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Liontas, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIONTAS, ANNIE LIO

Lemonick, 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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B JOHNSON LEM

Fleischman, 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 FLE

Cogan, Priscilla

Summary: Awakening from a coma with a traumatic brain injury, former English professor Tess Outerbridge finds herself cognitively challenged, facing unexpected divorce papers from her husband and homeless. An elderly, lonely hospital volunteer, Cassie McDermott, invites Tess to her mansion for the long rehabilitation. An unforeseen gun battle leaves Sonny, a brilliant young man on the cusp of a bright...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cogan 2013

Stoler, Diane.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Pub. Group 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 STO

Dolen, Carolyn E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Idyll Arbor 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 DOL

Osborn, 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 OSB

Doidge, Norman.

1 hold on 2 copies

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 DOI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.8 Doi

Owen, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 OWE

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