Lissencephaly affects only 400 to 500 children in the world today.
Information is stored in the many convolutions of a brain.
It is understood that the brain controls every function that a human being has. A smooth brain can hold no information and therefore will affect the individual physically and mentally. The nerve cells are unable to reach the surface and are stuck in an abnormal position and cannot make their usual connections with other nerve cells. Lissencephaly causes severe mental retardation, low muscle tone, seizures, feeding difficulties and heart ache for the parents. The children will more than likely never develop mentally beyond that of a 2 to 6 month old infant.