Countless shelves line the walls of a basement at Denmark's University of Odense, holding what is thought to be the world's largest collection of brains.
There are 9,479 of the organs, all removed from the corpses of mental health patients over the course of four decades until the 1980s.
Stromgren and his colleagues believed"maybe they could find out something about where mental illnesses were localized, or they thought they might find the answers in those brains". Denmark considered"mentally ill" people, as they were called at the time,"a burden to society if we let them have children, if we let them loose… they will cause all kinds of trouble," Vaczy Kragh said.
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