Dialogue
Global Neurorecovery Dialogue Series
Conversations with clinicians, researchers, survivors, caregivers, and advocates about the questions shaping recovery after brain injury.
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Recovery does not end when a patient leaves the hospital.
Synaptogenesis brings together survivors, families, clinicians, researchers, and community leaders to understand what happens next and improve recovery after brain injury.
Our mission
Every recovery should teach us how to improve the next one.
Much of recovery from brain injury happens after people leave the hospital and formal rehabilitation. Yet clinicians and researchers do not always see what happens months or years later.
We bring together people who experience, study, and care for brain injury to better understand recovery and improve what comes next.
Our work
Four ways we are working to improve neurorecovery.
Our programs connect conversation, research, education, and community life after brain injury.
Community
Empower Through Recovery
Programs that help brain injury survivors reconnect with education, work, peers, independence, and community life.
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Education
Our Teen Brains
Neuroscience education that helps young people, families, and schools understand the developing brain.
Visit Our Teen Brains →Recovery Insights Lab
Studying what recovery looks like after people go home.
We study what matters to brain injury survivors over time, which needs tend to occur together, where people struggle to find support, and where recovery systems can do better.
Research questions
01 · Survivor-Defined Recovery OutcomesWhat does meaningful recovery look like to survivors?
02 · Post-Discharge NeedsWhich cognitive, emotional, physical, and everyday needs tend to occur together?
03 · Recovery Information & NavigationWhere do survivors look for help, and where do they get lost?
04 · Community ReintegrationWhere are the gaps in support for returning to work, school, relationships, and community life?
A question from recovery
The Handouts and Nothing Else
Episode 7 · Latest conversation
Episode 7 · Survivor voice
Ryan Johnson
Brain Injury Survivor · California TBI Advisory Board
Ryan Johnson went home after a severe traumatic brain injury with handouts, but no referrals, follow-up appointments, or clear roadmap for recovery.
His experience raises a larger question: What happens when survivors are sent home without knowing where to turn next?