Via National Stroke Association, a short video [http://www.themoreyouknow.com/stroke-prevention/#] and a fact sheet that remind of the warning signs of stroke and what to do if you experience them. It's no fun living through a stroke, so it's worth a few minutes of…
[http://schultzmt.wordpress.com/files/2010/01/2009holidaycard.gif] I never put my holiday greeting for 2009 out here, and I should have. There were lots of things to be thankful for and to celebrate this year, and I'm looking to another great year. Sorry if I missed…
> The cause of Peace's stroke is still unknown. He spent Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas that year in Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas in California with no use of his right side. After months in outpatient care at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, he could walk only with…
> So, the New Year not yet arrived, I’ve begun incorporating my resolutions into life a little early. Overcoming fear and doubt are perhaps rather ambiguous goals, but if living with a generalized anxiety of failure is possible, I assume the opposite, living with a generalized sense of purpose…
The Irish Times [http://ow.ly/KXzm] reports that video games are stimulating to the brain > A multidisciplinary team of neuroscientists at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, has discovered that video games increase brain activity. The team, consisting of neuroscientist and engineer Dr Philip Zeman, behavioural…
> Brain Injury Dialogues reveals many invisible aspects of this disability; viewers see the wide range of deficits that survivors must face, both physically and mentally, and learn how no two brain injuries are alike. > It's an accurate, sympathetic, and empowering depiction of 5 survivors, including coauthor…
Just caught wind of this movie via @BrainLine on Twitter. Will be interested to see this both for what it is and because I've seen Professor Kandel as a host of Charlie Rose's Brain Series. > "Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,"…
From the Web Site of the same name, a campaign to let people with paralysis define themselves and tell the world: > All too often people try to define someone living with a spinal cord injury by the wheelchair -- rather than by their accomplishments, sense of humor, dreams for…