traumatic brain injury

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile

by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek  · 21 Oct 2025  · 330pp  · 85,349 words

automobile crash seriously enough to seek medical attention. A significant percentage of those injuries were “life-altering”—a phrase that includes paralyzing spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and loss of limbs. These deaths and injuries are only more heartbreaking because so many of them—almost all of them—are preventable. In the

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

by Richard Beck  · 2 Sep 2024  · 715pp  · 212,449 words

, and permanent physical disability. In just the first four years of the Iraq War, the military spent more than $23 million on prescription drugs for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), two of the most common diagnoses given to those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s now estimated

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blind alleyways, reads like the script for a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game. His emphasis on the dangers of concussions anticipates the rise of traumatic brain injury as the signature combat wound of the Iraq War. And his chilling warnings about the difficulties of distinguishing enemy combatants from civilians in urban combat

SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully

by Jane McGonigal  · 14 Sep 2015  · 525pp  · 147,008 words

share their stories of growth and triumph. (And I have stories to share, having used the SuperBetter rules not only to heal from a mild traumatic brain injury but also to train for my first marathon and to successfully complete IVF treatment—which resulted earlier this year in the birth of twin daughters

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or chronic pain 4. Finding a new job or overcoming unemployment 5. Surviving a divorce or family separation 6. Healing from a physical injury, including traumatic brain injury 7. Bouncing back from a school or career setback 8. Recovering from PTSD 9. Thriving with a learning disability or neurological disorder (often tackled by

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for at least five minutes. “This power-up was recommended to me by a nurse at the hospital where I’m getting treatment for a traumatic brain injury. She said to think of it as harvesting vitamin D from the sun. I have to admit, even on days when it feels like I

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can’t do anything right, this is something I can do.”* —Devon, twenty-four, whose challenge is to recover from a traumatic brain injury Dance break: Stop whatever you’re doing and dance to a favorite song. “I use this with my six- and eight-year-old girls, especially

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challenges, you might decide to draw on different strengths. Switching up your secret identity can help you do just that. When I was battling mild traumatic brain injury, I became Jane the Concussion Slayer—inspired by the fictional Buffy the Vampire Slayer—to bring out my courage and determination. When I was trying

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is, I cannot think of anything, even something small, that would give me joy.” This problem is surprisingly common. The neurochemistry of depression, anxiety, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, and many other illnesses can make it extremely difficult for sufferers to anticipate positive future outcomes.5 (A dopamine imbalance is often to

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empathy I’d never felt before, a personal connection with, and a desire to help, all others who have experienced their own difficult concussion or traumatic brain injury. I know I’m clearer because I now say no when people ask me to spend time and energy on things that don’t fit

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collaboration that, over a three-year period, helped us strengthen the design and incorporate specific medical guidance for players using the game for concussions and traumatic brain injury recovery. As a result of our ongoing collaboration, we were awarded a research grant from the National Institutes of Health. We were tasked with conducting

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pilot study, OSU enrolled twenty patients from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Aged thirteen to twenty, they were all dealing with difficult recoveries from a mild traumatic brain injury or concussion. They were introduced to SuperBetter by their doctor and given a quick tutorial on how to use the digital version. They were then

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’s always do three great things. Notes Introduction 1. Jessica L. Mackelprang et al., “Rates and Predictors of Suicidal Ideation During the First Year After Traumatic Brain Injury,” American Journal of Public Health 104, no. 7 (2014): e100–e107; Nazanin H. Bahraini et al., “Suicidal Ideation and Behaviours After

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Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review,” Brain Impairment 14.01 (2013): 92–112. 2. Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun, “Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence,”

Power

by Shahida Arabi  · 11 Jan 2017

unprecedented move, her husband, Long Vang, was charged for driving her to suicide: he had been relentlessly bullying and contacting her during recovery from a traumatic brain injury even after a restraining order had been placed on him. He had coerced her into leaving treatment, three days before she committed suicide. Stalking and

Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep

by Kamini Desai  · 7 Mar 2017

patients who have followed. Last year, in a social setting, I met a 45-year-old Iraq War veteran. He said he was suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He reported that he was being treated as an outpatient at a VA Hospital and was taking fifteen

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, non-invasive and accessible treatments exist to prevent or even reverse compromised cognitive function. Yoga Nidra could be an important tool to enhance recovery from traumatic brain injury because of the slow-wave Delta brainwave state it induces. In Theta brainwave states, we gain access to unconscious patterns and behaviors that, unbeknownst to

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. 23 Mar. 2016. [6] 6 – Strecker, Robert, and David Uygun. “Faculty of 1000 Evaluation for Sleep Modulation Alleviates Axonal Damage and Cognitive Decline after Rodent Traumatic Brain Injury.” F1000 Post-publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature. Web. 23 Mar. 2016. [7] 7 – Nishida, M., J. Pearsall, R. L. Buckner, and M. P

