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The Brooke Greenberg is a child frozen in time although she looks like a little baby, she is actually 15 years old. Doctors are stumped by her condition and have called it syndrome x as no one has ever seen this condition before.

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The girl who doesn't grow: Meet Brooke Greenberg toddler-sized 20-year-old

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In 2006, Richard Walker, PhD in endocrine physiology of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, said that Brooke's body is not developing as a coordinated unit, but as independent parts that are out of synchronization.[6] She has never been diagnosed with any known genetic disorder or chromosomal abnormality that would help explain why.[2] Her telomeres seem to be shortening at the normal rate.[4]
In 2009, Walker said: "There've been very minimal changes in Brooke's brain … Various parts of her body, rather than all being at the same stage, seem to be disconnected." Walker noted that Greenberg's brain, for example, is not much more mature than that of a newborn infant. He estimates her mental age at around nine months to a year old. Brooke can make gestures and recognize sounds, but cannot speak. Her bones are like those of a ten-year-old, and she still has her baby teeth, which have an estimated developmental age of about eight years. Said Walker, "We think that Brooke's condition presents us with a unique opportunity to understand the process of aging."[7] "Different parts of her body are developing at different rates, as if they were not a unit but parts of separate organisms," Walker explains.[8]
Dr. Walker believes that the condition resulted from a failure of central control genes. He has identified two more people with similar developmental issues: Gabrielle Williams[9] of Montana (born 2004) and Nicky Freeman[10] of Australia (born 1970), a forty-year-old man who looks like a boy. [link to en.wikipedia.org]

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