TED Talk: Sleep Is Your Superpower
Matt Walker, a sleep scientist, discusses the benefits of sleep, such as memory, learning, and immune system,
as well as the detrimental impacts of a lack of sleep on mental and physical health.
Videos — Kaiser Permanente's Video Library
This video library is open to everyone, even non-members. There is a wide selection of educational, exercise, and guided meditation videos.
Video — How a Brain Injury Made me Smarter
Ann Zuccardy offers candid, witty conversation about life's challenging moments and meeting them
with creativity and humor. She provides insights gleaned from her personal struggle after a traumatic
brain injury (TBI) changed her life.
CNN Video — CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta elaborates on what a
concussion is, symptoms, and recovery.
Concussions: Don't Hide It, Report It, Take Time to Recover
National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA)
This video from the NCAA about concussions includes symptoms, stories, and
suggests you get checked out if you suspect you've suffered a concussion.
Support Groups
Bridging the Gap Support Group - Tuesdays in person and on Zoom
Support Group Meeting for survivors, caregivers, family and friends — 9:00 AM
Caregiver Meeting — 11:00 AM
For more info, please call Celeste Palmer at (909) 260-0980.
Christ Church Parish ~ 1127 N. San Antonio Ave. Ontario, California 91762
St. Jude Brain Injury Network - A program of St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, TBI OC serves survivors of brain injury. "We can help you pick up the pieces."
This active community provides classes at no charge on Cognitive Rehabilitation, Regulating Emotions, and Music Therapy.
Help is also provided on reintegration into the community, education, and housing.
Jodi House - Jodi House EMPOWERS brain injury survivors to not merely survive, but THRIVE.
No one is ever turned away from Jodi House because of the inability to pay. The Santa Barbara based group
provides day programs, caregiver support, and connections to a host of resources.
Hey Peers
Daily web-conferencing peer support groups for people experiencing mental health difficulties who are looking for live, confidential support and "I've been there" understanding. SGC groups come via smart phone, tablet, or computer. No driving to a brick and mortar location. Groups can be easily accessed from anywhere.
Brain and Brawn: Sports Illustrated Special Report ~ December 14, 2015
by Tom Taylor
This insightful article explores the different types of brain injuries that can be caused by sports-related concussions, and tells us some "chronic" conditions are actually treatable. Archived Issue
Concussion in Sports
This pamphlet from the American College of Sports Medicine provides information on what may cause a concussion as well as the symptoms to look out for.
Concussion Toolkit for Parents, Players, and Coaches
The Concussion Awareness Training Tool provides a wealth of information on how to provide support, as well as tips on concussion recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and management.
HEADS UP to Youth Sports: Online Training
This online course from the CDC offers student athletes, parents, coaches and educators the opportunity to learn a broad range of TBI topics, including how to prevent and respond to these injuries.
What to Expect
This guide from the Brain Injury Association of America discusses what adults can expect when living with a TBI. Children's TBI
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Is it better to fight the good fight or live a good life? Amazon.com
Being With Rachel: A Personal Story of Memory and Survival
by Karen Brennan Amazon.com
Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice
edited by Nathan D. Zasler, M.D.l Douglas I. Katz, M.D.; and Ross D. Zafonte Amazon.com Google Books - Read the entire textbook for free!
Brain Repair
by Donald G. Stein, Simon Brailowsky, and Bruno Will Amazon.com
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by Norman Doidge Amazon.com
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
by Norman Doidge
Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology
Author of The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge comes out with a revolutionary new book which shows how the amazing
process of neuroplastic healing really works. The Brain's Way of Healing describes natural, noninvasive avenues into the brain
provided by the energy around us — in light, sound, vibration, and movement — that can awaken the brain's own healing
capacities without producing unpleasant side effects. Doidge explores cases where patients alleviated chronic pain; recovered from
debilitating strokes, brain injuries, and learning disorders; overcame attention deficit and learning disorders; and found relief from
symptoms of autism, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and cerebral palsy. Doidge uses stories to present cutting-edge science
with practical real-world applications, and principles that everyone can apply to improve their brain's performance and health. Amazon.com
The Brain Wellness Plan
by Jay Lombard and Carl Germano Amazon.com
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries: 101 Stories of Hope, Healing, and Hard Work
by Amy Newmark (Author), Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein (Author), Lee Woodruff (Foreword)
featuring a story by our own Celeste Palmer Amazon.com
Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
by Diane Roberts Stoler and Barbara Albers Hill
A comprehensive guide for improving memory, focus, and quality of life in the aftermath of a concussion.
