[I still care]

I can't stand when all these medical "experts" keep talking about so much of her brain being gone. The brain is so poorly understood in its functioning. It's amazing how parts of the brain can be retrained. Nobody really knows how much functioning brain is left in a person.

Here is a scan of a person who had half their brain removed. They seem to do just fine. It's called a hemispherectomy and is performed for epilepsy.

[Nathan Zachary]

She didn't have half a brain, she had NO cerebal cortex at all. Otherwize I would agree with you. I'm sure you saw the xray of what her brain looked like. There was NOTHING left of the cerebal cortex.

[kozachka]

I can't stand when all these medical "experts" keep talking about so much of her brain being gone. The brain is so poorly understood in its functioning. It's amazing how parts of the brain can be retrained. Nobody really knows how much functioning brain is left in a person.

Here is a scan of a person who had half their brain removed. They seem to do just fine. It's called a hemispherectomy and is performed for epilepsy.

There is a difference between losing half your brain, when it is a hemisphere, as opposed to losing large areas of the cerebral cortex.

Parts of the left brain can compensate for corresponding parts of the right brain, and vice versa.

Similarly, you can lose a kidney or a lung, and the other one will make up for it. But if you lose two lungs, having two good kidneys left won't matter.....