Ignore my crappy figures in the post below. Through PZ, I found actual CT scans of Schiavo’s brain.
There is also commentary on Alas, a blog about them.
Ignore my crappy figures in the post below. Through PZ, I found actual CT scans of Schiavo’s brain.
There is also commentary on Alas, a blog about them.
I agree with your words, but showing the picture/scan..if that’s to further the case that “there’s not much there”? I am not as sure about that.
I have seen at least one pic/scan of a perfectly normal adult woman’s brain, autopsied after death (unrelated causes) and she had a an odd, undetected “condition” where her cerebral ventricles were enormous, pushing most of the brain up against the skull wall. It looked like an empty shell.
yet she was, apparently, normal in all regards.
The brain is *extremely* plastic, I guess is the point.
(Of course, in Schiavo’s case, there was no appearance of normality whatsoever.)
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