This Sould Come as No Surprise: Tax Official Found to Have a Huge Cavity in His Head

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>From Spiegel Online:"Tiny Brain" No Problem for Tax Official

Something that many people secretly believed has been confirmed: You
don't actually need a brain to work in a tax office. A French civil
servant has been found to have a huge cavity filled with fluid in his
head -- yet lives a completely normal life.

The commonly spouted wisdom that people only use 10% of their brain
power may have been dismissed as a myth, but one French man seems to
be managing fine with just a small fraction of his actual brain. ...

Neurologists at the University of Marseille described the incredible
case in the latest edition of the medical journal Lancet published
Friday. They describe how the 44-year-old man went to the hospital in
2003 because he felt a mild weakness in his left leg. When the doctors
went to look at his brain to see if the problem lay there, they found,
well, pretty much nothing but a great black hole. ...

Tests showed that the man's IQ is 75 -- the average is 100 -- but he
was not considered physically or mentally disabled. Fuillet said that
his condition had not impared his development or his socialization. He
is married with two children and works in the tax office -- which is
perhaps not the most "taxing" of jobs. "The case is extreme, but there
are other cases of patients with incredibly little brain matter,"
Florian Heinen, a brain development expert at the Dr. von Hauner's
Children's Hospital at Munich University, explained to the Süddeutsche
Zeitung.