Often presenting itself after a head trauma, concussion — or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) — can cause chronic migraines, depression, memory, and sleep problems that can last for years, referred to as post concussion syndrome (PCS).
Neuropsychologist and concussion survivor Dr. Diane Roberts Stoler is the authority on all aspects of the recovery process. Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury is a lifeline for patients, parents, and other caregivers. Author's Website | Amazon.com
Crooked Smile: One Family's Journey Toward Healing
by Lainie Cohen Amazon.com
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
by Leonard Mlodinow
Author and theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow elaborates on how using elastic thinking in an ever-changing world,
or in any period of transition, can be constructive to one's success in confronting change. Amazon.com
Erasing the Sky and Creating a New Horizon: Living Life After a Traumatic Brain Injury
by Jamie Polites Amazon.com
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Novel
by Tim Laskowski Amazon.com
The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
by Clark Elliott, Ph.D.
In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully recover. After eight years, the cognitive demands of his job, and of being a single parent, finally became more than he could manage. As a result of one final effort to recover, he crossed paths with two brilliant Chicago-area research-clinicians — one an optometrist emphasizing neurodevelopmental techniques, the other a cognitive psychologist — working on the leading edge of brain plasticity. Within weeks the ghost of who he had been started to re-emerge. Author's Website | Amazon.com
Head Injury: The Facts
by Dorothy Gronwall, Philip Wrightson, and Peter Waddell Amazon.com
Head Injury (The Facts)
by Audrey Daisley, Rachel Tams, and Udo Kischka Amazon.com
I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia
by Su Meck with Daniel de Visé
The courageous memoir of a woman who was robbed of all her memories by a traumatic brain injury--and her more than twenty-five-year struggle to reclaim her life: "[A tale] of triumph in the search for identity" (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1988, Su Meck was twenty-two and married with two children when a ceiling fan fell and struck her on the head, erasing all her memories of her life. Although her body healed rapidly, her memories never returned. After just three weeks in the hospital, her physicians released Su and she returned home to take care of her two toddlers. What would you do if you lost your past?
Adrift in a world about which she understood almost nothing, Su became an adept mimic, gradually creating routines and rituals that sheltered her and her family from the near-daily threat of disaster — or so she thought. Though Su would eventually relearn to tie her shoes, cook a meal, read, and write, nearly twenty years would pass before a series of personally devastating events shattered the "normal" life she had worked so hard to build, and she realized that she would have to grow up all over again.
In her own indelible voice, Su offers a unique view from the inside of a terrible injury as she "recounts her grueling climb back to normalcy...in this heart-wrenching true story" (O, The Oprah Magazine). Piercing, heartbreaking, but finally uplifting, I Forgot to Remember is the story of a woman determined to live life on her own terms. Amazon.com
I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?
by Suzy Becker Amazon.com Google Books - Read the first 155 pages for free!
Keep Your Brain Alive
by Lawrence C. Katz and Manning Rubin Amazon.com Google Books - Read the first 19 pages for free!
Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal
by Anthony William
Anthony William, Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated or that doctors can't resolve.
He's done this by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what lies at the root of people's pain or illness, and what they need to do to restore
their health. His methods achieve spectacular results, even for those who have spent years and many thousands of dollars on all forms of medicine before turning to him.
Now, in this revolutionary book, he opens the door to all he has learned over his 25 years of bringing people's lives back: a massive amount of healing information, much of
which science won't discover for decades and most of which has never appeared anywhere before. Medical Medium reveals the root causes of diseases and conditions that
medical communities either misunderstand or struggle to understand at all. It explores all-natural solutions for dozens of the illnesses that plague us, including Lyme disease,
fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, hormonal imbalances, Hashimoto's disease, multiple sclerosis, depression, neurological conditions, chronic inflammation,
autoimmune disease, blood-sugar imbalances, colitis and other digestive disorders, and more. It also offers solutions for restoring the soul and spirit after illness has torn at our
emotional fabric. Whether you've been given a diagnosis you don't understand, or you have symptoms you don't know how to name, or someone you love is sick, or you want to
care for your own patients better, Medical Medium offers the answers you need. It's also a guidebook for everyone seeking the secrets to living longer, healthier lives. "The truth
about the world, ourselves, life, purpose — it all comes down to healing," Anthony William writes. "And the truth about healing is now in your hands." Author's Website | Amazon.com
Mindstorms: The Complete Guide for Families Living with Traumatic Brain Injury
by John W. Cassidy, M.D. Amazon.com
My Life, Deleted: A Memoir
by Scott Bolzan, Joan Bolzan and Caitlan Rother
After slipping and hitting his head, Scott was diagnosed with one of the most severe cases of profound retrograde amnesia on record. Now, with unflinching candor, he and his wife, Joan,
tell the inspiring story of how they faced a real-life nightmare, and then started anew. Family's Website | Amazon.com
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor Book Website | Amazon.com
Neuroplasticity: Exercises to Improve Cognitive Flexibility, Conquer Trauma & PTSD, Change Bad Habits, Eliminate Depression, and So Much More
by Adrian Winship
Author Adrian Winship explains how applying findings and strategies based on neuroplasticity can improve quality of life. Amazon.com
Parenting Myself
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne Amazon.com
Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury
edited by Walter M. High, Jr; Angelle M. Sander; Margaret A. Struchen; and Karen A. Hart Amazon.com Google Books - Read the first 143 pages for free!
