Today, Daniel Carr is a 23-year-old with a degree FROM a technical college and he works as a sales porter at a car dealership. Daniel's mother, Kellie, struggled for years to find out what was causing her son's weakened right side. The years-long quest for a medical answer to this question finally led to the conclusion that Daniel had suffered a massive stroke as a newborn and lost large parts of his brain as a result. It was the largest stroke I'd ever seen in a child who hadn't died or suffered extreme physical and mental disability, said Nico Dosenbach, the pediatric neurologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who finally diagnosed him using an MRI. The amazing capabilities that Daniel possesses are a result of his brain remapping itself to make up for all of the lost tissue. There's this interaction between the specific parts of his brain that were retained and when exactly the injury happened in his developmental trajectory that is ultimately going to explain how he ended up doing so well, said Timothy Laumann, a psychologist at Washington University School of Medicine and `member` of Dr. Dosenbach's lab.

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