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Half a Brain is Enough: The Story of Nico [Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development].
by Battro, Antonio M
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0521783070
- ISBN 13
- 9780521783071
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2000. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good 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.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14089
- Title
- Half a Brain is Enough: The Story of Nico [Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development].
- Author
- Battro, Antonio M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0521783070
- ISBN 13
- 9780521783071
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- psychology, cognition, consciousness, biosciences, neuropsychology, neurosciences, health, neurosurgery
- Bookseller catalogs
- PSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOUR;
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- Foxed
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- Octavo
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- Edges
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