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Grey matter grey area: Denmark's unusual collection of almost 10,000 brains / 33AR8HN
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In the basement of the University of South Denmark in Odense, a multitude of corridors hosts the "Brain Collection", which counts 9,479 specimens preserved in formalin. The oldest brain dates back to 1945 and the newest to 1982. These brains, preserved after autopsies of mental patients in the Scandinavian country's closed psychiatric institutes, can be used for research, the Danish Ethics Council ruled in the early 1990s, although they were taken without the consent of the patient or his/her family. "No people from the outside were asking questions about what went on in these state institutions," explains Jesper Vaczy Kragh, a specialist in the history of psychiatry in Denmark. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES