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Are brains necessary?

Dag Stenberg stenberg at cc.Helsinki.FI
Thu Mar 27 06:40:55 EST 1997


Dag Stenberg <stenberg at cc.Helsinki.FI> wrote:
> DrGG4 <drgg4 at aol.com> wrote:
> > I wonder who here is familiar with John Lorber's studies of people with
> > virtually no brains? Fully functioning adults with little more than a
> > millimeter of cortex and nothing other than huge ventricles beneath that.
> > How can this be possible? And why hasn't this attracted any attention in
> > the neuroscience community?

> As I recall this, there was one (1) case with atrophied brain, ...

And I was wrong, because there were 600 CT scans on hydrocephalus
patients, although one case was given as an example in the Science
commentary by Roger Lewin (Science 210:1232-1234, 1980).

Dag Stenberg




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