From the Telegraph

Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain.

“For me, there were two humorous aspects. One was simply to undertake such a ridiculously complex, time consuming project for no practical reason.

“The second was the idea of making a somewhat mysterious and difficult object – a brain – out of a ‘cuddly’, cheerfully coloured, familiar material like cotton yarn.”

Here we have the rare case of a psychiatrist spending a year doing something useful – insofar as she could not use the time taken knitting to further muddle some already sufficiently addled patient-victim.