This Is Your Brain On…

Nope, this isn’t some new, hip culinary fusion of mint chocolate gelatto and tobiko for foodies: it’s your brain. Specifically: “Vesicles of The Neuron: A colorized scanning EM of a nerve broken open to reveal the vesicles containing the neurotransmitters.” It is both awesome and grotesque to visualize what is inside of us, eh?

[Found on the Neuro Images Tumblr. Image Credit: NIH, via Curiosity/Discovery, via Sloth Unleashed]