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, developed
due to hydrocephalus over a long time and causing very slight functional
impairment (the implication being that there was time for adaptation).
And yes, this did attract attention in the neuroscience community,
though it caused no revolution in concepts.
Dag Stenberg
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