Author: Battro, Antonio M. Title: Half a Brain Is Enough: The Story of Nico [Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development].
Description: Cambridge Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2000. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), figures, edges lightly foxed. 118 pp. Antonio Battro relates the extraordinary story of Nico, a three-year-old Argentinian boy who was given a right hemispherectomy to control severe intractable epilepsy. The distinguished neuroscientist describes his work with Nico over several years and explains how a boy with only half a brain has developed into a bright child with relatively minor physical and mental impairment. Nico's so-called right-hemisphere skills - mathematics, visual arts, and music - have migrated to the left hemisphere. Nico performs well above average verbally, a left-brain skill. Charts Nico's "neuroeducation" with humor and compassion in a book that is part case history, and part a study of consciousness and the brain. ISBN: 0521783070
Keywords: psychology, cognition, consciousness, biosciences, neuropsychology, neurosciences, health, neurosurgery 0521783070
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- Book number: 14089
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