Journal page from the early days of Lauren Marks' recovery

For more information about aneurysms and/or aphasia:

National Aphasia Association

The Brain Aneurysm Foundation


Some trusted sources in medical and threrpeutic interventions:

Justine Sherman and Associates, Speech and Language Pathology

USC Keck School of Medicine, Neurosurgery

Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland

California State University at Northridge, Department of Communications Disorders and Sciences


Abridged Reading List about Aphasia, Language and Neurology:

Aphasia Handbook, Joan Peters, Martha Taylor Sarno (Editors)
A Guide for Stroke And Injury Survivors And Their Families

One Hundred Names for Love:
A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
by Diane Ackerman

The Tell-Tale Brain:
A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
by V. S. Ramachandran

The Language Instinct:
How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)
by Steven Pinker

Aphasiology:
Disorders and Clinical Practice (2nd Edition)
by G. Albyn Davis

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