Involves the analysis of a persons brain following their death.
Individuals whose brains are subject to PM examinations have either a rare disorder or have experienced unsual deficits in cognitive processes or behaviour during their lifetime.
Areas of damage within the brain are examined after death as a means of establishing the likely cause of affliction the person experienced.
PM examinations may also involve comparisons to a neurotypical brain as a means to ascertain the extent of difference.
The brain is analysed after death to determine whether certain observed behaviours during the persons lifetime can be linked to structural abnormalities in the brain.
