God tells Napoleon...

In a psychiatrist's waiting room two patients are having a conversation. One says to the other, "Why are you here?"
The second answers, "I'm Napoleon, so the doctor told me to come here."
The first is curious and asks, "How do you know that you're Napoleon?"
The second responds, "God told me I was."
At this point, a patient on the other side of the room shouts, "NO I DIDN'T!"

A little...or big taste of Alice's house :)

Who Has the Biggest Brain?

Here is a cute and addictive game that challenges your logic, memory, visual and your mathematic abilities.

Of course, this is not scientific and the score you get is arbitrary. However, even though it is just for fun, some of the games are variants of some valid neuropsychological tests I've encountered.

List of biggest brains:

You can try to guess which brain is from what animal on this website: Neuroscience for Kids - Brain Comparisons

Brain and Body Sizes

Evolution & the Brain

List of biggest brains proportional to the body:

Sources:

http://www.playfish.com/?page=game_braingame

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/compare2.html

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Size1.html

New technology in neurosurgery at the MNI

Last summer as I was working at the Montreal Neurological Institute in the Patients' Committee, I witnessed the introduction of a new piece of technology for neurosurgery. It involves the neurosurgery students into a simulated surgery of the brain where they can feel the brain with probes, see a 3D brain as they cut, poke the brain... There will be no more: "Resident: Hi, I will be operating on your brain! Patient: Have you done this before??? Resident: Not really, you're my first!!!!"
Over the summer, a patient's room of multiple beds in 4 North was transformed into a locked conference room, where they presented this new technology and where possibly the students will practice.