may lie inside this girl.
Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She turned 16 in January.
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Brooke hasn’t aged in the conventional sense. Dr. Richard Walker of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, in Tampa, says Brooke’s body is not developing as a coordinated unit, but as independent parts that are out of sync. She has never been diagnosed with any known genetic syndrome or chromosomal abnormality that would help explain why.
References:
Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn’t Age [ABC news]
Walker RF. A case study of ‘‘disorganized development’’ and its possible relevance to genetic determinants of aging. Mech Age Devel 2009; 130:350 [PubMed][pdf (link provided by the research group’s site)]