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Understanding Brain Injury

(Overview, causes, definitions, statistics, demographics, effects, fact sheets, etc.)

Living with Brain Injury; brain injury facts from the Brain Injury Association of America.
http://www.biausa.org/living-with-brain-injury.htm 
 
Traumatic Brain Injury National Resource Center 
http://www.neuro.pmr.vcu.edu/
 
Brain Injury Resource Foundation –Vast listing of links on prevention, education, advocacy, support.  
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/TBI.htm

The Missouri Greenbook, Living with Brain Injury. The goal of this book is to provide anyone touched by brain injury with information and resources to assist with the journey of recovery. http://www.dhss.mo.gov/SHCNpdfs/TBIGuideGreenBook.pdf

Fact sheet about TBI created by the CDC contains up-to-date information about the incidence, causes, risk factors, and cost associated with TBI in the United States. English sheet  
 http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/FactSheets/Facts_About_TBI.pdf
 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tbi/tbi.htm

National Institutes of Health
 
Mayo Clinic information on Brain Injury
 
 
Brain Injury Resource Center * Useful information on all aspects of brain injury
http://www.headinjury.com/welcome.htm
 
Center for Neuroskills TBI Resource Guide
 
Acquired brain injury coalition
http://www.brain-injury-resource.com/
 
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Traumatic Brain Injury Model System.  Site has tip sheets on wheelchair positioning, swallowing, walking, pressure relief, etc.
 
Traumatic Brain Injury and Public Services in Michigan (Training Module)
http://www.mitbitraining.org/
 
Preventing, treating, and living with traumatic brain injury. – Has recently posted articles.
http://www.brainline.org/
 
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC, various articles and other info.
http://www.mssm.edu/tbicentral/
 
The New York On-line Access to Health Librarians and health professionals in New York and beyond find, select, and organize full-text consumer health information that is current, relevant, accurate and unbiased. NOAH provides quality consumer health information in English and Spanish. 
http://www.noah-health.org/