Posted on 07/20/2007 3:05:49 PM PDT by blam
Man with tiny brain shocks doctors
12:17 20 July 2007
NewScientist.com news service
New Scientist and Reuters
The large black space shows the fluid that replaced much of the patient’s brain (left). For comparison, the images (right) show a typical brain without any abnormalities (Images: Feuillet et al./The Lancet)
A man with an unusually tiny brain manages to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, which was caused by a fluid build-up in his skull.
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.
“It is hard for me [to say] exactly the percentage of reduction of the brain, since we did not use software to measure its volume. But visually, it is more than a 50% to 75% reduction,” says Lionel Feuillet, a neurologist at the Mediterranean University in Marseille, France.
Feuillet and his colleagues describe the case of this patient in The Lancet. He is a married father of two children, and works as a civil servant.
Not retarded
The man went to a hospital after he had mild weakness in his left leg. When Feuillet's staff took his medical history, they learned that, as an infant, he had had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away hydrocephalus – water on the brain.
The shunt was removed when he was 14. But the researchers decided to check the condition of his brain using computed tomography (CT) scanning technology 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.
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My take on to what many others have alluded: this goes a long way to explain Reid and Pelosi.
Thank you Spiff. Bears repeating.
Left: Normal Brainscan - Right: Terri Schiavo Brainscan
Keep telling yourself that.
Nope they said normal and not retarded, you have the wrong guy.
LOL too funny. In Ted's case, the fluid is Scotch.
Funny how everyone's first thought is a bureaucrat, and it turns out to be true.
You make this $#!t up.
Ted, Harry, Nancy, Johnny...
In France, I think, as well.
‘Keep telling yourself that.’
Don’t have to. After 30+ years as a registered CT tech in Level 1 trauma centers in an urban environment on the midnight shift, I can ‘read’ the crap out of CT’s-neuro, body, and ortho. By the way, one of the ‘comparative’ images is actually a T1 MRI sagital reconstruction-not a CT.
You are so right. Most are making this a funny topic, and I can understand that, I like jokes too.
This is a very serious subject and really not to be taken lightly.
The thought that she may have known, makes me very sad.
Ex husbands, ex wives, attorneys, courts and humans, are not able scientifically, and are biased, they cannot keep politics aside, which renders them unable to make just decisions.
God would not have denied her food.
I myself, always thought we should error on the side of life.
Wet dreams?
Good place to bump this thread.
Parrots.
Are you saying that Terri Schiavo had more or less liquid in her brain vs. working brain tissue?
re; 27
Senator who???
Very impressive that you could figure those numbers out.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you don’t have a brain?
Scarecrow: I don’t know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they.
A masterpiece.
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