Boy Born with 2 Percent of Brain Defies Odds, Learns to Count and Surf

In this file image, a picture of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner, also called PET scan, is seen on a screen at the Regional and University Hospital Center of Brest, western France Jan. 9, 2019. Fred TANNEAU / AFP/Getty Images

A boy who was born with only 2 percent of his brain has not only survived against all odds, but gone on to learn to speak, count, and even do a little surfing, as his brain miraculously grew to 80 percent of normal size.

Six-year-old Noah Wall was diagnosed with spina bifida and hydrocephaly when he was growing in his mother’s womb.