Relentless: How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better
by Ted W. Baxter Author's Website | Amazon.com
The Smile on My Forehead: Memoir of My Life with a Brain Injury
by Jennifer Mosher Amazon.com
TBI Hell: A Traumatic Brain Injury Really Sucks
by Geo Gosling Amazon.com Google Books - Read the first 110 pages for free!
The Traumatized Brain, A family guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury
by Vani Rao, MBBS, MD, and Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD
A traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event, affecting an individual's lifestyle, ability to work, relationships-even personality. Whatever caused it — car crash, work accident, sports injury, domestic violence, combat
— a severe blow to the head results in acute and, often, lasting symptoms. People with brain injury benefit from understanding, patience, and assistance in recovering their bearings and functioning to their full abilities.
In The Traumatized Brain, neuropsychiatrists Drs. Vani Rao and Sandeep Vaishnavi — experts in helping people heal after head trauma — explain how traumatic brain injury, whether mild, moderate, or severe,
affects the brain. They advise readers on how emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety, mania, and apathy can be treated; how behavioral symptoms such as psychosis, aggression, impulsivity, and sleep disturbances
can be addressed; and how cognitive functions like attention, memory, executive functioning, and language can be improved. They also discuss headaches, seizures, vision problems, and other neurological symptoms of traumatic brain injury.
By stressing that symptoms are real and are directly related to the trauma, Rao and Vaishnavi hope to restore dignity to people with traumatic brain injury and encourage them to ask for help. Each chapter incorporates case
studies and suggestions for appropriate medications, counseling, and other treatments and ends with targeted tips for coping. The book also includes a useful glossary, a list of resources, and suggestions for further reading. Amazon.com
Unscripted: A Guide to Living Spontaneously After Amnesia & Brain Trauma
by Celeste Palmer and Chef Myron Norman
Celeste Palmer is like a Phoenix. When she loses 50 years of her memory after a driver ran a stop sign and crashed into her vehicle, Celeste was forced to start over-literally. Now, years after amnesia and becoming one of the world's most recognized brain trauma educators, Celeste has called upon her own mentee, Chef Myron Norman, to reveal the most intimate details about her recovery and the tools she needed to rise to the top. Amazon.com
Unthinkable: A Mother's Tragedy, Terror and Triumph through a Child's Traumatic Brain Injury
by Dixie Coskie Amazon.com
Where Is the Mango Princess?
by Cathy Crimmins Amazon.com
• Century City
Dr. Tina Macdonald: low vision specialist
Laura at front desk
Website: www.westernuhealth.com/los-angeles/
2080 Century Park East, Suite 800
Los Angeles, California 90067
Phone: (310) 271-0120
Stress Reduction • Relaxation • Energy Balancing
at Acupuncture and Pain Clinic
491-A N. Central Ave.
Upland, CA 91786
Phone: (909) 946-8306
Announcing Change of Location:
Lori has moved her practice to Dr. Ray Chen's acupuncture clinic in Upland. Dr. Chen is a
highly respected acupuncturist, with over 30 years of experience. Reiki and acupuncture are
integrative therapies widely used to treat stress, pain, anxiety, and depression. These two
therapies are now offered locally in one office. Most insurances accepted for acupuncture visits.
Summer Hours: Tuesday and Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm
Acupuncture and Pain Clinic
491-A N. Central Ave.
