From Adam Ben-Dawood, Leeds, UK
Jessica Hamzelou reports on a bright teenager with half a brain who plans to go to university (15 February, p 10). The late John Lorber, professor of paediatrics at the University of Sheffield, reported several more extreme cases.
The most striking was that of a young man whose hydrocephalus apparently meant that he was missing almost his entire brain – yet he was studying mathematics at university.
