Man With Tiny Brain Shocks Doctors

New Scientist ^ | 7-20-2007 | Lancet

[Kirkwood]

Much of the loss here seems to be in the white matter and not the gray matter. White matter is predominantly axonal tracts that tie in the different gray matter regions. So a person with this defect can think and hear and see normally or nearly so, but might have considerable difficulty in associating sensory inputs with specific memories, or in making the connections among the senses and their higher level processing in order to form those memories. So for example, a person with this kind of defect might see numbers or hear numbers spoken to him, but have difficulty in using the numbers in a math problem. On the other hand, this person might do well in math when numbers are internally generated in his mind. It is hard to predict specific behavior though just from images of the brain - this is a generalization based on anatomy. The brain is remarkable in its ability to adapt.

[TexasTransplant]

Strange as it may seem, I would really like to meet this guy and try to convince him not to go into Politics, we have enough brainless wannabe leaders there already (If that is
Senator Bidens Brain Scan I retract the I wanna meet part)

TT

[keepitreal]

So true!

John Kerry on dog fighting:

“Kerry added that he planned to introduce legislation aimed at eliminating dogfighting, which he said is illegal but still far too common.”

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6819205

[JMJJR]

[po]

Those were my thoughts when I saw the post, they used her brain scan to “justify” murdering her.

can’t [/po] !

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

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.

I thought John Kerry was older than that.

[KarlInOhio]

No, he would have rock hard liver tissue filling the gap instead of a liquid.

[ronnie raygun]

SHOCK?, I could name plenty that suffer from this dibilitating disease: Kerry, Ried,Pelosi, Ted, OK 99.9% of the democratic party! Lets throw in a few lapdog GOP’ers for good measure. This guy has plenty of company when it comes to small minds.

[Titan Magroyne]

I’m more concerned with what this says about us with supposedly normal size brains.
Yowch! (Good point.)

[Westlander]

The images (slices) shown for comparison are not of the same area of the brain. It’s like interpreting an elbow x-ray for a fractured wrist.

[Theo]

Perhaps! :-)

[neodad]

This guy has plenty of company when it comes to small minds.

I think this guy is my ex-wife's eHarmony match.

[FreeManWhoCan]

When he moves his head, does it “slush”?

[Tribune7]

Man With Tiny Brain Shocks Doctors

But Sicko looks like a flop so the docs will get over it.

[dforest]

I have to jump in and agree with you. I wonder? Shows you that science is always subject to interpretation.

Humans, no matter how bright they they think they are, really do not know much.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"He better not travel to Florida. He might end up executed by state-ordered starvation/dehydration..."

I thought that as soon as I saw the CT scan. It looks like Mrs. Schiavo's scan. Which makes me wonder whether she indeed heard, understood, and/or experienced everything that was done to her when they were killing her.

[Tribune7]

and works as a civil servant.

I can see it.

[GOPJ]

Would Joe Wilson be categorized as a civil servant?

As Jeff Chandler would say, "it's a no-brainer"

[Diggity]

Civil Servant LOL. Works for the government. LOL

[tutstar]

ping...

[Williams]

African Grays?