People who live do not need ... brains

Medical history has confirmed hundreds of people living with empty heads literally. They have no brain or brain that has been completely destroyed, but still lives and works like ordinary people.

The French journal Lancet recently published a strange case: Dr. Lionel Feullet of Timone Hospital (Marseille) was amazed to find a 44-year-old man living normally like any other person with a set The brain is so small that there is no. The married man and these two children were hospitalized because he felt his left leg was weak. After CT and MRI, the doctor found his ventricles enlarged, while the brain, ie gray matter and white matter, was nowhere to be seen.

The patient had a history of cerebral fluid from 6 months of age. So, maybe for a very long time, this person lived with an empty head. Dr. Feuillet said: " The lack of brains has not hindered his development!".

(Photo: Health & Life) What makes people notice is that the strange cases similar to the above are not too rare. In 1935, during the course of treatment for a Sheffield University math student who was often ill, Professor Lorber found that he had no brain at all when taking a CAT - scan. The two right hemispheres should fill the skull with a depth of 4.5 cm, but this student only has less than 1 mm of brain tissue on top of the spine. I don't understand how he still lives normally, IQ is 126, his academic performance is excellent, and attained the honorary degree in mathematics. In 1970, the young man died at the age of 35. When autopsy, doctors once again confirmed that he had no brain.

Professor Lorber said, he has met many cases of people without hemispheres but still wise as usual. In some people, although the brain is in the form of " not found ", their IQ still reaches 120.

Some people still live even when the brain is seriously damaged, which seems to be "only in movies" . According to archived documents, in 1636, King Ludwig of Bavaria ordered the execution of Dietze von Schaumburg and four accomplices for rebellion. In the knight style, the king gave Dietze a final wish. Surprisingly, Dietze demanded that all death row inmates be lined up, each separated by 8 steps and begged to die first. Dietze insists that even if he does not have a head, he can still run past the other death row inmates, and if he can do that, ask the king to spare his fellow soldiers' lives.

The king agreed. Dietze knelt down and put his head on the cutting board. After falling, Dietze gets up and runs in front of the dumbfounded horror of death row inmates. Dietze just collapsed as he ran past the last person in the line. The king made the promise, forgiving the dead for the rest.

New York Medical Journal (USA) published in 1888 also described the strange story that happened to a sailor who drove the river. This man climbed on the mast to tie the ligament, unaware that the train was about to skim over the bridge. The sharp roar as sharp as a knife had severed 5-6 cm of the upper part of the sailor. He was taken to an emergency hospital.

The amazing thing is, while the doctors were out of hope, suddenly he opened his eyes, asking what had happened. After that, he left the operating table and asked to return to the ship to work. Surprised, the doctors decided to reconnect the severed head to him even though the brain was severely damaged.

After 2 months of treatment, the sailor felt completely recovered and returned to the ship to work. It seemed that the head that had lost most of his brain did not affect his work. Occasionally, he just felt light-headed, and normally he was perfectly healthy. It wasn't until 26 years after the accident that he was paralyzed with his left arm and leg.

Why do some people without brains or suddenly lose their brain still live as normal people for a long time? Is their body controlled by another system? There are many ways to explain these strange cases.

One theory is that in the normal brain there is a large amount of "preventive" function, just a few remaining cells can help people perform the entire function instead of both hemispheres The brain is missing. A similar hypothesis suggests that humans use only a very small part of the brain - perhaps about 10%.

According to some scientists, the human body has two control systems. A system of brain, nervous system (using nerve cells to transmit data). The other system relies on the endocrine gland, using special hormones or biological agents to transmit information throughout the body.

Idealists believe that in addition to consciousness, people have souls. It is a type of "archive " that contains a program that takes care of the body's functions, from nervous system activity to different processes in the cell. The AND molecule holds information that creates this program. Consciousness is only the result of the operation of that program, in other words, the complex work of the soul. Many expressions related to the concept of the soul have been reflected and the phenomenon of a person without a brain or a brain that is still alive is an example.