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The amazing adaptability of the Human Brain.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...ry/Science/home
quote: Reuters
July 19, 2007 at 8:06 PM EDT
A man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by a fluid buildup in his skull, French researchers reported on Thursday.
Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue.
"He was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant," Dr. Lionel Feuillet and colleagues at a university in Marseille wrote in a letter to the Lancet medical journal.
The man went to a hospital after he had mild weakness in his left leg. When Dr. Feuillet's staff took his medical history, they learned he had had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away hydrocephalus -- water on the brain -- as an infant.
The shunt was removed when he was 14.
So the researchers did a computed tomography (CT) scan and another type of scan called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They were astonished to see "massive enlargement" of the lateral ventricles -- usually tiny chambers that hold the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain.
Intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average score of 100 but not considered mentally retarded or disabled, either.
"What I find amazing to this day is how the brain can deal with something which you think should not be compatible with life," commented Dr. Max Muenke, a pediatric brain defect specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
"If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side," added Dr. Muenke, who was not involved in the case.
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As the Computerized axial tomography scan shows (CAT Scan) this gentleman did not have a brain, really.
For those of you lazy bums who do not want to read all of that, the article is about a man whose brain was mostly fluid and he still had an IQ of 75.
A lot of humans think that our brain power comes from the size of our brain. Obviously, that is not true. Our brain power comes from the complexity of our brain and how it functions. Think of how intelligent we would be if we used more of our brain.
Aug 8th, 2007 03:39 AM
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quote: "He was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant ,"
what a surprise
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Aug 8th, 2007 04:59 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Schecter
what a surprise
With an IQ of 75? what did you expect?
Aug 8th, 2007 05:10 AM
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probably another half bained dipshit at the dmv
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Aug 8th, 2007 05:16 AM
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