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Shirosaki

Shirosaki

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WARNING: Contains Very Disturbing Images (Bottom Links).

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Sharon Parker, a woman who as a baby suffered from hydrocephalus; water on the brain.

It's very hard to explain so I'll post the link

http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/mysterious-brain.html

Basically, fluids build in the ventricles in the brain instead of going to the surface to coat between the skull and cortex of the brain. This pushes the brain outwards against the skull, destroying a lot of brain-function. In babies, the skull is quite soft so that the head can grow as it gets older. Because of this, the brain being pushed outwards can expan the skull quite drastically.

Sharon was very lucky as her brain took up the space in the posterior of her skull, and her frontal lobe narrowly escaped damage by being pressed flat against the skull.

Normal Brain Scan:

normal-brain.jpg

Hydrocephalus Brain Scan:

sharon-brain.jpg

Normal Skull:

human_Skull_Model_CH-S2_m.jpg

Hydrocephalus Skull:

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Here's a few pictures of babies who were not so fortunate with hydrocephalus:

http://runkle-science.wikispaces.com/file/view/url.jpeg/30637266/url.jpeg

http://www.articleslounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Hydrocephalus.jpg

http://hydrocephalusfoundation.org/wp-content/gallery/hydrocephalus-babies/hydrocephalus kid 25.jpg
 
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WHY DID YOU POST THIS!? OH GOD!
WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN!!!
 
The last one was mildly...disturbing. though I find it interesting about that lady, and how she surpassed what doctors thought she would be able to do. She's smarter, and lasted longer than what they thought. It's funny. awesome for her though, obviously she has the part of her brain to help her with children and giving birth. :) cool! I like!
 
It gives the idea of plasticity being a property of the brain - it can adapt to change. For example, there's cases where people have been paralysed down one side of their body because one of their hemisphere's has been damaged. However, within a few weeks some people's brains adapt and they slowly but surely gain mobility again.
 
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my moms a geneticist. i'm immune to being shocked by pictures of developmental deformity considering the pictures i saw regularly while growing up.

yeah...in high school my friend and i used to go through her books and we stumbled across one which we named "football baby". had no arms or legs, and an expanded ribcage. i'm ashamed of how funny football baby was back then, and i'm even more ashamed that the visual i get of throwing him like a football is still hilarious enough to me to force a grin.

just the thought of how snugly your fingers would fit in that ribcage of his... i should probably stop talking about this now.

(i refuse to amend the name to american football baby. get over it.)
 
cheezMcNASTY said:
my moms a geneticist. i'm immune to being shocked by pictures of developmental deformity considering the pictures i saw regularly while growing up.

yeah...in high school my friend and i used to go through her books and we stumbled across one which we named "football baby". had no arms or legs, and an expanded ribcage. i'm ashamed of how funny football baby was back then, and i'm even more ashamed that the visual i get of throwing him like a football is still hilarious enough to me to force a grin.

just the thought of how snugly your fingers would fit in that ribcage of his... i should probably stop talking about this now.

(i refuse to amend the name to american football baby. get over it.)
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Warning, disturbing image etc.

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/d/d7/1279560740427.jpg
 
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