Science: eight years old, part of the brain is missing and her case challenges doctors
«This child understands language and speech, is capable of symbolic play and imagination, distinguishes fantasy from reality, recognizes emotions, but is tremendously uninhibited,» says Ibáñez, «what Mesulam called ‘the mystery of the frontal lobe’: if one makes an evaluation in controlled contexts, in which contributes the external executive function and order, she responds perfectly, but in a free context she gets out of control «.
