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The news of the child's shrinking brain baffled doctors, and since this discovery he has negatively tested for every known neurological disorder that there is. It is thought that Jason has a unique mutation that has caused his brain to shrink, most notably the Cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls movement. The good news, however, is that Jason's brain has stopped shrinking as a recent brain scan showed. The overall size of his brain has not changed and doctors indicate that this is a good sign, and he may be able to live a life similar to that of a person with cerebral palsy. While this situation is a depressing one, it opens new doors in the fields of genetics and neurological dis0rders.
Most people think that doctors are not doing their job right when they can't diagnose a condition. With the way science and nature is rapidly changing, many new mutations and diseases may present themselves within the near future creating more cases like this one.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good point. A lot of people do not get how a condition cannot be diagnosed or their is no evidence or reason for the condition. And honestly, I kind of thought the same thing until I started taking biology and genetics classes. You do not realize how many possible mutations can actually occur, and to try and find and figure out that one rare mutation could take an extremely long time.
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