Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mind

[Sisyphus]

In the 55 years since Albert Einstein's death, many scientists have tried to figure out what made him so smart.

But no one tried harder than a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who lost his job and his reputation in a quest to unlock the secrets of Einstein's genius. Harvey never found the answer. But through an unlikely sequence of events, his search helped transform our understanding of how the brain works.

Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126229305

Tiny metal electrodes are attached to Albert Einstein's head to pick up impulses from his brain and to magnify and record them for study in 1950 in Princeton, N.J. Dr. Alejandro Arellano kneels beside him.

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[jshort]

Interesting story...its funny.

So the results of Harvey stealing Einstein's brain have resulted in a better understanding of gliad cells and how they communicate.