Thursday, June 21, 2007

hemispherectomy

Check this out!

Remember there was a grey's episode where they did this (i think so anyways) AND the little girl in the book The Poisonwood Bible only had a half a brain.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa011&articleID=BE96F947-E7F2-99DF-3EA94A4C4EE87581

Now don't tell me that's not cool. My only question is...if half your brain is gone and that empyy half fills with fluid, wouldn't you experience some balance issues with all that fluid shifting around...Just a thought!

2 comments:

Christie said...

it's so crazy that you can just do without half of your brain!

On another note, that's a part of speech pathology that I hadn't thought about! Interesting...

Jessica said...

OMG so there IS an episode that has this procedure on grey's anatomy. i wasn't making it up!! I saw the rerun of it on TV last night. Ironic huh?!