Brain Storms: Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury

by John Cassidy

Book by Cassidy, John

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

John Cassidy is a journalist at The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era and lives in New York City.

Reviews

[GT · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent, excellent book that I read 20 years ago - I wonder if it continues to be updated but I found my copy the other day and consider this book ahead of its time and was invaluable to me. It was given to me by a hospital director where my father was treated for traumatic brain injury. Although he had an outstanding surgeon who saved his life (twice), I was at a loss because the surgeon's prognosis and the actual reality of my dad's progress just didn't match. When I read this book, I gained a much better understanding of why this might happen - the "microscopic" tears in the brain that are practically invisible on an x-ray, cat scan, etc. - and how this actually translates to real life (much less recovery than expected). In other words, the author was able to dive in to very nuanced and very thorough analysis of what can happen to the brain. It is an incredible book!

[Pixismiler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book about the fascinating brain.