Half a Brain Is Enough - The Story of Nico

Part case history and part a study of consciousness and the brain, this story follows Nico, a toddler who had his right brain removed to control epilepsy. Battro is the neuroscientist who worked with Nico and watched him grow up to be a bright child with minor physical and mental handicaps. Illustrations.

List of contents

Preface; Glossary; 1. The heart is in the brain; 2. Sculpting a new brain; 3. Compensatory analysis; 4. First schooling; 5. The cortical shift; 6. The double brain; 7. Brain, education and development; Notes; References; Index.

Summary

Half A Brain Is Enough is the story of Nico, who at the age of three was given a right hemispherectomy. Antonio Battro charts Nico's 'neuroeducation' with humour and compassion in an intriguing book, part case history, part meditation on the nature of consciousness and the brain, and part manifesto.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Battro, Antonio M. Battro
• Assisted by: George Butterworth (Editor), Kurt W. Fischer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521783071
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78307-1
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 359 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology