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A remarkable story 
“....A man with unusually tiny brain lives entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by fluid build-up in his skull. Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed 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 . "It is hard for me to say exactly the percentage of reduction of the brain, since we did not use software to measure its volume. But visually, it's more than 50% to 75% reduction," source: Lionel Feuillet, neurologist at the Mediterranean University in Marseille, France.
“...Feuillet and colleagues describe the case of the married father of two in the Lancet. He was working as a civil servant and was not retarded in any way. The man went to hospital after experiencing mild weakness in left leg. Feuillet's staff took medical history, learning that, as an infant, he had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away hydrocephalus - water on the brain. Shunt was removed at the age of 14....”
“....Researchers checked the condition of his brain using computed tomography (CT) scanning technology and another type of scan called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They were astonished to see "massive enlargement" of 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...” http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html
“....A man with unusually tiny brain lives entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by fluid build-up in his skull. Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed 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 . "It is hard for me to say exactly the percentage of reduction of the brain, since we did not use software to measure its volume. But visually, it's more than 50% to 75% reduction," source: Lionel Feuillet, neurologist at the Mediterranean University in Marseille, France.
“...Feuillet and colleagues describe the case of the married father of two in the Lancet. He was working as a civil servant and was not retarded in any way. The man went to hospital after experiencing mild weakness in left leg. Feuillet's staff took medical history, learning that, as an infant, he had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away hydrocephalus - water on the brain. Shunt was removed at the age of 14....”
“....Researchers checked the condition of his brain using computed tomography (CT) scanning technology and another type of scan called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They were astonished to see "massive enlargement" of 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...” http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html
