On Oct 13, 6:09 am, <charlesgrif... from mypostoffice.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello Neur-Sci members...
>> I'm writing a book which involves, among other things, the brain/mind issue.
>> Some 30 years ago I remember a report (possibly in the New Scientist) about a maths? student at the University of Birmingham, UK, who, as I recall, passed his exams, but then became unwell. An x-ray found that he had only a cortex, and very little or no other brain matter. I remember that the report contained what seems to have been the x-ray picture of a more or less empty head.
>> I moved house some 25 years ago, and the article has got hopelessly lost.
>> Can anybody help me, please? What I would like most would be an ecopy of the original article. Failing that, any pukka information or route to investigate.
>> Thanks very much indeed for your time.
>> All best wishes Chas Griffin
A little more recently:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html
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Joe
