Gabrielle Welle-Strand - Borgestadklinikken

Brain Not Necessary for French Civil Service Worker
• A French civil service worker went to the hospital to have his leg
examined. When asked about his medical history, he told doctors
that, as an infant, he’d had a tube stuck in his brain to drain
excess fluid
• MRI: His head was full of water; his brain amounted to, as
Reuters described, "little more than a sheet of actual brain
tissue."
• He was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil
servant," Dr. Lionel Feuillet and colleagues at the Universite de
la
Mediterranee in Marseille wrote in a letter to the Lancet medical
journal. [...]
• "What I find amazing to this day is how the brain can deal with
something which you think should not be compatible with life,"
commented Dr. Max Muenke, a paediatric brain defect specialist
at the National Human Genome Research Institute.