Re: [EMS-L] Tiny brain no obstacle to French civil servant

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In a message dated 7/20/2007 2:44:34 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

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Is this one of Bledsoe's jokes?? LOL

I had the same thought but apparently not so.

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In a message dated 7/20/2007 5:32:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

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I was waiting for a firefighter joke to come out,

Give it time give it time

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He's being under utilized. He could come over here and be elected

President.

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> I was waiting for a firefighter joke to come out,

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Somewhere, there's a joke involving this.... French and civil servant.

Is this one of Bledsoe's jokes?? LOL

-Wes Ogilvie

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Tiny brain no obstacle to French civil servant

Thu Jul 19, 10:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live an

entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by a fluid buildup in his

skull, French researchers reported on Thursday.

Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber

called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more

than a thin 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.

The man went to a hospital after he had mild weakness in his left leg. When

Feuillet's staff took his medical history, they learned he had had a shunt

inserted into his head to drain away hydrocephalus -- water on the brain --

as an infant.

The shunt was removed when he was 14.

So the researchers did a computed tomography (CT) scan and another type of

scan called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They were astonished to see

" massive enlargement " of the lateral ventricles -- usually tiny chambers that

hold the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain.

Intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average score of

100 but not considered mentally retarded or disabled, either.

" 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.

" If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades,

the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be

done by the part that is pushed to the side, " added Muenke, who was not

involved in the case.

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I was waiting for a firefighter joke to come out,

Small brain and still functional

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Tiny brain no obstacle to French civil servant

Thu Jul 19, 10:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man with an unusually tiny brain managed to

live an

entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by a fluid buildup in

his

skull, French researchers reported on Thursday.

Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled

chamber

called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little

more

than a thin 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.

The man went to a hospital after he had mild weakness in his left leg.

When

Feuillet's staff took his medical history, they learned he had had a

shunt

inserted into his head to drain away hydrocephalus -- water on the brain

--

as an infant.

The shunt was removed when he was 14.

So the researchers did a computed tomography (CT) scan and another type

of

scan called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They were astonished to

see

" massive enlargement " of the lateral ventricles -- usually tiny chambers

that

hold the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain.

Intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average

score of

100 but not considered mentally retarded or disabled, either.

" 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.

" If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over

decades,

the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally

be

done by the part that is pushed to the side, " added Muenke, who was not

involved in the case.

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