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| Woman with half a brain |
| 2007-11-16 |
| I wonder if she's curvy? Or if she's a civil servant? Well, at least, she can escape knives-to-the-head types of injuries 50% of the time. Doctors treating a Chinese woman who complained of feeling weak discovered she only had half a brain. The woman, 39, from Wuhan city, has lived a perfectly normal life and only came into hospital after she complained of feeling weak and stiff. Zhang Linhong, director of Neural Rehabilitation Department at the local hospital, said: "On the MRI scans we were surprised to see that she only has grey matter on the right side. "Our usual understanding is that the left brain controls language. But this patient has no problem communicating with people." The woman's mother said her daughter lives a very normal life. "She graduated from high school with good marks. Her memory is very good. She remembers phone numbers and names immediately." "She doesn't drool much, and she can walk pretty well." |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 During autopsies, doctors have been stunned to find people who led average lifes that had their skulls lined with about 1/4" of actual brain matter. The rest of the brain case was filled with fluid. While none of these subjects were super geniuses, neither were they retarded. It just goes to show the incredible amount of redundancy in our neural systems. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-16 22:22 |
| #2 Reminds me of a Net article a few years ago, where surgeons removed a person's damaged heart tissue, reformed and made the heart smaller, but the person's heart not only worked it functioned better than before. If it could be done wid a human heart, why not a human brain??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-16 18:49 |
| #1 Nancy Pelosi is Chinese? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-11-16 14:45 |