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Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychoanalyst Doidge traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning...
2) Miracle for Jen: a tragic accident, a mother's desperate prayer, and heaven's extraordinary answer
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A mother chronicles her family's spiritual journey of coping with the devastating accident that left her daughter with brain trauma.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, full of pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small vegetable farm to recover. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse?
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At seventeen, Barbara’s daughter Jennifer is in a horrific car accident and sustains a traumatic brain injury that sends her into a two-week coma. Once she awakens, a unique disability presents itself: Jenn lacks any traditional method of communication. Unable to speak or function on her own, Jenn must relearn basic life skills in a rehabilitation facility while Barbara and her family struggle to piece together their lives, now forever changed....
6) The traumatized brain: a family guide to understanding mood, memory, and behavior after brain injury
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly inalterable conditions were improved through treatments that involved the thought re-alteration of brain structure.
Author
Publisher
Santa Monica Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn't expected to survive either."
So begins Rise and Shine, the dramatic story of Simon Lewis and his remarkable recovery from a horrific car accident. Told through the eyes of someone who has...
10) Marwencol
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jeff Malmberg's landmark documentary MARWENCOL follows the story of Mark Hogancamp, a victim of a brutal beating, who in response created a fantastic miniature world. As he documents the town's dramas with his camera, the dolls become living characters in an epic tale of love, adventure, resurrection and revenge. When his photos are discovered by the art world, Mark is suddenly forced to choose between the safety of his imaginary world and the real...
Author
Publisher
Psychology Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The past 15 years have seen many developments in the knowledge, research and rehabilitation of individuals following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The second edition of this book provides an updated guide for health professionals working with individuals with such injuries. It's uniquely clinical focus provides both comprehensive background information, and practical strategies for dealing with common problems with thinking, memory, communication,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered--and they learned to love again. When Abby Maslin's husband, TC, didn't make it home on August 18, 2012, she knew something was terribly wrong. Her fears were confirmed when she learned that her husband had been beaten by three men and left for dead mere...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery...
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Packed with practical tools and examples, this state-of-the-art workbook provides a holistic framework for supporting clients with acquired brain injury. Clinicians are guided to set and meet collaborative treatment goals based on a shared understanding of the strengths and needs of clients and their family members. Effective strategies are described for building skills and teaching compensatory strategies in such areas as attention, memory, executive...
18) Trigger
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Some would label Rob Plaskas as disabled and others may call him a victim. Truth be told, he is a survivor and a fighter. A first-hand account of the tragedy and terror he experienced, who he was, and what he has become. Over time he learned to confront the circumstances and embraced his new reality. He found courage and strength to reinvent himself and charted his own path to succeed in his new life. This memoir is about his recovery from a brain...
Author
Publisher
Spiral Path Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring, interactive book and workbook to help brain injury survivors and caregivers move through grief and loss, find their strengths and move forward with a new life. As a brain injury survivor herself, author Carole Starr knows the depth of grief and loss of self that accompany brain injury, the challenge of coping with symptoms that are misunderstood by many and the peace that can come from accepting a new life and a new self. Carole describes...
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