{"id":167524,"date":"2023-07-14T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/elyse-g-s-brain-is-fabulous-its-also-missing-a-big-chunk"},"modified":"2023-07-14T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T19:24:50","slug":"elyse-g-s-brain-is-fabulous-its-also-missing-a-big-chunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/elyse-g-s-brain-is-fabulous-its-also-missing-a-big-chunk","title":{"rendered":"Elyse G.\u2019s brain is fabulous. It\u2019s also missing a big chunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elyse-g-s-brain-is-fabulous-its-also-missing-a-big-chunk3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fedorenko didn\u2019t know it at the time, but those first studies would set in motion a whirlwind that would alter the course of her research. Her team\u2019s findings would ignite media attention, prompting even more people to send along their brain scans. What started as a single case study has now snowballed into <a href=\"https:\/\/web.mit.edu\/~interestingbrains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Interesting Brains Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of this fall, the project will likely have scanned more than 40 people with atypical brains. In many cases, participants are missing entire brain regions, and like Elyse, they didn\u2019t find out until they were adults.<\/p>\n<p>That may be a tribute to the brain\u2019s flexibility \u2014 its ability to change and adapt \u2014 including its redundancies, Fedorenko says. Like backup generators, some brain areas can kick into gear if others get injured. A close look at cases like Elyse\u2019s could help scientists better understand how our brains cope with damage and why some kinds are worse than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fedorenko didn\u2019t know it at the time, but those first studies would set in motion a whirlwind that would alter the course of her research. Her team\u2019s findings would ignite media attention, prompting even more people to send along their brain scans. What started as a single case study has now snowballed into the Interesting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}