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Synonyms and keywords: Water on the brain

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International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF), the umbrella organisation for national spina bifida and hydrocephalus organisations
Hydrocephalus Association at hydroassoc.org, US
Information on fetal hydrocephalus at fetalhydrocephalus.com
Is the brain really necessary? at flatrock.org.nz
Living with congenital hydrocephalus at Associated Content

Surgery on Chinese boy's deformed skull

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-One interesting case involving a person with past hydrocephalus was a 44-year old French man, whose brain had been reduced to little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue, due to the buildup of fluid in his skull. The man, who had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away fluid (which was removed when he was 14), went to a hospital after he had been experiencing mild weakness in his left leg.
-[[Image:DWS empty head.jpg|thumb|200px|DWS: All of the black in the middle is water and the brain matter is the rim of white along the outside of the skull.  This is a screen shot from a ''Fox News'' report.]]  In July of 2007, ''Fox News'' quoted Dr. Lionel Feuillet of Hopital de la Timone in Marseille as saying: "The images were most unusual... the brain was virtually absent."<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290610,00.html "Man with Almost No Brain Has Led Normal Life"], ''Fox News'' ([[2007-07-25]]).  Also see  [http://www.physorg.com/news104143971.html "Tiny brain, normal life; French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life -- but with an extraordinarily tiny brain"], ''Physorg.com'' ([[2007-07-20]]);  [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070722203858.htm "Tiny Brain, Normal Life"], ''ScienceDaily'' ([[2007-07-24]]).</ref>  When doctors learned of the man's medical history, they did a computed tomography (CT) scan and another type of scan called [[magnetic resonance imaging]] (MRI), and were astonished to see "massive enlargement" of the [[lateral ventricles]] in the skull. Intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average score of 100 but not considered mentally retarded or disabled, either.
-Remarkably, the man was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant, leading a normal life, despite having little brain tissue. "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 pediatric 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."<ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070719.wbrain0719/BNStory/Science/home Man Lives Normal Life Despite Having Abnormal Brain]</ref>
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