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To: TASMANIANRED
Wonder what her brain weighed before 13 days of dehydration.

Good point. Terri's previously posted brain scans reported that she did not have more than 80% of her brain left. Now, they dehydrated her and they only report the weight of the brain. Needless to say, I can't figure the math.

173 posted on 06/15/2005 4:43:04 PM PDT by bjs1779 ("I don’t want anyone trying to feed that GIRL" Greer thundered from the bench in 2001)
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To: bjs1779
Clarification. 80% of her brain was missing in the posted scans.
174 posted on 06/15/2005 4:45:42 PM PDT by bjs1779 ("I don’t want anyone trying to feed that GIRL" Greer thundered from the bench in 2001)
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To: bjs1779; TASMANIANRED
Wonder what her brain weighed before 13 days of dehydration.

The Effects of Dehydration on Brain Volume - Preliminary Results

J. M. Dickson1, H. M. Weavers2, N. Mitchell2, E. M. Winter2, I. D. Wilkinson3, E. J. R. Van Beek3, J. M. Wild3, P. D. Griffiths3
1 Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
2 Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
3 Unit of Academic Radiology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Abstract
In adults the cranium is a rigid bony vault of fixed size and therefore the intra-cranial volume is a constant which equals the sum of the volume of the brain, the intra-cranial volume of CSF and the intra-cranial volume of blood. There can be marked changes in the volumes of these three intra-cranial compartments which may influence susceptibility to brain damage after head injury. This is the first study to investigate the relationship between dehydration and changes in the volume of the brain and the cerebral ventricles. Six healthy control subjects underwent magnetic resonance imaging of the brain before and after a period of exercise in an environmental chamber. The subjects lost between 2.1 % and 2.6 % of their body mass due to water loss through sweating. We found a correlation between the degree of dehydration and the change in ventricular volume (r = 0.932, p = 0.007). The changes in ventricular volume caused by dehydration were much larger than those seen in day-to-day fluctuations in a normally hydrated healthy control subject.

This seems to support brain loss due to severe dehydration

182 posted on 06/15/2005 4:59:25 PM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way , I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: bjs1779

It is not a mathematical inconsistency. Volume does not equate to weight.


183 posted on 06/15/2005 5:01:39 PM PDT by lugsoul (Wild Turkey)
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To: bjs1779
Terri's previously posted brain scans reported that she did not have more than 80% of her brain left.

That was "80% of her upper brain," but the mass listed is for her whole brain.

621 posted on 06/16/2005 3:13:40 AM PDT by Gondring (The can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold dead hands.)
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