Recommended Books
Neuroscientific Books
V. S. Ramachandran,
MD, and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the
Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (New York: William Morrow
and Company, 1998).
Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (
Matt Ridley, Genome:
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, 1999). (just scientific and not brain
specific, but fascinating and relates to health issues)
Other Good
Ones
Pierce J. Howard, The Owner’s Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind-Brain
Research (Austin: Leornian Press, 1994).
Personal
Stories
Claudia L. Osborn, Over my Head: A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury
from the Inside (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel
Publishing, 1998).
Floyd Skloot,
In the Shadow of Memory (
Sol Mogerman,
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Inside Brain Injury) (
Cheri Registe, Living with Chronic Illness: Days of Passion and Patience (New York: Bantam
Books, 1989). (out of print, about illness in general)
Cathy Crimmins, Where is the Mango Princess?:
A Journey Back from Brain Injury (
Other Good
Ones
Beverly Bryant, In Search of Wings (South Paris, Maine:
Wings, 1992).
Beverly Bryant, To Where Oceans Go (South
Paris, Maine: Wings, May 1996).
Historical
Books
William J. Winslade, Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury:
Devastation, Hope, and Healing (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
Time-Life Books, Mind and Brain: Journey through the Mind and Brain (Alexandria,
Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1993). (drier)
Diagnostic
Guide
Diana Roberts Stoler
and Barbara Albers Hill, Coping with Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury (Garden City Park, New York:Avery Publishing Group, 1998).
Other
Helpful Ones
Richard Senelick and
Karla Dougherty, Living with Brain
Injury: A Guide for Families, 2nd ed., (
Dana DeBoskey, Coming Home: A Discharge Manual For Families Of persons With a Brain Injury (Houston,
Texas: HDI Publishers, 1996).
Dana DeBoskey, Pain: Making Life Liveable
(Houston, Texas: HDI Publishers, 1996).
Dana DeBoskey, Working After Brain Injury: What Can I Do?
(Houston, Texas: HDI Publishers, 1996).