CNN Uncovers Dark Origins of Massive Brain Collection in Denmark

November 10th, 2022 CNN Uncovers Dark Origins of Massive Brain Collection in Denmark ‘World’s Untold Stories: The Brain Collectors’ featuring Dr. Sanjay Gupta airs November 12 on CNN International TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/769565568/038c137fdf CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta travels to Denmark to uncover the dark origins and mysteries of what’s believed to be the largest collection of human brains anywhere in the world in a new hour-long special, World’s Untold Stories: The Brain Collectors, airing Saturday, November 12 at 1pm CET on CNN International. Stored in the basement of a university in southern Denmark, nearly 10,000 brains sit in white plastic buckets on rolling shelves. The brains are from men and women who died in Danish psychiatric hospitals from 1945-1982, most taken without consent. In this nearly year-long investigation, Gupta interviews Dr. Martin Wirenfeldt Nielsen, a pathologist and current director of the Brain Collection. Nielsen became the custodian of the brains several years ago when the University of Southern Denmark in the city of Odense took possession of the collection. There are 9,479 brains in Nielsen’s care, with roughly 5,500 brains with dementia, 1,400 with schizophrenia, 400 with bi-polar disorder, 300 with depression and more. “Back then, [doctors] really had
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