The medical links on this page contain information about Pat's current diagnosis'.  If you find additional sites, please e-mail them to the web author for inclusion here.

Centre for Neuro Skills Website
This is a link to an informative site with articles on Brain Injuries

"Oh Say Can You Say" The Brain and Language
This site is geared towards children (neuroscience 101) which makes it easier for lay persons such as myself to understand.  It is very informative and also contains links to several other resources containing information on aphasia

The Neuroscience on the Web Series:
SPPA 336, Neuropathologies of Language and Cognition
This site is a course on neuroscience.  Is is other informative resource concerning aphasia with numerous links to other informational neuroscience sites.

The Brain Injury Association, Inc.

Basic & clear information on brain injury for nonmedical-people from The Brain Injury Association, Inc. Go directly to their table of contents. Or go directly to their section on Treatment and Rehabilitation.

More resources (associations, institutes & etc):

• Brain Injury Association, Inc. Voice: (800) 444-6443 http://www.biausa.org
• Indepth information from the National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/nidcd/health/pubs_vsl/tbrain.htm
• NIDCD Health Information on Traumatic Brain Injury: http://www.nih.gov/nidcd/textonly/health/pubs_vsl/tbrain.htm

  sample information from this site: "What Is Traumatic Brain Injury? Traumatic brain injury is sudden physical damage to the brain. In addition to focal damage, closed head injuries frequently cause diffuse brain injuries or damage to several other areas of the brain."

• American Academy of Neurology: http://www.aan.com
• Rehabilitation of Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/tbi.html
• Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury: Search site: http://text.nlm.nihgov/rindex/dbaccess/tbisum

  If you use the word "trauma" in the search above, you'll find a lengthy and informative article on brain injury.

• Waiting.com is a web site dedicated to providing answers to immediate questions regarding a loved one in a coma. Yea!! Pat's not in a coma anymore!! Still, the information may be useful. See: http://www.waiting.com/waitingres.html for their additional links for information on brain injury.

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Voice: (800) 638-8255: http://www.asha.org
• National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders Speech and Hearing Sciences: http://cnet.shs.arizona.edu
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): www.nimh.nih.gov

Books About Brain Injury:

• Communication Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury ISBN 0-86377-724-4 / June 1999 / 352pp. / $59.95 / hbk
• For more related books , see: Psychology Press
• Current Bibliographies in Medicine: Rehabilitation Of Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury -10/22/98: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct98/od-22.htm