The Woman With a Hole in Her Head

In this article it talks about a women with a missing portion of her brain. Her Cerebellum was missing which caused her to loose partially part of her motor skills and slurred her speech on some words. In replacement of her cerebellum it was filled with cerebrospinal fluid to prevent from disease. This women got it lucky is only dealing with minor issues and her situation could have been much worse.

I was assigned the pineal gland, if a person were to loose or be without their pineal gland they would loose the ability to create the hormone melatonin, which promotes sleep. the pineal gland also has a big influent on the cerebellum. effecting other hormones and reducing sleep pattern. if the denial gland is destroyed one article writes that other portions of the brain would take over and compensate for the loss of it.