A nine-year-old girl suffers from a rare disease, which is expressed in the fact that the hemispheres of her brain are not connected, as it should be. The disease, which is called AMT, means that even when Alice touches a hot oven burning her, she will not react in any way. The schoolgirl’s illness, which has made her pain threshold extremely high, is so rare that only 50 people in the world are known to suffer from it.

This also means that the girl is unable to describe the pain, despite the fact that she, like all children, suffers from colds and tonsillitis.“Alice falls and knocks down her knees just like all children, but she doesn’t react to it,” says the girl’s mother, 37-year-old Lindsay. “She never cried and I started to wonder if she had tear ducts at all.”

The danger of the disease is that when a girl becomes ill, she is unable to recognize that something is wrong with her. Her mother must constantly monitor the child’s safety and prevent him from harming himself. “She put her hand on a hot stove one day and continued to play as if nothing had happened,” the mother says. “Another time she got a bad bruise on her forehead and didn’t even notice.”

Alice was diagnosed with AMT when she was 19 months old, according to the latest issue of the British online edition of Mail Online. The absence of the corpus callosum, a structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain, is defined as the disease. It occurs when the nerve fibers that form the corpus callosum do not form, preventing signals from being transmitted between the hemispheres of the brain. A rare genetic disease causes a delay in brain development as well.