The Man Who Slept for 19 Years

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Websites

Brain Help
www.brainhelp.co.uk
Offers support for patients and their families overcoming physical, mental and social difficulties experienced as a result of a brain injury, or a related condition. The website has contact details.

Brain Plasticity
http://enchantedmind.com/html/science
/brain_plasticity.html
Article that looks at how plasticity is thought to work in the human brain.

Rewiring the Brain
www.action.org.uk/touching_lives/2004/
summer/rewiring_the_brain/
A research programme in Newcastle has shown that if damage occurs to a baby's or young infant's brain, its functions can be reorganised and any effects of brain damage can be greatly reduced.

Stem cells could repair brain damage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health
/2673343.stm
Scientists have found that immature cells from bone marrow are able to travel to the brain and become fully functioning brain cells. This could inspire novel treatments for brain injury.

Organisations

Child Brain Injury Trust
The Radcliffe Infirmary
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6HE
Tel: 01865 552467
Helpline: 0845 6014 939
E-mail: info@cbituk.org
Website: www.cbituk.org/
Aims to improve the quality of life for all children and young people with a brain injury. The website has a good FAQ section and some useful diagrams of the brain and its functions.

Headway
4 King Edward Court
King Edward Street
Nottingham
NG1 1EW
Tel: 0115 9240 800
Helpline: 0808 8002 244 (9am-5pm Monday to Friday, 9am-7pm Wednesday)
E-mail: enquiries@headway.org.uk
Website: www.headway.org.uk
Provides information, support and services to people with a brain injury, to their family and to carers. The website has information, personal injury solicitors and details of local groups.

Books

	Apprentices of Wonder: Inside the neural network revolution William F Allman (Bantam Books, 1990) Accessible book on the scientists who are creating startling new theories of how the mind works. Get this book
	Brain Repair by Donald G Stein, Simon Brailowsky and Bruno Will (Oxford University Press, 1997) Written in a highly readable style, the book looks at how the damaged brain can be repaired and reconstructed and covers the field of neuroplasticity. Get this book
	Head Injury: The facts by Dorothea Gronwall, P Wrightson and P Waddell (Oxford University Press, 1998) The authors of this book have had many years' experience working with head-injured people in both research and rehabilitation roles. The effects of injury are explained in non-technical terms and, where possible, practical ways of overcoming these effects are described. Get this book
	Over My Head: A doctor's own story of head injury from the inside looking out by Claudia L Osborn (Sheed and Ward, 1998) Autobiographical account that details a physician's experience from the moment of impact in a car accident to her remarkable comeback to resumption of teaching and research responsibilities. Her story shows the effect of a severe head injury on behaviour and personality. Get this book

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