Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy

Broschiertes Buch

Concussion Is Brain Injury

Treating the Neurons and Me

Beschreibung

Shireen is an artist, author, and blogger. She earned a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Toronto, launched into writing and computer programming, and slammed and somersaulted into the unknown life of brain injury in the year 2000. She emerged from the car crash still walking and talking, but the person she had been was forever gone. Although no one knew it at the time, she had sustained a concussion. The repercussions of that injury have shaped her life ever since. Many believe a concussion is a mild injury, when in truth it is a traumatic brain injury in which the brain bangs about inside the skull. If not identified or treated within the first 48 hours, the injury can lead to secondary symptoms (euphemistically named post-concussive syndrome) that require years of rehabilitation. Traditional rehabilitation, involving cognitive therapy and rest, were ineffective. In addition to lost neurons, Jeejeebhoy was quickly losing her social connections and relationships. The concussion was threatening to cut her off from the world. She wanted this hidden injury healed; she wanted the plethora of problems from it, especially the cognitive ones, treated. She wanted to return to society. And so began her long quest to find effective treatment. She found it and improved dramatically. In Concussion Is Brain Injury, Revised Edition, Jeejeebhoy shares this journey, her discoveries, and the latest research to give hope to those who have suffered from concussions and the people who care for them.

Autor

Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy is an award-winning author. Shireen writes novels and non-fiction, blogs about Toronto and brain injury, and creates visual art under both Shireen Jeejeebhoy and Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy. Shireen's first book, Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story (2007), was an award-winning biography about a patient and her pioneering doctor whose ground-breaking work made it possible to live without eating. A Canadian innovation, this artificial life support saves tens of thousands of lives every year around the globe. She, Shireen's first novel, was a finalist for the 2012 The Word Guild Awards, Novel - Futuristic Category. Shireen's memoir Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me (2017) was short-listed for the 2018 Word Awards and garnered seven five-star reviews and an invitation to blog on Psychology Today. Using this memoir as a launch pad, Shireen created a website on brain injury, how to diagnose it, and effective treatments for it at https://concussionisbraininjury.com. Shireen advocates for replacing standard medical care with effective neurostimulation and neuromodulation therapies to restore people's health and return them to their full potential. This advocacy lead her to become the brain injury consultant and dramaturge on Brain Storm (play, 2020). Brain Storm ran at Dancemakers Studio in Toronto's historic Distillery District just before COVID-19 shut down Toronto. Then motivated by the popularity of her Psychology Today post on brain injury grief, she wrote Brain Injury, Trauma, and Grief: How to Heal When You Are Alone, a self-help book to help people learn about and recover from this devastating grief. Shireen has written several novels that feature Toronto as a character and star women finding their way without romance giving them the answers. Women talk to each other about something other than a man, and, drawing on her tri-continent background, diversity emerges naturally in her stories. Dogs and cats cavort in supporting roles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SA Jeejeebhoy
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780991969869
• ISBN-10: 0991969863
• Artikelnr.: 49394262