• Question: Have you ever touched a real life human brain?

    Asked by eastendersluver to Chris, Hayley, Jimi, Omur on 16 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Jimi Wills

      Jimi Wills answered on 16 Mar 2016:

      Yes… not of a living person though.

    • Photo: Chris Conselice

      Chris Conselice answered on 16 Mar 2016:

      No, not much chance to do that in astronomy!

    • Photo: Hayley Moulding

      Hayley Moulding answered on 17 Mar 2016:

      I have!! Unfortunately not of a living person either. As one of my jobs I used to cut up human brains of people with dementia and had sadly died. I got to cut up the brain and do lots of tests on it.

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