<html> Is Your Brain Really Necessary? John Lorber, a British neurologist, claims that some patients are more normal than would be inferred from their brain scans . . . . There's a young student at this university," says Lorber, "who has an IQ of 126, has gained a first-class honors degree in mathematics, and is socially completely normal. And yet the boy has virtually no brain." The student's physician at the university noticed that the youth had a slightly larger than normal head, and so referred him to Lorber, simply out of interest. "When we' did a brainscan on him," Lorber recalls, "we saw that instead of the normal 4.5-centimeter thickness of brain tissue between the ventricles and the cortical surface, there was just a thin layer of mantle measuring a millimeter or so. His cranium is filled mainly with cerebrospinal fluid." . . . . <a href="http://www.enidreed.com/serv01.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.enidreed.com/serv01.htm</a> At 12:43 PM 11/13/01, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> < <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.newscientist.com</a> > "Magic ingredient" for neural stem cells revealed  17:03   13  November  01 Emma Young, San Diego</blockquote> "All we wanted was something worth it, worth the labor, worth the wait  Then they take you up on the mountain, you see too late  . . .  Look around, you must be joking, all that way for this?" <x-tab>        </x-tab>-Ian Telfer </html>