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Thank you. There is some stuff in post that is somewhat useful, but the conviction of the statements is a bit much. Nothing in the brain is simple, and most of
by Balgair 8y ago
Thank you.
There is some stuff in post that is somewhat useful, but the conviction of the statements is a bit much. Nothing in the brain is simple, and most of neuroscience is in it's infancy today. Dandy-Walker syndrome is an especially extreme, but illustrative, case of how strange the brain can be on the inside, yet present as normal on the outside[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy%E2%80%93Walker_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy%E2%80%93Walker_syndrome
- solipsism 8y agoIn the majority of individuals with Dandy–Walker malformation, signs and symptoms caused by abnormal brain development are present at birth or develop within the first year of life Doesn't seem like "normal" presentation to me.
- Balgair 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus#Exceptional_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocephalus#Exceptional_case "The person was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant, leading an at least superficially normal life, despite having enlarged ventricles with a decreased volume of brain tissue. "What I find amazing to this day is how the brain can deal with something which you think should not be compatible with life", commented Dr. Max Muenke, a pediatric brain-defect specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute. "If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side.""