"Anatomy of the soul" is a short science-fiction movie project I have made 4 years ago to present during a seminar on hippocampus at the University of California San Francisco where I was doing my post-doctoral fellowship at a psychiatry neuroimaging lab. I did the movie using power point slides. The song used is "2025-Ucuncu ve Son Yolculuk- 2025 -The Third and Last Journey" by a Turkish ethnic/psychedelic Rock musician Baris Manco.
2. The search for the seat of the soul in the body has taken its place in the history
3. The early search for the soul involved almost al l civilizations In ancient times so many places were suggested as the place of soul; i.e. heart, all the body, fourth ventricle, the brain substance itself,pineal gland etc
4. Hippocampus is the most vulnerable place in the brain to several types of insult like ischemic insult.
7. An ordinary morning at the lab John was reviewing the control data to scan for today Katie glancing at the paper on the net while having her breakfast
8. John (32) a young scientist, a man of passion and imagination Katie (33), a dedicated scientist, and more reasonable
9. John : Katie! Today we’ve a bus of kids as the control group, and a girl of 22 years old. John:
10. ADV (Angel of Death Virus) A legend or does it really exist? 11:45 a.m. EDT November 5, 2025
11. Katie : I see. John, what is that Angel of Death Virus?
12. Oh, Gosh! Yes.. Some unidentified cases. They say this new virus enters the body, stays cool in cervical vertabrae till it activates for some reason. n 5 minutes. Immediate death! John :
13. When activates it eats up all the cervical vertabrae, breaks the neck shortly. Immediate death!
14. Selma (22) Spent the afternoon at the hospital. As a control group subject Took all the tests ,also MR scan
15. She was paid 150 bucks. Now she drives back home.
34. John : Hippocampus…It has a lot of functions, but also is the seat for the soul! The souls of these people left their bodies there tonight from their hippocampi!
35. If you believe in the immortality of the soul, you can explain our finding saying “ it was there, and just left the body” or hippocampus being the Exitus pole for the soul!
36. If you believe it is dead after death! Then it has gone with the body….left back its seat atrophic!
37. American Journal of Psychiatry Dec 2025 List of articles in this issue: Pages 1-5: Hippocampus: The seat for the soul?