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Brilliance Audio on compact discMaslin, Abby
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASLIN, ABBY MASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MASLIN MASLiontas, Annie
Summary: "Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIONTAS, ANNIE LIOSummary: The epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Kevin Pearce and Shaun White is documented in this exhilarating ride into the world of extreme snowboarding. With both practicing more and more breathtaking and dangerous tricks leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, everything suddenly changes for Kevin when a horrific crash leaves him fighting for his life. When he recovers, all he wants to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CRALemonick, Michael D.
Summary: "In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has uncovered. Lonni Sue Johnson was a renowned artist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHNSON LEMFleischman, John.
Summary: Through the case history of Phineas Gage, a 19th century Vermonter who had an iron bar driven through his brain and lived, the book examines what is known of brain function.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FLEStoler, Diane Roberts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.481 STOKubica, Mary
Summary: "Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: Documents the author's marriage to a fellow Iraq War veteran, describing the impact of his brain injury on their relationship, their shared efforts to overcome post-traumatic stress, and the lack of support for veterans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 WILLIAMS, KAYLA WILCrimmins, C. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19 CRIStoler, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Pub. Group 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 STODolen, Carolyn E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Idyll Arbor 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 DOLOsborn, Claudia L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OSBORN, CLAUDIA OSBDoidge, Norman.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 Doidge 2011Doidge, Norman.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 DOICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.8 DoiSummary: Gandolfini talks with with ten soliders and Marines and their families about their experience during and after their service in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALISummary: After being brutally attacked outside a bar and in spite of 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAROwen, Adrian M
Summary: A neuroscientist reveals his work with patients believed to be brain dead to explain how up to twenty percent of them were still consciously alive, sharing insights into what life may be like for such patients and its moral implications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017