Getting Your Brain and Body Back: Everything You Need to Know after Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, or Traumatic Brain Injury

Copyright © 2021 by Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD

Foreword © 2021 by Eric Topol, MD

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Berk, Bradford C., author. | Murphy, Martha W., author.

Title: Getting your brain and body back : everything you need to know after spinal cord injury, stroke, or traumatic brain injury / Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD with Martha W. Murphy ; foreword by Eric Topol, MD.

Description: New York : The Experiment, 2021. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021008686 (print) | LCCN 2021008687 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Movement disorders--Patients--Rehabilitation. | Mind and body therapies. | Spinal cord--Diseases. | Neuroplasticity.

Classification: LCC RC376.5 .B47 2021 (print) | LCC RC376.5 (ebook) | DDC 616.8/3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008686

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008687

Ebook ISBN 978-1-61519-696-8

Cover and text design by Jack Dunnington

Author photograph by Matt Wittmeyer

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