At 09:23 PM Friday 7/20/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: >http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12301&feedId=online-news_rss20 > >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 (see >image, right). > >"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," says Lionel >Feuillet, a neurologist at the Mediterranean University in Marseille, >France. > >Feuillet and his colleagues describe the case of this patient in The >Lancet. He is a married father of two children, and works as a civil >servant.
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