Tiny brain no obstacle to French civil servant

[Voegelin]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by a fluid buildup in his skull, French researchers reported on Thursday . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_brain_tiny

Yahoo/Reuters is becoming quite creative in finding ways to get readers to click in to read the full text

 

[TheReasoner]

Reminds me of this:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...75BC0A961958260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=1

 

[Phylogeny]

Fascinating. I love how versatile the human brain can be. This guy's brain shrunk yet the brain tissue managed to compensate for the smaller surface area.

 

[Btriss]

Reminds me of the irregularities discovered in Einstein's brain structure -- subsequent to his brain's - stranger than fiction - discovery in 1978 (preserved in mason jars) stored for decades in the basement of the pathologist who'd removed it after Einstein's death,.

The Sylvian fissure was partially absent from Einstein's brain. Researchers at McMaster University believe this may have enabled neurons in this part of his brain to communicate better. "This unusual brain anatomy…(the missing part of the Sylvian fissure)… may explain why Einstein thought the way he did,"said Professor Sandra Witelson who led the research published in the Lancet. Einstein himself claimed that he thought through images rather than verbally.

(Sorry -- I don't have the board's prerequisite post count to include a link)