Bengaluru's Brain Museum is an experience for the curious and brave

Apart from promoting organ donation, the museum's goal is also to de-stigmatise issues that engulf mental health, says Shankar

Nikita Puri 

Some of the toughest questions to be tackled on the usually quiet campus of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) in Bengaluru come from the batches of school students who visit the campus regularly: If a person has two heads, which head will control the body? Are brain transplants possible? What happens when we sleepwalk? Where is the soul? What about the mind? Where do dreams come from? The ones who are often at the receiving end of these questions are Shwetha S D and Hemalatha B N, part of the team that runs the one-of-a-kind Brain Museum in ...

First Published: Fri, May 04 2018. 22:06 IST