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More posts by David Dubin Dr. David Dubin After Einstein’s
death, his brain was preserved for future study. Scientists were
naturally curious to see how the brain of this genius compared
with the brain of a person of ordinary intelligence. Would there
be an abundance of neurons (grey matter) or some unusual wiring
of the neurons that distinguished his brain? When the brain was
dissected, however, the only difference was that the numbers of
cells that were not neurons (white matter) was dramatically
increased. It is also true that, from evolutionary point of
view, as brains became larger and “smarter”, what increased was
not the percentage of neurons but of white matter. What does
this mean? When most of us--scientists and lay people
alike—imagine the brain, we think of neurons, those cells
carrying information in the form