I must first apologies to whoever in the Conspiracy sent me this link, but its a neat one. (Chime in in the comments to remind me)
Kinda cool, and interesting given the wife is going in for EEG monitoring and an MRI today for further confirmation on how awesome her surgery went. Now I’ll note that she underwent an Anterior Temporal lobectotmy which probably removed about 80% of her right temporal lobe. Looks from the video this surgery removed about 90% of the whole HEMISPHERE! Got me looking for more.
You can see that her left arm is partially paralyzed, but she’s running, walking and even dancing.
Meanwhile the biggest side-effect of the surgery for the wife is it appears her memory is considerably better now. BTW as a tie-in all the talk of “Plasticity” I suspect is a reason why the surgery went as well as it. We have no idea when the tumor that caused all of this formed, but it very well could have been in her infancy, and structurally it isolated much of the tissue removed in the surgery from the rest of the brain. Whatever that tissue was destined for from the get-go got mapped to other parts of the brain, so when it was eventually removed, only the errant functions of the tissue (seizures) were missed.
Very neat stuff!
Glad to hear that your wife is doing well. It’s amazing how the brain seems to re-wire itself isn’t it?
Dude… if her memory got better, you’re screwed.
Nothing like a wife who can remember your misdeeds.. 🙂
Yeah well it came in more handy for her to remember our plans for the weekend, or where she left her purse, or if we actually OWN that DVD on sale at the store (Duplicate DVDs still in shink-wrap make great Christmas Presents!) or the conversation we had the other day, than it was useful for her to forget stupid shit I’ve done.
Plus most of the stupid shit I do is AWESOME!! 😀
Really amazing that the brain is so very adaptable. Glad to hear the Mrs is doing so well.