In the midst of a delicate brain surgery, Mike faced the challenge of removing a malignant tumor without harming Jane's vital functions, battling his inner doubts as he considered the difficult decision of whether to continue or not.
it avoided brainstem. so what do these parts of the brain do? this is the motor strip. this moves the right side of the body. it has probably been undercut. she s probably going to have some degree of paralysis or weakness or numbness on the right side. the language areas that we hear so much about are here and here. speech production and speech perception. that s what we don t know. are these areas damaged or not? their precise location in individuals can be variable. then there are other things we can expect to see. the frontal lobe here, a lot of this lobe is association cortex. it doesn t do anything specific in terms of movement or sensing pain or something like that. it s a place where connections are made.
the fact that she was responsive was interesting to him. that she could squeeze somebody s hand and listen to commands. the question that i have i don t think anybody has asked, this went through the back, through the left side of her brain and out just above the eye socket. the question is, can she move her right side? i have heard reports that she can. i ll tell you why i am not surprised at that. by the way that following commands huge. that takes a higher level of function to do that. what is exciting and miraculous is, since she reportedly some skull fractures, that implies the trajectory of the bullet was in the upper part of the brain. all of our important centers are deeper speech, motor strip occurs in the front of the brain, memory are deeper down. it is possible, we don t know for sure, she may have preserved some of her higher level function them keep watching on cat scans so far reporting no increased swelling.
responsive was interesting to him. that she could squeeze somebody s hand and listen to commands. the question that i have i don t think anybody has asked, this went through the back, through the left side of her brain and out just above the eye socket. the question is, can she move her right side? i have heard reports that she can. i ll tell you why i am not surprised at that. by the way that following commands huge. that takes a higher level of function to do that. what is exciting and miraculous is, since she reportedly some skull fractures, that implies the trajectory of the bullet was in the upper part of the brain. all of our important centers are deeper speech, motor strip occurs in the front of the brain, memory are deeper down. it is possible, we don t know for sure, she may have preserved some of her higher level function them keep watching on cat scans so far reporting no increased swelling. that s the most important
counteracting that swelling, and allow the viable parts of the brain to make it through this period, calm down, and start to see what s still viable for the congresswoman. so what functions does the front part of the brain, where she was apparently struck, what do they control? the frontal lobe from reports what i have, she was shot through the back of the left side, and then came through and exited the front part. so that would give her an injury that would transverse from the back to the front, staying only on the left side. the posterior part will control vision to the right side of the visual field. there s a motor strip that controls movement to the right side of the body. then the left frontal lobe, assuming that the congresswoman is right-handed and left brain dominant actually is a lot of her personality, some memory, a lot of the essence of what she is. so worst case scenario she