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Yessi Pratiwi — July 23, 2007 / 6:23 pm
A man with tiny brain has shocked France. American Scientist reported, 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. This reality is hard to believe, since intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average score of 100 but not considered mentally retarded or disabled. It is also too difficult to describe how the brain can deal with something which we think should not be compatible with life.
“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. The whole brain was reduced – frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes – on both left and right sides. These regions control motion, sensibility, language, vision, audition, and emotional and cognitive functions,” says Lionel Feuillet, a neurologist at the Mediterranean University in Marseille, France.
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