Highlights from Incognito
Here are some insights from neuroscience: based on David Eagleman’s wonderful book Incognito Our experience of the world is a construction of our brains. The brain produces a useful and Continue Reading →
Author Archives: Pierre Morin
Process & the Heart & Soul of Change
Nature and life are in constant motion and change. Stillness and stuckness are an illusion. But then why is that we feel hopeless when we are depressed and why is Continue Reading →
Healing Environment
Health Inequality
Homesickness
Just finished calling my brother. He and his family are in the Swiss Alps skiing. I just had my first bout of homesickness in 13 years of being in the Continue Reading →
Brain injury and gender roles
Check Sharon A Gutman’s book on brain injury and gender role strains: Rebuilding adult lifestyles after brain injuries I will also be hosting a research symposium on brain injury recovery Continue Reading →
Minimal Cues and Fragmentary Behaviors
An Introduction to Process-oriented Coma Work Methods in Persistent Vegetative States and Coma. From my work as a head of a brain injury department in one of Switzerland’s leading rehabilitation Continue Reading →
“Inside Coma: A New View of Awareness, Healing, and Hope” is now available!
As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the American with Disability Act this book reminds us of one of the last bastions of forgotten and marginalized individuals: people in coma Continue Reading →
Coma and Various Types of Brain Injuries
Coma can be a result of either structural damage to the brain (traumatic brain injury, stroke, hypoxic damage to the brain) or metabolic changes such as from diabetes, renal failure, Continue Reading →
From the Introduction to Inside Coma
What is coma? What is a vegetative state? What are the possibilities for consciousness in coma? What makes a life worth living? In the wake of Terri Schiavo’s publicly debated Continue Reading →