Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Shireen Jeejeebhoy, from Toronto, received a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Toronto. Her first book, "Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story," won the 2008 Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award for best biography. Her first novel "She" was a finalist for the 2012 The Word Guild Awards, Novel - Futuristic Category. "Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me" was a finalist for the 2018 The Word Guild Awards, Memoir. She expanded on this book during the COVID-19 pandemic into a full-fledged website on brain injury -- what it actually is, how to diagnose it properly, and how to treat it using latest neuroscience. Please visit to see its soft launch: https://concussionisbraininjury.com Her memoir "Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me" came out in 2017. Her main credential to write this book is as a person with a brain injury. But she also drew on her education and experience. She was trained in the scientific method and, from her experience in research labs and research jobs, is schooled in designing, conducting, analyzing, and writing up research papers. As part of her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto, she studied physiology and neurophysiology, did an original-research thesis on reducing inattention in a child with attention deficit disorder, and conducted a year-long study on food perception in various eating populations and wrote the Abstract. For "Lifeliner," she conducted over sixty interviews, read the literature, and waded through a massive amount of medical data in order to translate into English so that the lay reader can understand.