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Brain damage Patients Brain damage Patients Biography Brain damage Patients Michigan Biography Brain damage Patients Rehabilitation Brain damage Psychological aspects Brain Wounds and injuries Complications Internists Michigan Biography Neuroplasticity Persistent vegetative state Persistent vegetative state Moral and ethical aspectsLiontas, 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 LIOLemonick, 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 FLECogan, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cogan 2013Stoler, 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: 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 DoiOwen, 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