I think it’s the largest collection in the world actually and as you said, almost 10,000 brains that were collected from 1945 to early 1980s

and it was collected by a very prominent Danish psychiatrist

The brilliant?thing they did back then was when they finished autopsy,

they kept the brain,they kept the martial that they have examined and

put it up on the shelf and said ok.maybe in a long time from now 50 years maybe even more,someone will come and know more about the brain then we do now.

There were no people from the outside asking questions about what went on in these state institutions.?

The patients in psychiatry had very few rights

you could get treated without being kind of saying yes to that particular treatment. So and patients were seen as not as equal to other Danish at the time.

but I think the debate has basically settled down and say ok

This is a very impressive and a very useful scientific research if you want to know more about metal disease. so I think that’s sort of the approach that they have now.

These were brains from patients from many years ago when they were not treated with the treatment that we have now

Because when we look at the our brains, of course,the changes maybe also be a consequence of the treatment that the patients have received.

and when they compare with the brains from the Udence brain bank

we can see whether these changes could be associated with the treatment or not as those brains were not treated.

autospy 尸檢

psychiatrist 精神科醫(yī)生

psychiatry 精神病學

prominent 著名的