[Salamander]

I'm not a radiologist but I'd recognize a "dark area" like that, anywhere.

I have one just like it where my frontal lobe used to be...i.e. "gone", "missing", "pining for the fjords", etc etc etc.

[and damn if I'm not still here annoying people who say this "proves" she's "brain dead"]....;)

[amom]

"I'm not a radiologist..."

Thanks for nothing then.

[Killborn]

Are you, by any chance, a Norwegian blue? :)

[cajungirl]

We all have ventricles, sort of cavenous like spaces filled with spinal fluid in the middle of the brain. They enlarge as brain tissue is lost or if there is a blockage and they fill up,,hydrocephalus. You have seen babies with big heads, or used to, now they shunt the fluid off and the babies heads don't get huge. Big ventricles occur as we age. Other conditions cause them. I can't tell much about the cortex but it looks small to me but not gone. Just smaller. If you have a stroke, one part will get small. This looks just generally smaller but there is a cortex. It isn't all gone.

[DJ MacWoW]

Thanks for the info. An MRI would show more.

Of course, she still has that experimental brain stimulator in her head so unless someone knows exactly what they were looking at.........

[TASMANIANRED]

I've posted you story here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1366399/posts, should you desire to follow.

Thank you.