It’s been a bit of a tough week. I returned to my medical routine, and my brain biofeedback was changed up. As I wrote earlier, we’d added transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the mix. Well. Even though I felt nothing at the time, except tingling on my scalp, the morning after the two sessions,…
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Gamma Brainwave Biofeedback: Changing Brain Location
Back to the brain-injury-recovery routine, except it's not routine. Oh sure, it's the same-old TTC to clinic, get wired up, play games on the computer with my brain (no hands, Ma!) routine, but now there’s a twist and a change. After my 19-point EEG, evoke potentials study, and earlier computer assessments last month, we’re now…
Review: Nothing but trouble
Nothing but trouble by Roberta Kray My rating: 4 of 5 stars I won this book in a Twitter contest held by the UK’s The Crime Vault for for “What would you name your series character?” I came up with Inspector Everlast Forlorn. And I won ten books! I read the descriptions of all the…
Home Stretch Stops on Orangeberry Book Tours
We’re entering the home stretch of the the Orangeberry Book Tour for She and going from daily to weekly stops for Concussion Is Brain Injury. Since my last post, the She book tour has stopped at The Reading Cat — Review (tiny spoiler) Book Lover’s Dream — Interview and Book Feature Need to Stop Reading…
#TwitterView with @ShireenJ on Concussion Is Brain Injury
At the end of my first week of my Orangeberry Book Tour for Concussion Is Brain Injury comes a #TwitterView, short for a Twitter interview. This is my third one, and I’m getting to be an old hand at this — or so I think until I see the first question. Oy! What makes your…
Concussion Connection to Heart Seen in Research Testing
Twitter is great. It feeds me all sorts of new, sometimes even relevant scientific or medical news. Concussion Testing Method Diagnoses Traumatic Brain Injury with Heart Rate …: A new concussion testing … bit.ly/ZuXUr1 #tbi — Mark Palmer (@Realistichope) March 20, 2013 Concussion Testing Method Diagnoses Traumatic Brain Injury with Heart Rate, Blood Pressure bit.ly/YUNO2D…
Orangeberry Book Tours for She and Concussion Is Brain Injury
As of Monday, I have two book tours running. Ack! One for my first novel She, and one for my latest book Concussion Is Brain Injury. “Loved the forest scene. Was dark and eerie. Felt like you were right there in the car with them.” (Melody Armstrong on Goodreads) The one for She has been…
Progress Report Time for Gamma Brainwave Biofeedback
I’ve had a few reassessments. First, you do the IVA test, then after a rest, the TOVA test, then after another rest, the three-minute EEG assessment with the electrode in the CZ position (on the top of your head between the ears). But I’ve never done them like this before, with my brain deciding to…
SARS Anniversary: Heart and Heat
I heard on The Current on CBC Radio 1 today that it’s the ten-year anniversary of the SARS epidemic that hit Toronto in 2003. I remember it well, not because I was hit with SARS, but because like many who were sick and injured at the time, using the health care system became difficult. For…