The Centre organized an industrial visit of MSc students of batch 2018-2020 from the Department of Biotechnology for Neuroscience to NIMHANS, the pioneer Neuroscience institute in India located in Bangalore, on August 28th, 2019.

This specialized museum can awe many visitors while also making many other visitors squeamish, with its display of 400 human brains in see-through plastic jars. The museum exhibits brains affected by various head injuries, cerebrovascular diseases, brain infections, neurodegenerative disorders, brain tumours, and brains of a few animal species collected over the past 35 years. The most exciting part about this museum is that visitors can touch and feel the human brain on request. Some of the collection highlights are a brain with worms in it, brains affected by Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, smoker’s lungs, and electro- micrographs showing the complexity of the nervous system.

Our students have been covered in an online news channel report on that day. Refer the following below. 'It's rubbery, not gooey': What a trip to Bengaluru's brain museum taught us! (facebook.com)