Look at This Crazy Brain Cyst. A 2. 7 year old man had been suffering frequent headaches and had been falling over frequently for around three years. But when he had a seizure, he headed to the emergency department. They took an MRI and found THIS. If you need to get your bearings, the squished brain looking stuff is a squished brain. A 27yearold man had been suffering frequent headaches and had been falling over frequently for around three years. But when he had a seizure, he headed to the. Finale 2009 Torrent Mac Download' title='Finale 2009 Torrent Mac Download' />The black horror is an arachnoid cyst. Internist Jennifer De Longpre at Metro Health Hospital in Michigan spotted it and wrote the case report up for The New England Journal of Medicine. Arachnoid cysts are actually benign Theyre just the sac between the brain and the skull, filled with fluid, often present from birth. But this one was so big it had been causing neurological effects from pressing on the patients brain. I emailed 1. 5 and called 7. Maria Gisele Matheus, professor of radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina, to answer my very simple question how severe is this seemingly massive cystThis case doesnt look especially bad, she said. Oof. Weve seen this before, not so extreme like this one, she said. The patient comes with a headache. Usually, these cysts dont growthey stay and do some minor deformities on the bone. Generally, said Matheus, the brain adjusts to the new pressure shift until symptoms begin to occur, but it doesnt kill the patient. Her department sees maybe one or two minor arachnoid cysts a week, she said, and cases like this come less than once per year. In the case here, Longpre and her team cut into the skull and opened up the cyst to let the fluid drain. They also installed a drain for the fluid, called a shunt. The treatment didnt change the cysts size, the patient still gets headaches, and doctors now just treat his seizures.