Selected educational videos
Short talks and explainers that make brain injury easier to understand for staff, families, and people with lived experience.
Field Notes
From the Field
Practical writing, observations, and resources about what brain injury looks like in real life — and what can change when we recognize it.
Field Notes draws from Marc’s professional work as a Brain Injury Specialist, his own lived experience, and the screening and education work he does every day — along with the conversations that come out of treatment, recovery, justice, reentry, family, and community settings.
Featured Field Notes
Featured Writing
Topic areas Marc writes about most often. Full articles and expanded versions of selected professional writing will appear here as they are published.
Neurofatigue & Cognitive Overload
The Pain of Being Consistently Inconsistent
Life After Brain Injury Is Not What It Looks Like
An exploration of the invisible cognitive load behind changing plans, unanswered calls, withdrawal, relationship strain, and the “consistent inconsistency” that can occur after brain injury.
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Hidden Brain Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury & The Hidden Cost of Isolation
How neurofatigue, sensory overload, chronic stress load, and the need to protect an overwhelmed nervous system can gradually lead brain injury survivors toward isolation.
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Systems Change
A Referral Is Not Meaningful Access
Why identifying brain injury or making a referral is only the beginning — and why meaningful access requires accommodations, preparation, navigation, follow-through, and systems designed around cognitive barriers.
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Brain Injury & Substance Use
Brain Injury, Self-Medication, and Addiction — Something We Rarely Talk About
Exploring the relationship between traumatic brain injury, dysregulation, self-medication, substance use, and why understanding what happened to the brain can change the recovery conversation.
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Explore Field Notes
Field Notes are organized around the areas where brain injury is most often missed. New topics are added as the work continues.
- Brain Injury & Substance Use
- Neurofatigue & Cognitive Overload
- Hidden Brain Injury
- Screening & Recognition
- Neurologically Informed Care
- Justice, Corrections & Reentry
- Families & Support Systems
- Treatment & Recovery
- Practical Strategies & Accommodations
- Lived Experience
- Systems Change
- Professional Education
Practical Resources
Resources You Can Use
Education becomes more useful when people have something practical to take with them.
Resources will be added here as they are prepared for public use. Anything posted will be material Marc has developed or selected for real-world use — not filler.
Planned resource library
- Educational one-pagers
- Brain injury tip sheets
- Practical strategy guides
- Family and support-person resources
- Provider and care-team resources
- Screening follow-up materials
- Resource and referral information
- Suggested reading
- Selected educational videos
Recommended
Watch, Listen & Learn
A curated space for educational videos, talks, and explainers from other professionals and organizations that Marc finds genuinely useful.
Talks & professional sessions
Recorded presentations and panels covering screening, recognition, and neurologically informed practice across systems.
Research explainers & reading
Plain-language summaries and reading that help translate brain injury research into everyday practice.
Any third-party material featured here will be credited to its original author or organization and linked to its original source. Selections are added only after review.
From LinkedIn to Field Notes
A Conversation Can Become a Resource
Some Field Notes start as shorter professional observations or discussions on LinkedIn — a question from a provider, a pattern showing up in screening work, a reaction to how brain injury gets described. When a conversation proves useful, it gets expanded here into longer-form writing, practical education, or a resource people can actually work from.
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Important context
Field Notes provides education and practical information about brain injury and related systems issues. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or a substitute for individualized medical or mental health care.
Keep the Conversation Going
Brain injury recognition improves when information moves beyond conferences, clinics, and professional conversations and becomes useful in everyday settings.