Upland, CA 91786
Phone: (909) 946-8306
Dr. Chen is a
highly respected acupuncturist, with over 30 years of experience. Acupuncture is an
integrative therapy widely used to treat stress, pain, anxiety, and depression. Most insurances accepted.
Summer Hours: Tuesday and Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm
• Los Osos, California
2231 Bayview Heights Dr.
Phone: (805) 528-5333
Fax: (805) 528-7723
• Paso Robles, California
1112 Vine St.
Phone: (805) 238-1001
Fax: (805) 237-1057
• Templeton, California
Central Coast Vision and Learning
with Drs Nancy J. Major and W. Ross Major
1050 Las Tablas Road, Suite 4
Phone: (805) 239-7488
Fax: (805) 738-3130
Email: ccvisionlearning@gmail.com
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation
1798 N. Garey Avenue
Pomona, CA 91767
Phone: (909) 865-9810
Email: amy.newmark@pvhmc.org
Easy to work with, very knowledgeable about brain injury and vision issues and the corrections that work i.e.: yoked prism assessment and color tinted lenses. Very proactive in working with insurance.
Orange Education Center (OEC), Santiago Canyon College Division of Continuing Education
As part of Santiago Canyon College's Division of Continuing Education, the Orange Education Center
provides free classes in English as a Second Language (ESL), adult basic education, Programs for Older
Adults, Adults with Disabilities, and more. The OEC also offers additional services, such as assessment
services, personal, academic, and career counseling, and orientation services.
Website: www.nld.org/orange-education-center-santiago-canyon-college
Right At Home
Dan McGuire - Owner
In-home care and assistance for loved ones - everything from bathing to medical care, light housekeeping to companionship.
Lori Bleich ~ Reiki Master Practitioner
Stress Reduction • Relaxation • Energy Balancing
at Acupuncture and Pain Clinic
491-A N. Central Ave.
Upland, CA 91786
Phone: (909) 946-8306
Announcing Change of Location:
Lori has moved her practice to Dr. Ray Chen's acupuncture clinic in Upland. Dr. Chen is a
highly respected acupuncturist, with over 30 years of experience. Reiki and acupuncture are
integrative therapies widely used to treat stress, pain, anxiety, and depression. These two
therapies are now offered locally in one office. Most insurances accepted for acupuncture visits.
Summer Hours: Tuesday and Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm
Salt Therapy Spa
Salt Oasis
11940 Foothill Blvd, Suite 111
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
Phone: (909) 291-7258
Website: SaltOasis.com
Begin Again Ranch - helping Brain Injury Survivors and their families rebuild confidence and tackle new challenges.
This horse ranch in Colorado is a safe and contained environment for you to identify, accept and overcome the obstacles on your road to recovery. Terri and her equine co-facilitators will guide you on your journey of self discovery.
Brainline.org - preventing, treating, and living with traumatic brain injury.
BrainLine is a national multimedia project offering information and resources about preventing, treating, and living with TBI. BrainLine includes a series of webcasts, an electronic newsletter, and an extensive outreach campaign in partnership with national organizations concerned about traumatic brain injury.
BrainlineMilitary.org - Help for service members, veterans,
national guard, reserve, and their families dealing with traumatic brain injury.
Brainstorming4Us - offering encouragement and resources for families and survivors
who have been thrown into the unknown world of traumatic brain injury.
Jumbled Brain -
TBI-survivor Michelle Munt's blog contains many helpful articles, and she provides coaching and consultation for those looking for
solutions to their situation.
National Caregivers Library -
another site with many helpful articles regarding caring for someone with disabilities. This website focuses on things
caregivers need to know about, such as housing and transportation issues.
National Center for Learning Disabilities -
Use this interactive tool to detect potential signs of LDs or an attention issue in your child or student. Then use the resources
provided to learn more. This site also offers many other resources.
Neurofeedback Centers for Success - Drug-Free Solutions for Children and Adults with Phenomenal Results!
Whether you need to remedy an impairment or want to refine and
improve already successful brain function, the Neurofeedback
Centers for Success offer non-invasive, drug-free solutions
for children and adults.
Hey Peers - Daily web-conferencing peer support groups for people experiencing mental health difficulties who are looking for live, confidential support and "I've been there" understanding. SGC groups come via smart phone, tablet, or computer. No driving to a brick and mortar location. Groups can be easily accessed from anywhere.
We Connect Now - connecting and integrating college students with disabilities as a virtual community with a voice on important issues.
The We Connect Now website has been up and serving college students with disabilities since April of 2008.