Deans' stroke musings: Sensory Stimulation Protects from Stroke Damage in Awake Animals

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.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Sensory Stimulation Protects from Stroke Damage in Awake Animals

From the Society for Neuroscience 2011 press release.
Fascinating idea.
http://www.sfn.org/siteobjects/published/0000BDF20016F63800FD712C30FA42DD/7EEDCCFAE51E16A50C47ADCDB808E614/file/Brain%20Repair%20Release%20Final%20Draft.pdf
Exploring an engaging, novel environment soon after a stroke protects rats from brain damage, according to new research presented at Neuroscience 2011, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world‟s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health. The findings suggest that sensory stimulation benefits stroke recovery whether the victim is anesthetized or awake.
Previous studies, led by Ron Frostig, PhD, of the University of California, Irvine, found that anesthetized rats undergoing an ischemic stroke could be protected from brain damage if they received sensory stimulation within two hours of stroke onset. The current study found rats were also fully protected if immediately awakened from anesthesia after ischemic stroke and placed in an “enriched environment” replete with buried treats, tunnels, and toys. Conversely, rats revived from anesthesia three hours following the stroke and placed in the same environment suffered damage.
“A phrase commonly heard in stroke treatment is „time is brain,‟” said Frostig. “It may be possible to develop a stroke treatment strategy that could be initiated by a friend, loved one, or first responder prior to arrival at a treatment facility,” he said.
Research was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Scientific Presentation: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 10–11 a.m., Halls A–C