"Had no brain seemed to live normally" .. This explains a LOT!.. Haha..https://bit.ly/3cQ0BhZ
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Replying to @Dr_FarrisD
Many cases of humans that are by all appearances normal but missing massive volume of brain parenchyma like the middle figure here.pic.twitter.com/u8zt9G2tDg
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Replying to @BolognaFishMD
Yeah I had a presentation of that case actually haha
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Replying to @Dr_FarrisD @BolognaFishMD
Do this mean you saw someone who had it, or that you just saw the presentation of this case?
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Replying to @Dr_FarrisD @BolognaFishMD
that’s amazing, still. is most of what we need to live on the outer layer of the cortex or something?
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Replying to @DanielleFong @Dr_FarrisD
You find the critical/essential areas deeper in the brain. They also are the most "ancient" (evolutionarily) and most conserved (you find similar areas in many other species). Speaking very generally, the thinking is- If the change happens over time our brain adapts. ...
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... So, if brain tissue is pushed or compressed slowly over time (hydrocephalus or a tumor, for example) then our brain is plastic enough to compensate, at least to a degree. And there are some extreme examples of this.
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Replying to @BolognaFishMD @Dr_FarrisD
what’s weird to me is that we need the brainstem, we need the limbic system, but (almost?) all the tissue here is on the outer layers... amazing if it really can just progress slowly like this and you can end up with a functional human with just a big gap... really astonishing
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Replying to @DanielleFong @Dr_FarrisD
Without a doubt in my mind (pun, haha), the brain is the most complex organization of matter in the universe. It's weird af, and beyond.
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it is! all the computers on earth can’t simulate a single synapse accurately. something truly amazing is in our brains
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