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Missing Brains Found In San Antonio

Sara Krevoy |
December 3, 2014 | 10:31 a.m. PST

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After several reports of 100 brains stored in glass jars vanishing from the University of Texas at Austin, the missing specimens have been located.

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The brains were found at the University of Texas in San Antonio, where they had apparently been stored for years.  

The missing gray matter was part of a donation of 200 human brains to the university by the Austin State Hospital nearly 30 years ago. They came mostly from mental hospital patients and were used to study Alzheimer's disease.

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