[QUOTE=Bomimo;41951964]And the more deformed you skull will be once fully grown.[/QUOTE]
Uhhh...your skull doesn't form around your brain, it forms the same shape unless you have some defect that tells it otherwise. Kinda how our brains evolved to what they are, our skulls being bigger.
Unless you mean from the surgery, in which case you're still not right. Unless the surgeons fucked up your skull should develop normally.
It's sad that old shit like this still makes the news. Splitting the corpus callosum in 2 is the last case scenario for aiding someone suffering from seizures.
Oh, are people actually talking brain shit? Lets separate the truths from fiction
[QUOTE=The First 11'er;41946484]I'm no doctor, could someone explain how this would affect performing daily tasks and body functions?[/QUOTE]
Depends on your age really. The younger you are, the lower the impact. I think this isn't all that different from a lobotomy.
[QUOTE=tdnoob;41952055]Another video showing the results of disconecting the 2 halves of the brain from each other
[video=youtube;8KmJ7-pmNhw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KmJ7-pmNhw&feature=youtu.be[/video][/QUOTE]
This is different though, since disconnecting the halves is a lobotomy and creates a vastly different situation. What they do instead here is remove a half so that essentially one part of your brain ends up handling both your left and right sides.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;41948211]That's not how it works.
The eye opposite to the hemisphere removed will be 100% blind (ie. 50% vision loss) due to the fact that eyes are connected to the front of each opposite hemisphere of the brain. And visual information is processed in the back of both hemispheres of the brain, so even if one hemisphere could do double duty, the optic nerve is severed and can't provide any information.[/QUOTE]
In adults, yes. In young children, only temporarily. There are people with only half of a brain that can see through both eyes because it happened to them early on in development.
My brother actually had a small part of his brain removed in his teens because of seizures. He's missing the upper-right part of his eyesight now, but the seizures stopped, so at least he can lead a normal life.
In order for cannabis to be used as an effective treatment for younger patients, the more medicinal compounds in it need to be isolated from the more psychoactive compounds such as THC, which is the main stuff that gets you high. The second most abundant chemical in weed is cannabidiol (CBD), which is not as psychoactive, is more sedative, and is the one with the most medical applications. The species Cannabis Indica is unique in that it has a high CBD to THC ratio compared to Cannabis Sativa, which is the other way around. An edible extract such as baked goods or tinctures could be made from an indica strain with a high amount of CBD that could be used as an effective medicine, which I believe at the levels needed to treat certain disorders wouldn't really impact someone's mental abilities/physical development that much.
"Compared with THC, cannabidiol is less psychoactive, and is considered to have a wider scope of medical applications than THC,[4] including to epilepsy,[5] multiple sclerosis spasms,[6] anxiety disorders, Bipolar Disorder,[7] schizophrenia,[8] nausea, convulsion and inflammation, as well as inhibiting cancer cell growth.[9]"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol[/url]
Sorry just wanted to shed some light in the weed argument. Surgically removing half the brain would be a last resort to me, I would try any other type of medicine/treatment to help with the seizures before going with the operation.
[QUOTE=NoobSauce;41946880]I'm starting to think you're trolling at this point.
No one can be this dumb.[/QUOTE]
Wow. This guy actually has a very valid point, and it's whizzing over everyone's head.
He's saying that if in theory someone with half their brain gone could become as mentally agile as someone with a full brain, IN TERMS OF DENSITY the brain that they DO have left is twice as "smart" as the average person, because they're getting the same results with half the brain matter.
Imagine you had a glass of salt water, with the salt representing "intelligence". If you take half the water out, but all the salt remains in the glass, the water left in the glass is twice as "salty" as the original glass of water.
[QUOTE=greendevil;41955038]Wow. This guy actually has a very valid point, and it's whizzing over everyone's head.
He's saying that if in theory someone with half their brain gone could become as mentally agile as someone with a full brain, IN TERMS OF DENSITY the brain that they DO have left is twice as "smart" as the average person, because they're getting the same results with half the brain matter.
Imagine you had a glass of salt water, with the salt representing "intelligence". If you take half the water out, but all the salt remains in the glass, the water left in the glass is twice as "salty" as the original glass of water.[/QUOTE]
Now which one of those two glasses have the most salt in them?
[QUOTE=RandomGamer342;41955210]Now which one of those two glasses have the most salt in them?[/QUOTE]
I'm talking about density. Twice as much salt per volume of water. Twice as much intelligence per volume of brain. It's not complicated
The saltwater analogy is terrible anyway
It's a bit more like "I have a harddrive that has 1TB of space on it, but only lets me write 0,5TB on it because it's saved the other half in case the current one is damaged"
Sure, the storage space density based on how much you actually have is better once part of it is damaged, but that doesn't change that you're still only able to use 0,5TB
[QUOTE=WoodenSpoon;41954478]...
Sorry just wanted to shed some light in the weed argument. Surgically removing half the brain would be a last resort to me, I would try any other type of medicine/treatment to help with the seizures before going with the operation.[/QUOTE]
It's also a last case scenario for the doctors as well, it's not like they recommended the procedure the first time the doctors met the kid.
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;41948772]Because typically the cannabis oils have a much, much, [i]much[/i] lower chance of serious side-affects or accidents. If a surgeon messes up during a brain surgery, whoops there goes extra functionality and potentially your life. If you accidentally give your kid too much THC, - assuming you give him so much that it causes an actual reaction - the emergency room can generally stabilize them without any long-term side-affects.[/QUOTE]
plus the dose where harmful side effects occur is what like a thousand times the amount required to get high which is like 10 times the amount used in the medication
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