A friend of mine asked me if I knew anything about "an Englishman who had an
above average IQ and no brain." I told him he might have been thinking about
this fellow I had heard about in a psychbio class as an undergrad--- a guy with
a 120 IQ, honors math student at some college somewhere with an abnormally
large head. They decided to give him a CAT scan to see if there really was
something to this big brains = high intelligence, only to find that his large
head was almost entirely filled with CSF. His ventricles had compressed his
cortex into a 1 mm thick layer, according to the prof.
Now, has this case really been documented, or is it just urban myth? I think I
remember seeing something about this case on the 'net some months ago--- did
anybody save the post? And did it have citations? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Apologies for the wasted band-width, folks...
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Yukiharu "Yuki" Hadeishi - <yhadeish at biomed.med.yale.edu>
The Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program will have
absolutely nothing to do with any of my opinions...
