I know we should not believe in everything we see on tv, but I saw at show on tv about this boy whom had lost half of his brain during a car accident. He had about half of his brain removed and as its result, parcialy of his motors functions were lost. Because it was something that shocked me very much, I would like to know, if that is possible and if anyone saw that program too?
PS: I am aware that little is know about the brain's functions.
2006-06-28 19:17:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Each part of the brain handles a certain type of function. One part of the brain controls the motor skills, one takes control of the thinking and so on. It depends on which part of the brain was destroyed that determines what works on your whole body system. In other words, you can still think if that part of the brain wasn't lost. Think about a person who had a stroke on one side of his brain, they can still think, but can't talk or walk depending on what side of the brain they had the stroke.
2006-06-28 19:32:56 · answer #1 · answered by nannygoat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it is possible!
my husband had suffered a stroke two years ago and half of his brain ( the left part) is still dead - no function works! now he's half paralysed, no speak, write or read, he can not use his right hand and he walks with a cane, but he understand everything.
because he was a young, strong man the docotrs said that the vascular accident will have very bad effects: when the people is younger the stroke is more powerfull and the damages are huge!
now he's living only with the right part of his brain who take over all the activities ( as much as he can) of the whole body.
is' very hard but it could be real!
2006-06-29 00:18:14 · answer #2 · answered by leru_ro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, this happens a lot with folks who have epilepsy, when their brain takes so much damage from seizures over the years, eventually some of them will get to the point of needing brain surgery to remove the damaged tissue, and yes, once that is done their brains actually work *better* with the damaged half gone. :)
Also, my own mother suffered some serious brain damage in a car accident at the age of 13....she was hit by a drunk driver....she was a pedestrian. Her body flew *up* some 30 feet and then *slid* some 60 feet once she landed *face-first on the pavement*.
She was in a coma for three months if the stories my aunts tell me are correct....at first the doctors said she'd never come out of the coma. She did. Then the doctors said she'd never be able to walk or talk, and she did. Then they said she'd not have any intellectual function....she remembered who she was and was able to resume taking classes at school. Then the doctors said she'd likely suffer seizures and be crazy....
Well, they are professionals after all. O_o Doctors have to be right about something at some point or they wouldn't be doctors for too long....my mother did have problems, she did have seizures that her family was too poor to afford to treat, so she ended up self-medicating with alcohol (which ended up eventually killing her, of course) and tobacco (ditto). And she did spend much of her life being rather cold-blooded and distant emotionally.
But still, for a woman who was supposed to be the local Terri Schiavo, she did manage to get by, raise four kids (sort of), work for a while as an adult, and generally get more out of life with not a whole hell of a lot in the way of living brain tissue than most folks did with full brains. The woman had five holes in her skull from the accident and only four of them healed. The fifth and largest hole failed to heal when a major artery moved into that hole and started to impinge on her frontal lobes, whatever was left of them.
So yeah....people have enough brain tissue that they can function and get by on surprisingly little of it, at least so long as they are young. Even my mom started to get messed up though once she hit her late 40s and early 50s though, that is just aging and attrition for you.....and alcohol damage I must admit.
2006-06-28 19:46:38 · answer #3 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a show a couple years ago on the Discovery Health channel about children having to have a portion of their brains removed for seizures. Because they are children, the brain can adapt. Weird, I know.
2006-06-28 19:20:29 · answer #4 · answered by purelluk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-31 21:49:23 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible for someone to live with half of the brain. A little girl I know had half her brain taken out coz she always was having seziures... SO yes it is possible.
2006-06-28 21:27:20 · answer #6 · answered by Elmo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to live with large amounts of your brain damaged or missing. Even so it is possible to relearn things because you brain is somewhat plastic, it can form new routes to do old things. It's interesting because technically both sides of you brain are separate and can operate as so. Both side work together towards single goal.
2006-06-28 19:37:48 · answer #7 · answered by amish_renegade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it si possible i saw another program were a boy got shot on the head and half his brain was removed,
he was able to move and talk just not that well
but it is possible
2006-06-28 19:22:15 · answer #8 · answered by zooniga_32 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well in the early colonization of america those who disagreed with the government were lobotomized and that means the lower half of your brain of though is taken out. They couldn't think for themselves and they lived. So Yes, it depends on which unit though.
2006-06-29 07:28:31 · answer #9 · answered by rkjackal02 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah,did you see that movie about the man with two brains?He would have been better off with just a half-brain.
2006-06-28 19:26:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