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Shireen Jeejeebhoy is an artist, author, and blogger. She obtained a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Toronto, launched into writing and coding, and slammed and somersaulted into the unknown life of brain injury.

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Concussion Is Brain Injury:
Treating the Neurons and Me

Beautifully written first person account of life after a brain injury. . . . This is a must read for anyone with a brain injury and anyone who is close to someone with a brain injury.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Lifeliner:
The Judy Taylor Story

A compelling story. . . . Reading it will make you laugh, smile, cringe, cry and most importantly, think. If you want inspiration, Lifeliner has no shortage packed into its pages.

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Time and Space

What an amazing journey into the future! . . . There are some interesting future technologies: I loved that scene with the elimination vessel, and I wouldn’t mind trying those shoes! . . . I couldn’t stop reading until the end.

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aban’s Accension

To the author’s credit, avoids religiosity and preachiness . . . With this approach, Jeejeebhoy lets Aban’s Accension remain a gentle allegory, which may play in the reader’s consciousness (as it has mine) for weeks or months.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Concussion Is Brain Injury

Restoring your life after brain injury

  • Trans Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Brain Disorders
    on February 26, 2025

    Similar to cranioelectrical stimulation, trans auricular vagus nerve stimulation shows dramatic potential to treat many brain disorders, most excitingly disorders of consciousness.

  • Treating the Neurons and Mental States
    on January 23, 2025

    Personal Perspective: The heart of treating brain injury may be treating the injured neurons and the resultant mental states, both.

  • Decision-Making After Brain Injury
    on December 23, 2024

    Personal Perspective: Damaged neurons and neural networks—not inherent indecisiveness or codependence or personality flaw—impede decision-making after brain injury.

  • Rhythms Reflect Health
    on December 3, 2024

    Personal Perspective: One must face the full extent of brain injury and recovery. Only then can one know how out of rhythm one is and set a new goal.

  • Terminal Lucidity, Brain Injury, and the Self
    on October 24, 2024

    Personal Perspective: Terminal lucidity challenges orthodoxy by asking how a person with severe or prolonged brain damage can suddenly be their pre-morbid self.

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Brain Injury Grief is Extraordinary Grief

We are beginning to understand the nature of grief from brain injury.
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Marriage Breakdown After Brain Injury

What do therapists need to know to help ailing marriages after brain injury?
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The How of Loving Detachment

After brain injury, how do you disengage from people who make you feel worse?
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COVID-19 Welcomes the World to Brain Injury-Type Isolation

A virus shows the world what life is like for their injured friends and family.
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Telogen Effluvium, aka Stress-Induced Hair Loss

Did you know a concussion affects hair? Hair loss is real!
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Mind Explorer
  • God, Angels, Demons, Divine Beings, Free Will
    on March 15, 2025

    What does it mean that Deuteronomy chapter 32, verses 8 to 9, says God portioned 70 nations to 70 divine beings and kept Israel for themself to rule over? What kind of beings invisible to us exist?

  • Storytelling Inspiration
    on March 8, 2025

    The adage to writers is to read what you want to write. But watching K-Dramas is an exercise in learning good storytelling technique.

  • Staring at Mind
    on March 1, 2025

    What is the mind? Let’s start with examining its attributes! Then we can consider its substance.

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Brain Injury Website Soft Launch!

Good news! My brain injury website soft launch is here!! My pandemic project, an idea brewing in my …

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Gamma 38 to 42Hz Audiovisual Entrainment for Brain Injury, Single Subject Study

Introduction In 2012, following my inclusion in and subsequent exit from a drug trial that increases…

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First Review of The Soul’s Awakening for Readers’ Favorite

"The Soul’s Awakening offers a compelling exploration of life's most profound questions, encouraging…

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Midwest Book Review in for The Soul’s Awakening

"…especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and college/university library …

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Shake-It-Up Saturday

Shake-it-up Saturday is the sixth day of the Written Academy's 7-Day Writing Sprint. You're supposed…

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Changing CES to taVNS

I wrote on Psychology Today about taVNS and its dramatic potential to heal brain injury. Then I deci…

Concussion Is Brain Injury:
Treating the Neurons and Me

The book is divided into chapters where some are like a novel because she is telling us her thoughts through this nightmare and then [other chapters are] more like science information . . . to give encouragement and advice. A very brave woman.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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She:
An Urban Fantasy

Put simply this is the best urban fantasy story that I have ever read period. From word one I was hooked into this tale, possessed by it if you will.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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