100 brains Missing from University of Texas have been Found

The mystery surrounding some 100 missing jars of brains, which vanished from the University of Texas at Austin in the 1990s, has finally been solved.

The brains have been used by neuroscience students to study everything from Huntington's disease to Parkinson's disease, depression, strokes and other disorders.

Decades ago, officials noticed that about half of the 200 brains, given to the university by the Austin State Hospital in 1986, were nowhere to be found, according to USA Today.

 

But the case of the missing brains resurfaced this week with the publication of a book titled “Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital,” by Adam Voorhes and Alex Hannaford.

 

 

"After several news stories appeared Wednesday about 100 brains vanishing from the college, someone called from the University of Texas in San Antonio to say the 100 specimens in glass jars full of formaldehyde were just fine, and they'd been at the school for years," the NY Daily News details.

 

“They have the brains,” Timothy Schallert, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the Austin school, told the Los Angeles Times. “They read a media report of the missing brains and they called to say: ‘We got those brains!’"