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, she showed the group her open hand, which had not opened for twenty years. A 49-year-old woman in Yoga Nidra training had a traumatic brain injury when she was 15 years old, regressing her to the state of a 7-year-old. Eventually she relearned how to function, but she lost

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same thing. Due to evidence of overnight, systems-level changes in motor memory there are important implications for clinical rehabilitation from brain trauma, such as traumatic brain injury or stroke.[20] The problem is, only 11% of American college students report that they sleep well, and just 40% of those who do sleep

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] 172 – Nassif, T., D. Norris, K. Soltes, F. Sandbrink, M. Blackman, and J. Chapman. “Using Mindfulness Meditation to Improve Pain Management in Combat Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury.” (2015). VA Healthcare. [22] 173 – Owens, Gina P., et al. “Changes in mindfulness skills and treatment response among veterans in residential PTSD treatment.” Psychological Trauma

Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

by James Risen  · 15 Feb 2014  · 339pp  · 99,674 words

veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan—“war lung injury.” Among veterans, war lung injury soon began to take its place alongside post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury as one of the signature medical problems of the global war on terror. Independent veterans’ groups fielded worried calls from returning soldiers, and, beginning in

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van Der Kolk M. D.  · 7 Sep 2015  · 600pp  · 174,620 words

shown good results for numerous issues and conditions that go beyond the scope of this book, including relieving tension headaches, improving cognitive functioning following a traumatic brain injury, reducing anxiety and panic attacks, learning to deepen meditation states, treating autism, improving seizure control, self-regulation in mood disorders, and more. As of 2013

The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease

by Lanius, Ruth A.; Vermetten, Eric; Pain, Clare  · 11 Jan 2011

improvement based on onset of trauma in either the fluoxetine or pill placebo group. Finally, with the increasing attention turning to the combined effects of traumatic brain injury and PTSD, increased research will be needed to determine the impact that this physical disorder may have on the treatment of PTSD and vice versa

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph From the Frontiers of Brain Science

by Norman Doidge  · 15 Mar 2007  · 515pp  · 136,938 words

, B. Melo, G. Monette, M. Bayley, D. Hebert, E. Inness, and W. Mcilroy. 2006. Is there a trade-off between cognitive and motor recovery after traumatic brain injury due to competition for limited neural resources? Brain and Cognition, 60(2): 199–201. to help stroke patients who have damage to Broca’s area

The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis

by Julie Holland  · 22 Sep 2010  · 694pp  · 197,804 words

involved in a large number of biochemical reactions and physiological processes, which are discussed in detail in other chapters. I will present one example only. Traumatic brain injury leads to a local and transient accumulation of 2-AG at the site of injury. Neuroprotection exerted by the administration of synthetic 2-AG suggests

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may serve as a molecular regulator of this pathological event, attenuating the brain damage (Panikashvili et al. 2001). 2-AG exerts its neuroprotective effect after traumatic brain injury, at least in part, by inhibition of NF-κB activation. NF-κB, a protein, is known to lead to inflammation (Panikashvili et al. 2005). 2

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and strategies used to protect against neuronal injury, degeneration, or death in the central nervous system (CNS), especially following acute disorders such as stroke or traumatic brain injury or as a result of chronic neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and multiple sclerosis (MS) (Hill 2006). Neuroprotection

Confronting Gun Violence in America

by Thomas Gabor  · 12 Sep 2016

Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques From EMDR Therapy

by Francine Shapiro  · 26 Mar 2013  · 358pp  · 112,735 words

Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

by Caroline Elton  · 1 Mar 2018  · 351pp  · 101,051 words

Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night

by Henry Nicholls  · 1 Mar 2018  · 367pp  · 102,188 words

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

by Jamie Raskin  · 4 Jan 2022  · 450pp  · 144,939 words

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--And Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

by Christopher M. Palmer Md  · 15 Nov 2022  · 402pp  · 107,908 words

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

by Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez  · 5 Jan 2010  · 269pp  · 104,430 words

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

by Jesselyn Cook  · 22 Jul 2024  · 321pp  · 95,778 words

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt  · 14 Jun 2018  · 531pp  · 125,069 words

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

by Sebastian Junger  · 23 May 2016  · 109pp  · 33,946 words

Laziness Does Not Exist

by Devon Price  · 5 Jan 2021  · 362pp  · 87,462 words

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

by Jon Kabat-Zinn  · 23 Sep 2013  · 706pp  · 237,378 words

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

by Suzanne O'Sullivan  · 31 Mar 2021  · 319pp  · 101,673 words

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

by Annie Jacobsen  · 14 Sep 2015  · 558pp  · 164,627 words

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss  · 6 Dec 2016  · 669pp  · 210,153 words

Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do

by Jeremy Bailenson  · 30 Jan 2018  · 302pp  · 90,215 words

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

by Sally Adee  · 27 Feb 2023  · 329pp  · 101,233 words

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol  · 6 Jan 2015  · 588pp  · 131,025 words

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt  · 28 Jul 2008  · 512pp  · 165,704 words

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

by Devon Price  · 4 Apr 2022  · 456pp  · 101,959 words

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal  · 22 Mar 2022  · 420pp  · 135,569 words

Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity With a Neurodiverse Workforce

by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith  · 2 Aug 2021  · 424pp  · 114,820 words

In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

by Joseph Jebelli  · 30 Oct 2017  · 294pp  · 87,429 words

The End of Policing

by Alex S. Vitale  · 9 Oct 2017  · 318pp  · 82,452 words

Website Optimization

by Andrew B. King  · 15 Mar 2008  · 597pp  · 119,204 words

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen  · 16 Oct 2017

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman  · 1 Nov 2014  · 336pp  · 93,672 words

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

by Andrew Yang  · 2 Apr 2018  · 300pp  · 76,638 words

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

by Daniel J. Levitin  · 18 Aug 2014  · 685pp  · 203,949 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

by Catherine Shanahan M. D.  · 2 Jan 2017  · 659pp  · 190,874 words

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

by Eric Topol  · 1 Jan 2019  · 424pp  · 114,905 words

The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek  · 15 Feb 2013

Critical: Science and Stories From the Brink of Human Life

by Matt Morgan  · 29 May 2019  · 218pp  · 70,323 words

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

by Meredith Broussard  · 19 Apr 2018  · 245pp  · 83,272 words

The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi

by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke and Lindsey Lacz  · 11 Jul 2016  · 304pp  · 97,603 words

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist  · 8 Oct 2012

Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

by Judith Grisel  · 15 Feb 2019  · 213pp  · 68,363 words

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris  · 5 Oct 2010  · 412pp  · 115,266 words

Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale

by David N. Blank-Edelman  · 16 Sep 2018

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

by Steve Coll  · 27 Feb 2024  · 738pp  · 196,803 words

Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

by Sean Parnell and John Bruning  · 28 Feb 2012  · 400pp  · 109,754 words

The Estrogen Fix: The Breakthrough Guide to Being Healthy, Energized, and Hormonally Balanced

by Mache Seibel  · 18 Sep 2017  · 290pp  · 86,718 words

Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

by Scott Kelly and Margaret Lazarus Dean  · 14 Aug 2017  · 411pp  · 140,110 words

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by Will Bulsiewicz  · 15 Dec 2020  · 431pp  · 99,919 words

Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck  · 14 Sep 2020  · 339pp  · 103,546 words

Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind

by Susan Schneider  · 1 Oct 2019  · 331pp  · 47,993 words

Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

by Scott Barry Kaufman  · 6 Apr 2020  · 678pp  · 148,827 words

The End of Growth

by Jeff Rubin  · 2 Sep 2013  · 262pp  · 83,548 words

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

by Benjamin K. Bergen  · 12 Sep 2016  · 364pp  · 102,926 words

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

by Sandeep Jauhar  · 11 Apr 2023  · 220pp  · 67,661 words

The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out

by Joe Aston  · 27 Oct 2024  · 362pp  · 130,141 words

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder  · 18 Sep 2017  · 273pp  · 85,195 words

My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face

by Michael Ian Black  · 14 Jul 2008  · 144pp  · 47,632 words

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection

by Michael Harris  · 6 Aug 2014  · 259pp  · 73,193 words

The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

by Christian Davenport  · 20 Mar 2018  · 390pp  · 108,171 words

Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire: Everything I Know Now About Autism and Asperger's That I Wish I'd Known Then

by David William Plummer  · 14 Sep 2021

CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans

by Henry T. Greely  · 22 Jan 2021

Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century

by James R. Flynn  · 5 Sep 2012

Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life

by Alan B. Krueger  · 3 Jun 2019

Switched On: My Journey From Asperger's to Emotional Awakening

by John Elder Robison  · 6 Apr 2016  · 316pp  · 106,321 words

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory

by Andrew J. Bacevich  · 7 Jan 2020  · 254pp  · 68,133 words

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by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff  · 8 Jul 2024  · 272pp  · 103,638 words

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by Leigh Gallagher  · 14 Feb 2017  · 290pp  · 87,549 words

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by Stephen M Fleming  · 27 Apr 2021

Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

by Kevin Davies  · 5 Oct 2020  · 741pp  · 164,057 words

Thinking Machines: The Inside Story of Artificial Intelligence and Our Race to Build the Future

by Luke Dormehl  · 10 Aug 2016  · 252pp  · 74,167 words

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by Christian Davenport  · 6 Sep 2025  · 441pp  · 127,950 words