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Child With Missing Cerebellum
Shows Power of Human Spirit Editor’s note. The following is a blog entry from Wesley Smith (here) followed by a few additional comments from me. A child born without a cerebellum is learning to walk. From the story: A three-year-old boy has baffled doctors after he has started learning to walk, despite missing a key part of his brain. Chase Britton was born prematurely and an MRI scan at the age of one revealed he was completely missing his cerebellum – the part which controls motor skills, balance and emotions. The little boy, who is legally blind, also has no pons – part of the brain stem that regulates basic functions including breathing and sleeping. But instead of being unable to carry out tasks like sitting up or crawling, Chase has forced experts to rethink how the brain functions. His mother Heather Britton told AOL News: ‘We call him the Little Gremlin. He loves to play tricks on people. His goal in life is to make people smile. ‘No one had ever seen it before. And then we’d go to the neurologists and they’d say, “that’s impossible, he has the MRI of a vegetable”.’ ... |
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What Our Readers Are Saying By Dave Andrusko It is not necessarily a particularly accurate barometer (because there are lots of alternative explanations), but when you write for a living you often can't help but gauge what you've composed by the level of reader response. By that standard, last Friday's and yesterday's blogs entries were particularly well received. Let me just reference three of the stories that generated buzz. It has taken a while--my guess is that many people were shell-shocked--but the gravity of the alleged crimes and the level of moral turpitude on display in the slaughter of aborted babies born alive and then killed when scissors were used to sever their spines is just now really taking hold. One reader wrote to thank me for the excerpts we're running daily. Others--well, you can tell you are corresponding with a pro-lifer for typically they tied their indignation together with a determination to do something about it. People are inquiring how they can get involved in their communities to "protect life." Several people wrote to inquire about the first Smartphone-based commercial ultrasound system were discussed yesterday (here). They instantly recognized the potentially revolutionary impact of what is, in fact, a mobile ultrasound system. |
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January 2011 NRL News
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