The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 21:54 (5394 days ago) @ David Turell

After reading the story more in depth I noticed that it said she was born with half the brain missing... that makes it a little less earth-shaking... I understand that the neurologists considered it unexpected, but even in my own case I regenerated my tonsils. It doesn't seem so shocking then to think that the brain can do the same thing.
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> Yes it is very shocking. She regenerated nothing, but rerouted her dendrites and set up new functions for new neurons, ending up with total vision in half a brain. Tonsils are fairly simple lymphatic tissue and have a tendency to regenerate. Mine did also.
> To understand normal connections, the optic nerves cross, the outer nerves going to the same side of the brain and the inner nerves of the x-cross going to the other hemisphere. What happened to her is astounding. - I guess it is my ignorance in the area that makes me less astounded here. The process of learning is similar. What it tells me here is that the tissue is able to recognize that there is something that it should be doing but isn't, and the demand for this function compels the tissue to "make it happen." - By no means am I trying to suggest that this isn't cool or isn't exciting or isn't important--it is all three of those. Its just in the light of our burgeoning knowledge of stem cells it doesn't seem *in principle* to be outside of the realm of possibility--which clearly it isn't. It also suggests that the model that neurologists and developmental biologists have followed needs to be rewritten because it's incorrect.

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