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World Service,16 Sep 2019,53 mins

How I fixed my own brain

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In 1995, Sarah Vallance was an incredibly bright PhD student in Sydney, Australia. After suffering a traumatic brain injury, she began to struggle with the simplest tasks - like shopping, counting money, even reading her own thesis. But she managed to put her life back together - with the help of her dogs. Mauritanian engineer Mohamedou Salahi was detained on suspicion of being an Islamist extremist . He was released without charge after 14 years with a new friend, guard Steve Wood. Picture: Sarah Vallance sitting in the grass with her two dogs Credit: Courtesy of Sarah Vallance

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