Nervous System category: 536 books
29 Gifts
How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
After a devastating MS diagnosis, one woman shares her inspirational journey in gratitude and generosity--in this New York Times bestseller.
At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by an intensified struggle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that left her debilitated...
by Alison Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
What do you do when the most important person in your life is about to die?Who can help you?How do you keep going?When Alison Murdoch's husband catches viral encephalitis and falls into a life-threatening coma, everything changes. 'Bed 12' is a survival guide to the world of acute medicine, and a poignant...
How to Cure Headaches, Migraines, Peripheral Neuropathy, and Fibromyalgia.
SHORT STORY # 46. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
What is a natural cure for her headaches, migraines, peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia? Earlier civilizations developed knowledge and information by observing natural world around them.
Even today, less developing countries are relying for all their health cures on herbal natural medicine....
Lucky Man
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease.
"Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox
In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned...
Until I Say Good-Bye
A Book About Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—Lou Gehrig's disease—an irreversible condition that systematically destroys the nerves that power the muscles. She was forty-four years old, with a devoted husband and three young children, and she had only...
by Rick Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A multi-platinum rock star’s life meets an unexpected detour when a bump on the head reveals itself to be a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Told with honesty and humor, Lame Brain is Rick Roberts’ story of his entangled afflictions of TBI and Alcoholism.Approximately 1.7 million people experience...
Nasty, Brutish, and Long
Adventures in Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
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A candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare
In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo,...
Unforgettable Journey
Tips to Survive Your Parent's Alzheimer's Disease Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
"There are many books written about Alzheimer's disease. The concise nature and easy readability of this book will make it an effective tool for family members with a parent who has dementia. The upbeat nature and 'Tips' section at the end of each chapter helps the book read in much the same...
Journey Through Brain Trauma
A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Journey Through Brain Trauma is the true story of Louise Morningstar's struggle to help her daughter recover from devastating brain damage. The Morningstars' heroic story will inspire and inform all those who are struggling with rehabilitation from a brain injury.
I'm Still Here
A New Philosophy of Alzheimer's Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
A revolutionary new approach to Alzheimer’s care, focusing on a patient’s strengths to maintain connections with others and the world
There currently is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease— though it can be treated. For the last fifteen years, John Zeisel, Ph.D. has spearheaded a movement...
by Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The most up-to-date resource on nutritional supplements for the prevention and improved management of concussive injury, TBI, and PTSD
• Provides an easy-to-follow program of supplements to optimize the benefits of treatment programs and offer a method of prevention beyond the use of helmets
•...
Different Strokes
An Intimate Memoir for Stroke Survivors, Families, and Care Givers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Strokes are the third-leading cause of death in America, and for the lucky’ stroke victims who don’t die, about half will spend the rest of their lives trying to recover.” Roughly 700,000 American suffer a stroke each year and around 140,000 of them are fatal. Different Strokes is an in-depth...
Patient H69
The Story of My Second Sight
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your fingertips are turning numb, and, as the world closes in around you, you realise there is nothing you can do to stop it. This is what happened to Vanessa Potter.
In the space of 72 hours,...