Concussion Is Brain Injury

Gratitude

Moments of Joy and Hope Fuel Perseverance

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on April 23, 2024

Personal Perspective: Brain injury turning life into a daily endurance marathon can wear us out. One way to persevere is to notice moments of joy.

Personal Perspective: Brain injury turning life into a daily endurance marathon can wear us out. One way to persevere is to notice moments of joy.

Traumatic Brain Injury

How Does Brain Injury Damage Self-Love?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on March 18, 2024

Personal Perspective: We’re born knowing we exist and deserve to. And while experiences can damage self-love, nothing takes away the relationship with ourself like brain injury.

Personal Perspective: We’re born knowing we exist and deserve to. And while experiences can damage self-love, nothing takes away the relationship with ourself like brain injury.

Cognition

Reading Behavior After Brain Injury

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on February 21, 2024

As reading cognition returns, switching the focus of treatment from daily practice to reading wider and more complex materials becomes critical.

As reading cognition returns, switching the focus of treatment from daily practice to reading wider and more complex materials becomes critical.

Traumatic Brain Injury

An Anniversary View of Fictional Brain Injury

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on January 19, 2024

Personal Perspective: Recovery is more than restoring neurons. Pre-existing insults to the brain and social support matter too.

Personal Perspective: Recovery is more than restoring neurons. Pre-existing insults to the brain and social support matter too.

Relationships

What Are Holidays Like as a Brain Injury Survivor?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on December 20, 2023

Personal Perspective: Holidays for brain injury survivors are days of isolation and grief, left behind by loved ones, and cared for by those paid to do so.

Personal Perspective: Holidays for brain injury survivors are days of isolation and grief, left behind by loved ones, and cared for by those paid to do so.

Traumatic Brain Injury

Brain Injury Is a Mystery Crying to Be Solved

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on November 30, 2023

Personal Perspective: Brain injury is like a mystery. A grey and white thing hidden inside a bony thing, the brain runs us and none can see the damage when it's injured.

Personal Perspective: Brain injury is like a mystery. A grey and white thing hidden inside a bony thing, the brain runs us and none can see the damage when it's injured.

Traumatic Brain Injury

New Research Shows Reduced Serotonin in Long COVID

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on October 30, 2023

Serotonin reduction may be behind Long COVID's neurocognitive symptoms.

Serotonin reduction may be behind Long COVID's neurocognitive symptoms.

Traumatic Brain Injury

Closeness Is a Dimension

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on September 22, 2023

Like time and space are dimensions, so is closeness to others. Does brain injury damage that dimension and negatively affect our relationships?

Like time and space are dimensions, so is closeness to others. Does brain injury damage that dimension and negatively affect our relationships?

Traumatic Brain Injury

Dental Health After Brain Injury

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on August 25, 2023

Traumatic brain injury can impair both saliva composition and production, leading to tooth decay. Better cooperation between medicine and dentistry could prevent increased damage.

Traumatic brain injury can impair both saliva composition and production, leading to tooth decay. Better cooperation between medicine and dentistry could prevent increased damage.

Authenticity

What Gives You Meaning After Brain Injury?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on July 17, 2023

Personal Perspective: Brain injury concentrates your mind on the essential question: “What will give me meaning in my life?”

Personal Perspective: Brain injury concentrates your mind on the essential question: “What will give me meaning in my life?”

Grief

What Is Brain Injury Grief?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on June 23, 2023

Understanding your brain injury grief starts with two types of grief states. Neuroscience has begun to teach us how the brain feels grief, but not how damage affects it.

Understanding your brain injury grief starts with two types of grief states. Neuroscience has begun to teach us how the brain feels grief, but not how damage affects it.

Traumatic Brain Injury

How Inclusive of Brain Injury Is Climate Action?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on May 30, 2023

Personal Perspective: Knowledge and experience pre-brain injury does not equate to can-do afterward. Inclusivity means creating systems that don't disrupt our functionality.

Personal Perspective: Knowledge and experience pre-brain injury does not equate to can-do afterward. Inclusivity means creating systems that don't disrupt our functionality.

Neuroscience

Bitterness: What Is Its Function?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on May 1, 2023

Is feeling bitter after brain injury an attitude that needs psychotherapy or is it serving a function whose cause you need to understand so as to heal it?

Is feeling bitter after brain injury an attitude that needs psychotherapy or is it serving a function whose cause you need to understand so as to heal it?

Regression

How Often Can One Relearn How to Walk?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on March 23, 2023

Personal Perspective: Brain injury requires relearning basic skills like walking. But how can you start over again when subsequent events regress a relearnt skill over and over?

Personal Perspective: Brain injury requires relearning basic skills like walking. But how can you start over again when subsequent events regress a relearnt skill over and over?

Therapy

Home Devices Can Revolutionize Health Care

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on February 27, 2023

Personal Perspective: We are witnessing a revolution in healing, powered by home neurostimulation and neuromodulation devices.

Personal Perspective: We are witnessing a revolution in healing, powered by home neurostimulation and neuromodulation devices.

Resilience

Monitoring and Training Heart Rate Variability After Brain Injury

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on January 24, 2023

As clinicians come to understand how brain injury impairs heart rate variability, should clients monitor their HRV at home, and can current methods help restore it?

As clinicians come to understand how brain injury impairs heart rate variability, should clients monitor their HRV at home, and can current methods help restore it?

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence Can Cause Brain Injury

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on January 2, 2023

Concussion remains downplayed as a life-altering brain injury, and domestic violence even moreso. The injured deserve to be diagnosed with objective tests.

Concussion remains downplayed as a life-altering brain injury, and domestic violence even moreso. The injured deserve to be diagnosed with objective tests.

Identity

Stretching Your Boundaries After Brain Injury

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on January 1, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Has your brain injury stolen your identity? Has rehab put you into a routine of medical appointments? It's okay to find fun again.

A Personal Perspective: Has your brain injury stolen your identity? Has rehab put you into a routine of medical appointments? It's okay to find fun again.

Binaural Beats

What Effect Does Gamma Brainwave Enhancement Have?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on November 28, 2022

Gamma brainwave enhancement shows promise in treating Alzheimer's and resetting microglia in brain injury. This neurostimulation therapy needs more human study.

Gamma brainwave enhancement shows promise in treating Alzheimer's and resetting microglia in brain injury. This neurostimulation therapy needs more human study.

Coronavirus Disease 2019

Can We Use qEEG and Neurostimulation for COVID-19?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy on October 31, 2022

qEEG and neurostimulation have improved the lives of people with brain injury. It's time to study it for the treatment of people living with long COVID.

qEEG and neurostimulation have improved the lives of people with brain injury. It's time to study it for the treatment of people living with long COVID.