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• American Academy of Neurology
• American Stroke Association, is a division of the American Heart Association. Their Web site has information about risk assessment, prevention, treatment, recovery, caregiving, stroke family support information, and the usual "e;other."e;
• The Brain Attack Coalition, (six organizations—American Heart, National Stroke, National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, American Academy of Neurology, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the Stroke Belt Consortium). Their Web site includes print material and Audio-Visual material.
• Brain Injury Association of Canada [Canada]
• Brain Injury Association of America, McLean, VA
• British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC) [United Kingdom]
• Centre for Neuro Skills
• Headway, the brain injury association [United Kingdom]
• Institute for Cognitive Prosthetics provides papers and publications from their research. For example, “Computer-Based Cognitive Prosthetics: Assistive technology for the Treatment of Cognitive Disabilities” (ACM SIG/CAPH, 1998) by Elliot Cole, Ph.D. and Parto Dehdashti, Ph.D.
• Manitoba Brain Injury Association [Canada]
• Neuro-Imaging Laboratories of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology – Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
• Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute at Brookhaven Hospital The Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute (NRI) offers multiple mid- and long-term programs and services for adults age 18 and older with a primary diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury or other acquired neurological problem. NRI is housed within Brookhaven Hospital, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and also consists of two transitional living centers within short distances of the hospital.
• Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute of Ontario a program to assist persons with moderate to severe brain injuries and other neurological impairments in achieving success in increasing their level of independence. [Canada]
• Neurological Disorders Index
• Traumatic Brain Injury Associations
• For those interested in the history of psychiatry in America, see a book published by John Wiley called "The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness". As described by the author, Jack El-Hai, it is "…[the] biography of Walter Freeman, the infamous neurologist and promoter of frontal lobotomy who operated on Rosemary Kennedy in 1941." – 30 January 2005

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