Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In theory, you wouldn’t be who you are without your brain. But when a 44-year-old Frenchman visited the doctor and got a brain scan, the results seemed to show he didn’t have a brain at all! Or, at least, not the kind anyone had seen before. At 10% of its normal size due to the Lateral Ventricles filling up with cerebrospinal fluid, he still appeared to have been living a normal life. All of the important bits were still in tact which just goes to show how adaptable the human body can be.
In theory, you wouldn’t be who you are without your brain. But when a 44-year-old Frenchman visited the doctor and got a brain scan, the results seemed to show he didn’t have a brain at all! Or, at least, not the kind anyone had seen before. At 10% of its normal size due to the Lateral Ventricles filling up with cerebrospinal fluid, he still appeared to have been living a normal life. All of the important bits were still in tact which just goes to show how adaptable the human body can be.
