Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
This also reminds me of Hemispherectomy[0] where an entire half of the brain is surgically removed in extreme cases to prevent seizures. And amazingly, especially if you do this on younger children:"Studies have found no significant long-term effects on memory, personality, or humor,[4] and minimal changes in cognitive function overall."If you don't _really_ need half of the brain and you don't _really_ need the cerebellum, I wonder how little (and what part) of the brain we actually do _really_ need. And then there are so many people living just fine with lesions in so many parts of the brain.It's just amazing. Imagine going into our code bases and tearing out entire classes or modules; That wouldn't go down well.[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy