Glenn, do you have info of modern day CT scans of such folks?

Glenn,
Do you have info on modern day CT scans of the types of people you
mentioned below? The article below is from 1981. Computed Tomography (CT)
imaging, also known as "CAT scanning" (Computed Axial Tomography), was
developed in the early to mid-1970s. Since its invention some 25 years
ago, CT imaging has seen massive advances in technology and clinical
performance. I'd like to know what modern day CT scans reveal about such
people's brains.

Also, I was wondering whether you believed such people were literal
walking miracles, akin to the Bible's miracle stories of talking animals,
or akin to Jesus' saying that he could make the stones speak?

Thanks,
Ed

"Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net> writes:
> "Well over 500 CT scans were performed on patients, some of
>whom were over 20 years of age. These included some who already
>occupied responsible positions in life, including senior nurses,
>university graduates and members of executive councils. Many
>were never suspected of having hydrocephalus, although looking
>back on their past history this diagnosis could have been made
>much earlier. They obviously had slow progressive hydrocephalus
>which did not detectably interfere with their life style. By the
>time they had a CT scan, some had such enormously dilated
>ventricles there was hardly any brain left above the level of the
>tentorium. They retained the midbrain cerebellum and pons but
>what was virtually missing was the part of the brain we attribute
>to superior intelligence ; the centres for the fin control of
>movements and the appreciation of visual and auditory stimuli.
> "The systematic CT scan study showed there were many older
>children and adults who had grossly dilated ventricles with very
>thin residual brain and yet did not suffer from physical defects
>and had normal intelligence. Some were outstandingly intelligent
>with IQs well above the 'bright normal' range. I can only
>presume hydrocephalus with only moderately raised intracranial
>pressure can slowly progress over many years to reach eventually
>extreme degrees without ever causing symptoms. It is possible
>that specific functions of the brain, such as the motor cortex,
>may be relocated elsewhere from early infancy onwards or that we
>do not need such a large quantity of brain and only need to use a
>very small part of it under normal circumstances." ~ John Lorber,
>"Is your Brain really Necessary?", Nursing Mirror, April 30,
>1981, p. 20

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Received on Sat Nov 6 00:13:36 2004