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Monday 17 August 2015

Man who went to hospital with sore leg baffles doctors who discovered he only had half a brain

One patient at a hospital in France got the most unlikely of shocks when he went for a check-up on a leg injury - to be told he was missing half of his brain.The 44-year-old father-of-two, who has not been identified, amazed doctors who could not believe he had survived.
The bizarre diagnosis has only just been brought to light in the respected medical journal, The Lancet, but actually happened in 2007.
Lionel Feuillet, who studied the man’s brain, told the New Scientist: "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."

X-rays showed up to 75% of the man's brain was missing
Doctors discovered that the man had suffered post-natal hydrocephalus- or water on the brain - as a child
Shunts applied to his head were removed when he was 14 and it is thought for the next 30 years fluid continued to build in his brain and slowly break down brain matter until he lost between 50% to 75%.

Now, after an eight year study, scientists believe the man survived because his brain reorganised itself over time.

Most of the brain fluid has now been drained and the man lives a normal life with a job in the civil service.
Scientists writing in the Lancet have therefore reached the conclusion that a person’s intelligence and brain size are not as related as once thought.
They believe that as bits of the brain died, other parts took on the jobs the dead bits used to do.


UK Mirror

22 comments:

  1. Na wa o!
    There is nothing we will not hear sha!

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  2. One thing i've discovered in medical school is that nothing in medicine is constant, even the theories that are holding sway now might change tomorrow. God's way of telling man that he doesn't know much. I just hope one breakthrough in medicine can come from an African, not just an African abroad, but an african in his own country.

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  3. Since it doesn't affect his life in any way..they shouldn't have told him about it; now the fear will kill him.

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  4. This is what I call miracle. Scientist be given any name they like.

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  5. Chai, that's bad





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  6. Good God.

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  7. Here's my take on that...science is always in the flux of confusion...

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  8. Hmmmmm! Dis is God's awesomeness. Linda take note!

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  9. Hmmmmm! Dis is God's awesomeness. Linda take note!

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  10. Hmmmmm! Dis is God's awesomeness. Linda take note!

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  11. One of the ways the omniscient God Almighty shows human beings they know nothing about how they came to be

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  12. LOL when people say someone has half a brain as an insult, there is actually someone with half a brain. weird.

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  13. More like an 'IRIRI AYE' kinda story...

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  14. ...but dis no be x-ray na...haba!

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  15. Studies have have made us realize that we only use 10percent of our brain function's....and so the bulkiness of a brain doesn't count...because all that is needed is just a transmission of just that 10 percent out of 100 and once we go beyond that...then brain issues start occurring

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  16. God Is Awesome! http://www.bummyla.com

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  17. wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Awesome God. The doctors, philosophers and scientist are still in awe of his existence.

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  18. I love human genetic evolution. God is a fantastic designer. I'm sure we haven't seen half of what is yet to come.

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