Brains:
In 1950, a man named Professor J Corsellis, started work at this hospital as a consultant neuropathologist. A few years later, he was joined by another Dr, called Clive Burton. After a slow start they built up a vast number of specimens that were important for diagnostic reasons. These are mainly from Runwell patients as it was routine to perform an autopsy on in patients who had died. The Corsellis collection numbered approximately 9000 by the time he died in 1994. Discoveries of major importance have been possible due to the diversity of the brain samples he had collected. Some of the main areas which benefited from Prof Corsellis' work was brain damage suffered during boxing matches; epilepsy; degenerative ageing process in normal brains; v-CJD; ageing and dementia; schizophrenia; Huntingdon's disease and the effects of drugs. If some of you were lucky enough to find your own brain candle, don't worry - these are more than likely going to be control specimens rather than something catching!
The Corsellis Collection is now owned by the West London Mental Heath NHS Trust.
Here are some negatives found in the lab:
Some more brain slides:
