The Listings and Tables of Information on this website

Welcome to these lists of resources for brain health patients, families, caregivers and professionals.
You may have just finished your appointment with your caregiver or therapist and wonder where to find information about your diagnosis. The website includes these lists.


1. There is a table listing four medication discount services which work with pharmacies and may save you 10% or more on your prescription. If your pharmacist does not offer the information, ask them.
There are 339 different diagnoses explained in this website. If I could find them in my research for the website,
they are each cited on these lists or tables:


2. There is a brief definition of each diagnosis, using the format, “What is . . . (the name of the diagnosis).


3. There is a Wikipedia article, usually 5-10 pages with more background on the diagnosis.


4. There is a YouTube video, typically lasting between 5 and 10 minutes. When possible, someone living with 
the diagnosis is featured. If I could not find that, I included comments from professionals about the diagnosis.


5. If you wish to learn more, there will be a book about your diagnosis, written in language patients and their families can understand with as little medical jargon as possible. You may be able to get a copy free from your local library. Or the library may be able to borrow it for you on “interlibrary loan” at either no cost or mailing cost. If your library cannot get the book, or you are sensitive about others who may learn of your diagnosis, each book shown with its cover will be available on Amazon. Most books are priced under $20.00, although some cost more.


6. If I was able to find a Support Group for your diagnosis or at least general support it is listed. Not many diagnoses have enough patients locally to have a “face-to-face” support group. However, your town or city may have a “chapter” of “NAMI,” (the “National Alliance on Mental Illness”), which will be very helpful for you. You may be able to find an online support group at a time convenient for you. Some charge for their services. Or you may contact the national organization for your diagnoses, because some of those has listings and will refer you to the support group you need.
Some of the diagnoses are recorded in separate lists, because they are not relevant to each diagnosis:


7. There is an overview of 9 points of information listing how many patients have this diagnosis in the United States and in the world, the average age of onset, the sex-ratio between men and women or boys and girls, how the illness begins, how it progresses, therapies likely offered and prescriptions often used.


8. Your student may have a diagnosis qualifying her or him for Special Education in school. If you student is substantially limited because of the diagnosis, your school should offer them more-individualized learning. 


9. If you can no longer work in your current occupation because of your diagnosis, you should apply for a Social Security Disability Income benefit. To qualify your medical provider must expect that you will be disabled for more than a year or die because of your diagnosis. Contact your local Social Security office as quickly as you can, because the evaluation for the benefit currently takes at least six months, and may be longer.