A Look into Einstein's Brain
Monday, October 20, 2008

Albert Einstein's brain has often been a subject of research and speculation. Scientific studies have suggested that his brain’s regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger.

Einstein's brain was removed, weighed and preserved by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Einstein.

Einstein's brain weighed only 1,230 grams, which is less than the average adult male brain (about 1,400 grams). The thickness of Einstein's cerebral cortex (area 9) was thinner. His brain is also 15% wider than ordinary brains.

In 1999, analysis by a team at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, Canada revealed that his parietal operculum region was vacant. Also absent was part of a bordering region called the lateral sulcus (Sylvian fissure). Researchers at McMaster University speculated that the vacancy may have enabled neurons in this part of his brain to communicate better.

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