Word: hendricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fluent Prattle. The Brantford doctors sent the baby to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There, when Michael was 41 months old, Neurosurgeon Bruce Hendrick cut out the entire right half of his brain. Hendrick by now has done 17 such operations, or hemispherectomies. The youngest patient was 26 days old and weighed five pounds...
Michael Wood is now doing well, and will start kindergarten in January. When he is taken to Dr. Hendrick for a checkup, he trots in and prattles as fluently as the average tot of his age. If he still had all his brain, Michael would be paralyzed on his left side, walking lamely if at all, not talking, and suffering daily or more frequent seizures despite drug treatment...
...damaged hemisphere can be removed before a child has developed right-or left-handedness or has learned to speak, so much the better. In such a case, the question of removing the dominant side does not arise. Says Hendrick: "The brain is very malleable in infants and hasn't established any habits, so there is a better chance of the function of the damaged areas being taken over by the undamaged areas. For instance, early damage might not affect normal speech development. But a child having a stroke later, say at six or seven, is in big trouble...
...rare and radical surgery that has wrought such changes, Dr. Hendrick cuts a trap door in the skull, removes the entire neocortex (new brain) and hippocampal area on one side (see diagram), stopping at the midbrain just above the hypothalamus. He puts nothing into the huge cavity that results, because it soon fills up with cerebrospinal fluid. The operation, he says, "is not exciting-it's terrifying, especially, on young babies. They don't have much blood anyway, and we have to get into an area that's all blood vessels. And you have...
...burghers invested much of their wealth in art. Patronage grew so great that as early as 1560 in Antwerp alone, there were more than three times as many working artists as there were butchers. Today most painters of that period are forgotten, but occasionally an unfamiliar name such as Hendrick Terbrugghen establishes a new reputation more than three centuries after his death...