Links

Connect: The communication disability network
www.ukconnect.org

The stroke association
www.stroke.org.uk 

The Alzheimer's Society
alzheimer's.org.uk

The Parkinson's Disease Society
www.parkinsons.org.uk

An excellent site that presents the scientific evidence behind hypnosis
www.hypnosisandsuggestion.org

www.xkcd.com

Some recommendations...

BBC Radio 4.

Novels & Novelists
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand (I like the book, but not her politics)

Simone de Beauvoir
William Golding
Vladimir Nabokov
Iain M Banks

Comedians & Writers
Chris Morris, satirist and probably a genius
Stewart Lee, the 41st best stand-up ever
Julia Davis, hand-bitingly good actress and writer                                                               Daniel Kitson, wordy, thoughtful, lovely, and sharp.

TV
Generation Kill (2008)
The Wire (2002-2008)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan, 1980)
Jeeves & Wooster (1990-1993)

Film & Film-makers
Network (1976)
Delicatessen (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)                                                                                            The Return (2003) 
The Host (2005)
and all monster films, and those of Jean-Claude van Damme

Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Pedro Almodovar
Chan-wook Park