What this article is about is how a woman who is 24 years old finds out through a cat scan that she is missing her cerebellum. According to this article she has had a problem walking straight and steadily her whole life. What the cerebellum is, is it is basically the "little brain." The cerebellum’s main job is to control voluntary movements and balance, and it is also thought to be involved in our ability to learn specific motor actions and speak. Problems in the cerebellum can lead to severe mental impairment, movement disorders, epilepsy or a potentially fatal build-up of fluid in the brain. However, in this woman, the missing cerebellum resulted in only mild to moderate motor deficiency, and mild speech problems such as slightly slurred pronunciation.
For class we were assigned a different part of the brain and have to explain what would happen if that part would be missing. I got corpus collosum which is a board band of nerve fibers that joins together the right and left hemisphere of the brain. You can actually survive if the left and right sides of the brain are not connected, but you may have various problems over your lifetime.
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