Impact Video
"Broken Rhymes": Narrated by Richard Burton, this video demonstrates the devastation of brain injury as it affects young adults and their families. (57 minutes, Transitional Learning Center, Texas)
"Coma": A real-life drama about a neurosurgeon and critical intervention practices he uses to treat brain injury in the acute stages. Profiles a few cases and follows one child from the emergency stage to his hospital discharge. Discusses developing universal treatment techniques to improve outcomes. (60 minutes, NOVA, WGBH, Boston)
"Humanizing Brain Injury": Discusses statistics related to brain injury during the child, teen and adult stages of life. This video can be used in prevention programs. (13 minutes, Brain Injury Association, 2000)
"Stress, Trauma and the Brain": How does the brain work, why does it break down, and how can it be healed? In section one of this program, doctors from Harvard Medical School and other eminent institutions study the chronic psychological stress of modern living in light of the innate fight-or-flight mechanism. In section two, a pioneer in brain imaging technology and experts from Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT describe revolutionary imaging techniques and their applications to brain tumor surgery and facial recognition research. In section three, a neurosurgeon, a neuropsychologist, and other medical professionals investigate brain trauma - "the silent epidemic" - by focusing on two cases: Pat LaFontaine, a hockey star permanently sidelined after his 6th concussion, and a survivor of a major car accident. (57 minutes, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1999)
"The Outside to the Inside": Including Students with Brain Injury. This video outlines a process that administrators, teachers and other school personnel, along with parents and students, can use to help ease the transition back to school after a brain injury. This video emphasizes a process for addressing the student's needs, rather than a specific set of recommendations. The process involves observation and data collection, developing and testing hypotheses and evaluating the effects of various efforts. (23 minutes, The University of Iowa, 2001)
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