A study led by Scientist and Evolutionary Anthropologist, Dean Falk of Florida State University revealed in the Month of October that the Physicist Albert Einstein's brain had an "extraordinary" prefrontal cortex - unlike those of most people which may have contributed to his remarkable genius.
It was on Einstein's death in 1955 that his brain was removed and photographed from multiple angles with the permission of his family and was sectioned into 240 blocks from which histological slides were prepared.
The researchers came to conclusion after studying 14 newly discovered photographs of Einstein's brain, which was preserved for study after his death. The research concludes that the brain was indeed highly unusual in many ways as it was compared to 85 "normal" human brains and, in light of current functional imaging studies, interpreted its unusual features.
It was found that the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein's brain were normal but the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary.
The study was published in the journal Brain and it also published the "roadmap" to Einstein's brain prepared in 1955 by Dr Thomas Harvey to illustrate the locations within his previously whole brain of 240 dissected blocks of tissue, which provides a key to locating the origins within the brain of the newly emerged histological slides.
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