Is it possible to walk, talk, and live a normal life with half a brain? I don't mean a whole brain and only side only works. I mean if you had a whole brain and you took half out, would you still be able to be like everybody else and not have any side effects from having half a brain? I've heard that you'd be sevierly handycapped if you had half a brain damange. And another question is, is it possible to be born with half a brain? If it is possible for either questions to be just like anyone else with half a brain do you have any hard proof saying it's possible? Like any medical books or medical websites or somethin' of that nature? Any help would be great. Oh yeah, the reason why I'm asking is cause my aunt use to be a nurse, and I found out today that she was tellin' someone how I only had half a brain, and it's kinda weird that she'd go and say somethin' like that.
2006-10-02 15:20:50 · 2 answers · asked by ffasheepdog 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
And if you met me on the side of the road you wouldn't even be able to tell that anything was wrong with me... I might have a slight learning disability, and along with a slight talkin' disability, and my mom said thats caused from a blood clot I had in my brain when I was born, and she said it went away after time went by.
2006-10-02 15:22:46 · update #1
And I've also heard that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body or something like that...
2006-10-02 15:27:56 · update #2
I saw a program on UK television a few years ago that had found some people with huge areas of completely inactive brain tissue. It showed like that on brain scans. But they were getting along fine, and had never realised that all their thinking, remembering and acting was being controlled by a thin layer of active brain around a big inactive centre. So how much brain you've started with doesn't seem to matter.
2006-10-03 04:15:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your aunt's comment probably not meant to be taken literally. Sometimes I feel brainless, doesn't meant I don't have one. Don't worry about it.
2006-10-02 22:40:21 · answer #2 · answered by warriorwoman 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