{"id":215504,"date":"2014-04-19T01:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/19\/sagrasa-sixpenceee-if-you-thought-the-post\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:16:10","slug":"sagrasa-sixpenceee-if-you-thought-the-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/19\/sagrasa-sixpenceee-if-you-thought-the-post\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-215504 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/19\/sagrasa-sixpenceee-if-you-thought-the-post\/attachment\/215505\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"57\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3on1ziJw01s1vn29o1_400-150x57.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/19\/sagrasa-sixpenceee-if-you-thought-the-post\/attachment\/215506\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3on1ziJw01s1vn29o2_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3on1ziJw01s1vn29o2_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3on1ziJw01s1vn29o2_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sagrasa.tumblr.com\/post\/82946706417\/sixpenceee-if-you-thought-the-post-on-twins\" target=\"_blank\">sagrasa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sixpenceee.com\/post\/82032864074\/if-you-thought-the-post-on-twins-sharing\" target=\"_blank\">sixpenceee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you thought the post on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sixpenceee.com\/post\/81938052590\/krista-and-tatiana-hogan-are-craniopagus-twins\" target=\"_blank\">twins sharing consciousness<\/a> was awesome, wait until you hear this.<\/p>\n<p>A 44-year-old French man one day went to the trip to the doctor\u2019s because he felt a pain in his left leg. He\u2019s a married man with two kids and a steady job. <\/p>\n<p>Doctor\u2019s found that he had hydrocephalus as a child (when your brain is filled with fluids) so they decided to run some brain scans. <\/p>\n<p>What they found was that the majority of his head was filled with fluid. Over time, the buildup caused his lateral ventricles to swell so much that his brain had been flattened to a thin sheet. <\/p>\n<p>Doctors estimated that his brain mass had been reduced by<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>at most 70%, affecting the areas in charge of motion, language, emotion, and, well, everything.<\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, he was fine. While his IQ was only 75, he wasn\u2019t mentally challenged. He held a steady job, raised a family, and didn\u2019t have trouble interacting with others. <\/p>\n<p>Over time, his brain had adapted to all that pressure, and even though he had fewer neurons that most, Jacques was still a fully functional human being.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors drained the fluid and while his brain is much smaller now, he is still a healthy individual with a normal life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html#.U0MoMlGwJC4\" target=\"_blank\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don\u2019t think neuroplasticity is wicked incredible, you can go away!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sagrasa: sixpenceee: If you thought the post on\u00a0twins sharing consciousness was awesome, wait until you hear this. A 44-year-old French man one day went to the trip to the doctor\u2019s because he felt a pain in his left leg. He\u2019s a married man with two kids and a steady job. Doctor\u2019s found that he had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/19\/sagrasa-sixpenceee-if-you-thought-the-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[185,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215507,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215504\/revisions\/215507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}