He is missing 90% of the brain and he lives perfectly (3 photos)

In 2016, a man came to a French hospital and was worried about the pain in my leg. The survey showed an absolutely incredible thing.





In a 44-year-old man, the skull was full of fluid, and from the brain only the thinnest layer of brain tissue remained. He did a brain scan for the first time and did not even suspect that something was wrong with him.



Doctors assured that the man lived and lives quite normally. life. His IQ is 75. This is slightly below average, but it just means he's just not smart. Man socially fit, working as a civil servant, married and father of two children.

Scientists zealously undertook to investigate the patient and came to the conclusion that that his brain was slowly being destroyed in a process called dropsy of the brain, or, in scientific terms, hydrocephalus. Diagnosis the man was put in as a teenager and had a bypass, to restore the movement of cerebrospinal fluid.

But at the age of 14, the shunt was removed and the brain began to gradually die off, as the fluid continued to accumulate in it.

It is amazing how, in general, with such an anomaly, a person continued to live, be conscious, in an adequate state and work.



Scientists have been trying to figure out the phenomenon of consciousness for more than a decade. It is already known that it is created on the basis of neurons in the brain. But how then lived this Frenchman, in whose head almost all these neurons.

They suggested the following:

consciousness is connected to the visual cortex

consciousness can be associated with certain areas brain. For example, the claustrum is a thin, irregular plate that consists of gray matter and is located under the cerebral cortex in depth of white matter.

But then a Frenchman came with a lack of 90% of the brain and disputes among scientists broke out with renewed vigor. It turns out that we do not know again all the possibilities of the brain.