Deans' stroke musings: BUDDHA VERSUS PAUL: NEUROPLASTICITY AND THE RENEWING OF THE MIND

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, November 28, 2011

BUDDHA VERSUS PAUL: NEUROPLASTICITY AND THE RENEWING OF THE MIND

I try to stay out of religion but this is relevant for some people. Interesting that this came from one of my Google Scholar alerts
http://www.nacsw.org/Publications/Proceedings2011/FlynnEBuddhaE.pdf
Mindful attention and neuroplasticity of the brain are the hottest discoveries in neuroscience; yet, many of the pioneering researchers of mindful attention and neuroplasticity are Buddhist followers. Nonetheless Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, penned the words of Romans 12:2 close to 2000 years ago, saying “be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (New American Standard Bible). This transformation of the mind comes not through the Buddhist religion, but through focused attention on taking “every thought captive,” and challenging lie-based beliefs until neural connections to the truth of God’s Word, the Gospel and the Lord Himself brings about true transformation of the mind. Sadly, Christians, like the rest of society, have reserved these sacred truths for Sunday mornings and seem to consider them irrelevant for daily living. Neuroscience, however, not only validates these biblical teachings but shows that these commands impact each person’s daily life.