Living Without Part of Your Brain

I didn't expect at all for someone to be able to survive without a pretty major part of their brain. Since if you're missing your cerebellum, that's a pretty large part of your brain missing, taking in the fact that it contains 50% of all of your brain's neurons. I also found it very surprising that 9 people have managed to survive past a young age while missing that part of their brain, since the likely hood of them living past a young age is really rare. Also the fact that no one knew that she was missing her cerebellum until she was 24 years old is very surprising to me, then again, they didn't know that those young kids had their's missing until they got the autopsy done.

I looked up if it was possible for you to survive without your thalamus, and I was able to come up with an answer. No, you cannot live without your thalamus, let alone get it damaged. If your thalamus gets damaged, you can be stuck in a permanent coma. Since the thalamus is what controls your state of sleep and wakefulness, it also regulates your level of awareness and activity, and motor controls. So, it's really part of your brain that you cannot live without, that is, unless you don't want to be able to function.