One of the very great investigation failures of today's psychologists and neuroscientists is their tendency to only search scientific papers when writing scientific papers. The fact is that there are huge additional sources of information providing very important medical case histories. Those include newspapers and magazines. It is not hard to search for medical case histories documented in newspapers. For example, the free Chronicling America site allows you to search through more than 100 years of American newspapers. You can use the site by using the link below:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/
Below is one of the very interesting cases I get when using the phrase "brain gone." In the 1927 news account, we read of a boy (Alfonso Bedra) who lost five ounces of his brain. The average ten-year-old boy has a brain with a weight of about 40 to 50 ounces. We read that the despite this large loss of brain tissue, the boy had above average intelligence. You can read the story here.
Use the link here to read other post of mine describing cases of people who retained above-average intelligence despite losing very large parts of their brain.
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