El Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith) es un neuropatólogo forense que descubrió el síndrome postconmoción cerebral, que tanto daño causó a muchos jugadores de fútbol americano y que provocó el suicidio de muchas estrellas de la liga NFL afectadas por el síndrome, como Dave Duerson y Junior Seau.
Tras la muerte de su madre, Bobby, un joven discapacitado psíquico, queda a merced de su padrastro. Éste, que quiere apoderarse del negocio familiar, le aterroriza y le amenaza con recluirlo en un psiquiátrico. El joven decide huir a través de la campiña inglesa; en su viaje, en un accidente de carretera, conoce al señor Summers, quien muestra más interés por un conejo atropellado que por el estado de salud del conductor implicado en el suceso...
A man re-evaluates his life after being given a second chance. When seedy cop Liu Chen-hai is shot, he is forced to do some soul-searching about his old life.
Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.
At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the rest of the world. Everybody seems to defy the famous author to write another novel that recounts this adventure telling his "last story", the most conclusive of his career, the one of his accidental journey to the clear shadows territory.
Ben, un joven con daño cerebral que vive en México, despierta después de un violento accidente con un intelecto restaurado y habilidades sobrenaturales, que le permiten controlar los acontecimientos de su mundo.
A young woman returning from a renaissance fair survives a car accident, but much to her family's horror, the accident damages her brain and she develops blatantly promiscuous and childlike behavior.
Un vagabundo llamado Candelario solicita pasar la noche en la hacienda de don Lázaro. Una vez allí, recibe la oferta de quedarse a trabajar como peón con un sueldo fijo. Con el paso del tiempo, Candelario se va ganando la confianza de su patrón, hasta hacerse imprescindible. La situación cambiará radicalmente cuando don Lázaro descubre que el hombre de su confianza lleva tiempo manteniendo relaciones amorosas en secreto con su esposa.
Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment of the National Football League’s decades-long concealment of the link between football related head injuries and brain disorders.
In a gritty underworld, a young man with a broken brain is lured into an underground fight tournament, where he must win to save his brother.
Igor is a professional boxer whose world comes to a halt when he learns that his brain has been severely damaged from his many years of fighting. Refusing to undergo surgery, he knows that his days are numbered. Not having much left, his last desire is to leave a child behind as his legacy. A young Vietnamese immigrant, Yen Ha, agrees to have his baby in return for Polish citizenship. Despite the nature of their agreement, they slowly fall in love, but then Igor's health deteriorates...
Adam tells the story of a techno musician, who after years of hospitalizations for alcoholism makes her son swear that he will never let her spend the rest of her life in an institution. When her doctors diagnose her with permanent brain damage, 20-year-old Adam, who is deaf and completely on his own, must decide whether to break his promise to his mother or help her die...
Nearly a decade in the making, The House We Lived In is a strikingly candid portrait of a family transformed by a father’s brain injury. In 2011, 61-year-old Tod O’Donnell awoke from a coma with a case of total amnesia that doctors assured his wife and children was temporary. But when it proved permanent, and for no discernible reason, the O’Donnell’s were left to themselves to untangle the mystery — a struggle for answers that would only raise more questions as they came to realize, painfully, that the real mystery was Tod himself.
The PCP Story is a general overview of an emerging drug problem -the abuse of phencyclidine. The film is journalistic in approach as users and various authorities define the growth, effects, and dangers of the drug.
Renowned researchers, R. Stanley Burns, M. D. and Steven E. Lerner, M.S., collaborated closely in the production to assure the accuracy of the film's content.
Some of the characteristic signs of the low dose state of intoxication - the blank stare, ataxia, stuttering, incomplete verbal responses, and mystagmus upon testing - are graphically demonstrated by users.
A woman attempts to obtain the consent of the victim's family to release her husband from the death penalty, meanwhile, the husband is suffering from brain death.
Sculptor/painter Katie Dallam entered the boxing ring for her first professional fight and, 140 blows to the head later, suffered major brain damage. (Her life became the basis for the movie Million Dollar Baby). Irish musician Graham Sharpe’s career was on the rise when advancing tinnitus caused a ringing in his ears so bad that it put an end to his rock-and-roll dreams. Sculptor Alice Wingwall experienced complete loss of sight from a degenerative eye disease. Game over for these three, right? Not so fast. Each managed to struggle, innovate, and, ultimately, through their art, transform themselves into someone new.