Through images, Carl Schoonover, a neuroscientist tells the fascinating history of the brain in his new book, Portraits of the Mind. Most of these images, from the first ever known medieval Arabic drawing to the brilliantly colored “Brainbow” produced using state-of-the-art techniques, have never been seen before by the general public, but have been employed daily by scientists around the world to expand our understanding of the brain.
- Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century by Carl Schoonover
- Phrenological Skull (19th century)
- Medieval Arabic Diagram of the Visual System (circa 1027, published in 1083)
- Cortical Blood Vessels (Photomicrograph, 2009)
- Retina (Photomicrograph, 2008)
- Axons “Brainbow” (Photomicrograph, 2007)
- Axon Scaffolding Proteins (Photomicrograph, 2008)
- Hippocampus (Photomicrograph, 2005)
To read more, check out the photoessay by The Loom!
[via The Loom]