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From: werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: "Is a Brain Really Necessary?"
Message-ID: <1303@aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 16:32:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 16:32:49 1987
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In article <419@hubcap.UUCP>, beede@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Beede) writes:
> > 
> > There are also poeple with hollow brains, hydrocephalics whose brain is
>
> > only 5% (!!!) of the normal brain mass.
> 
> I have seen mention of this before, but never in what I would call a
> reliable source.


	Only part of a reference.

	There is one particular case of a male physics graduate
student in England sometime in the last decade.  He had a 116 IQ.
He presented to clinic complaining of headaches, and was given
one of those newfangled CAT scans, which revealed this 1 cm thick
cortex.
	The patient was reported in a reputable British medical
journal in a letter headlined by the fanciful title:

	"Is a Brain Really Necessary?"

	A Medline search might pin it down further.
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 3 years down, 4 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                      "If I don't see you soon, I'll see you later."