Overview of Brain Injury
Mindstorms: Living with Traumatic Brain Injury by John W. Cassidy
- The best book to give you a quick overview
Head injury (The Facts) by Audrey Daisley
- Quick overview
Successfully Surviving a Brain Injury: A Family Guidebook, From the Emergency Room to Selecting a Rehabilitation Facility by Garry Prowe
- What families might need to know the first few days and weeks after an injury
Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury by Walter M. High
- A clinical overview of what to expect when a survivor begins rehabilitation
Clinical Practice, Scientific Research, and Policy
Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice by Nathan Zasler MD, FAAPM&R, FAADEP, DAAPM
- Clinical practice and scientific research
Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury : Devastation, Hope, and Healing by William J. Winslade
- A look at brain injury from a public policy and health insurance perspective
Missing Pieces: Mending the Head Injury Family by Marilyn Colter Maxwell
- Addresses family challenges when a loved one has a head injury
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
- A description of the remarkable plasticity of the brain
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss
- Dealing with the emotional aspect of the loss
Personal Narratives
Over My Head: A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out by Claudia L. Osborn
- A survivor telling her story of recovery
I’ll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury by Kara L. Swanson
- One of the best survivor narratives
Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury by Lynsey Calderwood
- Survivor narrative
TBI Hell: A Traumatic Brain Injury Really Sucks by Geo Gosling
- Survivor memoir – directed at young men
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Novel by Tim Laskowski
- Survivor narrative directed at young men
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformationby Barbara Arrowsmith-Young and Norman Doidge
- Survivor narrative and scientific findings
LEFT Neglected by Lisa Genova
- Survivor narrative
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
- Survivor narrative
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
- Survivor narrative
Don’t Leave Me This Way by Julia Fox Garrison
- Survivor narrative
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
- Survivor narrative
Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury by Cathy Crimmins
- Caregiver narrative
Being with Rachel: A Personal Story of Memory and Survival by Karen Brennan
- Caregiver narrative
Crooked Smile: One Family’s Journey Toward Healing by Lainie Cohen
- Caregiver narrative
A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
- Caregiver narrative