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Girl With Half a Brain Retains Full Vision

Posted July 21, 2009 10:15 AM

From New Scientist - Online News:

A 10-year old girl born with half of her cerebral cortex missing sees perfectly because of a massive reorganisation of the brain circuits involved in vision, a new study finds. "It was quite a surprise to see that something like this is possible," says Lars Muckli, a neuroscientist at the University of Glasgow, UK, who was part of the team that imaged the girl's brain.

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Re: Girl With Half a Brain Retains Full Vision

07/21/2009 12:34 PM

Lucky girl! Even though she's eminently qualified for a management position with its "half a brain" requirement, the fact that she actually has full vision fortunately disqualifies her from that horrible fate.

The human brain is a marvelous gray lump of electrochemical cheese, ain't it?

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