Up close with a human brain - BBC News

As part of the BBC #In the Mind series Fergus Walsh visits the Bristol Brain Bank, one of a network of ten brain banks managed by the Medical Research Council. Here he shares some facts and figures about what makes the human brain one of the most complex structures in the world. The report contains detailed shots of the human brain from the start.

[gannon]

my brain googled to know what it looked like.

[keenmachine]

in his hands, someone had dreams, loved, felt pain. Was so happy they clapped in kindergarden. Locked in neuro pathways is their memories

[LegendJoe]

When u realised That brain was once alive and functioning its just unbelievable.

[ChloeBaldwin]

It's weird to think that was actually a person at one time

[buyfiverr]

Better than any super computer, with energy of a dim light bulb. Without over over heating, and produces consciousness. What a wonderful organ. We have much to learn yet.

[saritasinha]

My brain is looking at someone in brain and processing itself to understand itself

[chairmanofrussia]

That brain probably made funny youtube comments, made sex jokes and even laughed lived and loved and looked at memes. A complete human being.

[edineujunior]

The brain is the most amazing computer in the world, along side our other hardware it manages our emotions, coordination, speech, vision, hearing....its unbelievable and we all are given one.

[merits]

So beautiful and complex, yet so little known, dreams, mental health issues, etc

[CoachJohnMcGuirk.]

He's holding a person's inactive mind. Their memories and such. Imagine if that person was still alive, being held by this man, but it's light's out for them. They can still think, they're still awake and aware! Maybe they'd be thinking, "I wonder what's going on outside, I wonder when the doc is gonna put me back in my body >.<"

[joshygoldiem_j]

Dat man has access to an entire life's worth of memories, taking stalking to a whole new level.

[aquila]

Some how i feel my brain being touched while watching him holding and touching the brain, some how, it gave me a headache

[blairyangin]

Interesting knowing that stored someone’s lifetime of memories

[anonymous]

Huge respect to whoever that brain belonged to.

[kal-el]

very interesting I always find it amazing that if we were to replicate the intelligence of the brain it would take a computer the size of a city. How far we have come but yet still far to go

[DAGIEBOB]

Me and my fellow brain homies laughing at this loser for losing his flesh suit

[foxylady]

marvellous organ until a stroke hits it then it's

[bizmarkie]

We are amazing. We're such complex living machines pretty much.

[fh_jar]

It feels weird and also curious to know how they extract the brain from someone else's head intact like that 😟

[geoffreyharris]

My brother's 3-year-old son found this interesting.