Brains

IN the article "The Woman with a Hole in Her Brain" by Helen Thomson, it tells the unexpected discovery made by a Chinese doctor in one of their patients. The 24-year-old woman went her entire life without knowing that she was born without her cerebellum.Without that portion of her brain, she was expected to have terrible fine motor skills, epilepsy, movement disorders, and other problems, but she only has a slightly slurred pronunciation and very mild motor deficiency.

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The midbrain controls walking, sleeping and other reflexes so without it affects those reflexes very much. There is a birth defect called hydranencephaly which is the absence of varying amounts of the cerebral hemispheres. It is possible to live and survive without the midbrain. According to this article, Trevor Waltrip lived for 12 years with only his brainstem.