16 Facts About Brooke Greenberg

Brooke Megan Greenberg was an American woman who became famous for being the first documented case of neotenic complex syndrome.

Brooke Greenberg was delivered by caesarean section, one month before her due date due to "intermittent growth", weighing just four pounds.

Brooke Greenberg was born with anterior hip dislocation, a condition that caused her legs to be swiveled upward toward her shoulders; it was corrected surgically.

Brooke Greenberg was the third of four girls born to her parents.

At age five, Brooke had a mass in her brain that caused her to go into a deep sleep for 14 days.

Brooke Greenberg later awoke, and physicians found no tumor present.

Child Frozen In Time, a documentary about Brooke Greenberg, was first broadcast on TLC on August 9,2009.

In 2006, Richard Walker, an endocrine physiologist at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, said that Brooke Greenberg's body was not developing as a coordinated unit but as independent parts that were out of synchronization.

Brooke Greenberg was never diagnosed with any known genetic disorder or chromosomal abnormality that would help explain why.

Brooke Greenberg's telomeres seemed to be shortening at the normal rate.

Brooke Greenberg estimated her mental age at around nine months to a year old.

Brooke Greenberg could make gestures and recognize sounds but could not speak.

Brooke Greenberg's bones were like those of a ten-year-old, and she still had her baby teeth, which had an estimated developmental age of about eight years.

Brooke Greenberg died on October 24,2013, at the Herman and Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai Medical Center in Baltimore, the same hospital where she was born.

Brooke Greenberg was among seven children worldwide with Syndrome X that are being studied by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Brooke Greenberg died on January 7,2020, at the age of 7.