Functional Neurogenesis blog
Permalink Rat neurons grown as neurospheres. Rowan Orme/ Keele University/ Nikon Small World.
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Permalink Artist Amy Caron stands beneath a giant homunculus in her two-room interactive/ theatre art show about mirror neurons and the brain. Kristen Murphy/ Deseret News.
Permalink Hippocampus II, detail. 16 x 16 print by Greg Dunn (via Bioephemera)
Permalink PennState (Via Wired)
Permalink Myelin map of the human brain created by magnetic resonance imaging. David Van Essen/ Washington University School of Medicine. See: Mapping Human Cortical Areas in vivo Based on Myelin Content as Revealed by T1- and T2-weighted MRI
Permalink New cover designs for Oliver Sacks’ books, by Carbon Web. (Via The Beautiful Brain) 
Permalink cwnl: Vesicles of The Neuron A colorized scanning EM of a nerve broken open to reveal the vesicles containing the neurotransmitters. Image Credit: NIH, via Curiosity/Discovery, via Sloth Unleashed
Permalink elettrogenica: Come funziona l’occhio, “Il secolo illustrato”, 1936
Permalink From Kaishi hen, Sinnin Kawaguchi (1736-1811). Historical Anatomies on the Web/ National Library of Medicine