Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Now, this has been in alcohol or formaldehyde since at least 2008, probably earlier.

And...

when you first pull a brain out, it's even softer.

It's like a tough jelly.

So that when you first bring out a fresh brain, if you take your finger and you just poke it into the tissue, it'll squeeze right in and then you pull your finger out and then it goes, it'll scrunch right back together again.

Yeah.

So this is a prepared specimen and we have to do that and lock together the proteins or the lipids in order for us to be able to handle it for educational purposes.

Well, it's part of the system because this, what you're holding, is the central nervous system.

And then the central, all of it, and then the central nervous system sends between each of the vertebrae.

Here you have different vertebrae.

Between different vertebrae, you will have different nerves coming out and then going around the body.

And then you're also going to have vagus nerves coming off of the brainstem area and going down into the abdomen, taking care of the viscera.

I love it.

I love it.

I was very blessed to have an aunt who was a debutante back in the years where debutantes did not get jobs.

And she wanted to be an emergency room doctor, but there was no way that she was going to do that.

So she would actually encourage me to pick up roadkill, and we would take it home and dissect it.

It's beautiful.

See, that look, we have two responses.

The left brain says, oh my gosh, this is disgusting.