<i>Exceptional Einstein had 'complicated' brain</i>

Although the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's brain was divided into 240 blocks and distributed to researchers after his death in 1955, most of the specimens were lost and little was written about its anatomy.
Now scientists have used photographs of the brain before it was segmented to produce a "road map" connecting the 240 sections and the 2,000 thin slivers into which they were later split.
The photographs, taken from the private collection of Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who divided the brain up, reveal a number of peculiarities about Einstein's brain.
A comparison with 85 other brains showed that, although the great scientist's brain was only of average size, weighing 1,230 grams, certain areas contains an unusually high number of folds and grooves.
In each of the brain's lobes, anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University found "regions that are exceptionally complicated in their convolutions".
The finding confirmed reports in two previous papers which suggested that an unusual pattern of ridges in the brain could have been linked to Einstein's remarkable ability to solve problems in physics.
Further study could help determine whether Einstein originally had an extraordinary brain which gave him his talent at physics, or whether his remarkable work caused his brain to expand in an unusual way.