The woman was born with a rare condition known as hydranencephaly Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, ...
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Woman born with rare condition beats the odds and turns 20
By every medical prediction, Alex Simpson was never supposed to blow out 20 candles. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, with almost no ...
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She Was Born Without a Brain and Given Only 4 Years to Live — but She Turned 20 Against All Odds
Doctors never expected Alex Simpson to survive long after birth. Diagnosed with hydranencephaly — a rare condition in which most of the brain’s hemispheres are missing and replaced with fluid — she ...
A Nebraska woman born without a brain just celebrated her 20th birthday — and is defying the odds. Alex Simpson of Omaha was born with a rare condition known as hydranencephaly, according to her ...
Nobody expected Alex Simpson to live past her fourth or fifth birthday. But against all odds, the young Nebraska woman who was born without most of her brain celebrated her 20th birthday in the ...
A “miracle” Nebraska woman born without a brain defied the odds as her family marked her 20th birthday — decades after parents were told she’d never make it to 5, reports said. Alex Simpson turned 20 ...
Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...
A Nebraska woman born without a brain just celebrated her 20th birthday — and is defying the odds. Alex Simpson of Omaha was born with a rare condition known as hydranencephaly, according to her ...
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