I\'ve read that the human brain has a very gelatin-like consistency. I also hear

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I've read that the human brain has a very gelatin-like consistency. I also heard you talking last week about people who have had a hemisphere of their brain removed. This makes me wonder how they keep the rest of their brain from oozing all around the inside of their skull. It seems like if they were in a car that stopped short or just shook their head too quickly, things would fall apart, no? Do the doctors fill the empty part of the skull with something? The medical equivalent of foam packing peanuts? Actual packing peanuts?

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Ok, let us look this question from the anatomical balancing of brain point of view. Brain is suspended in cerebrospinal fluid in the cranial cavity. If half of the brain is removed (as in case of epilepsy treatment etc.), the gap is filled by the cerebro spinal fluid (CSF). So, the other region remains as it is.

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