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.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

How magnets rouse the brain

There were several of these reports last December.
http://sciencealert.com.au/news/20120502-23075.html
A pioneering therapy that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the brain to treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease, depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy and stroke is now better understood thanks to researchers from The University of Western Australia and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France.
Research Associate Professor Jennifer Rodger from UWA's School of Animal Biology said she and her team tested the therapy - known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) - on mice to find out how it can be applied to treating human neurological disease.
The research was published recently in the prestigious journal FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology).
Transcranial pulsed magnetic field stimulation facilitates reorganization of abnormal neural circuits and corrects behavioral deficits without disrupting normal connectivity
http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2012/01/04/fj.11-194878.abstract?sid=d74fb299-d866-4cce-bb6b-ab47278976db
"Our work demonstrated for the first time that pulsed magnetic fields promote changes in brain chemicals that correct abnormal brain connections, resulting in improved behaviour and brain function," joint lead author Dr Rodger said.
"rTMS is an exciting therapy that stimulates the brain. It has shown promising results in treating the damaged human brain. Our research helps to explain how this therapy works on the cells of the brain. Previously, evidence of its usefulness was mainly from anecdotal clinical evidence.
"Our results greatly increase our understanding of the specific cellular and molecular events that occur in the brain during rTMS therapy. We are the first to show that changes in brain circuits underpin these beneficial effects. Our results have implications for how rTMS is used in humans to treat disease and improve brain function."
Dr Rodger explained that the structural and functional changes caused by the therapy in malfunctioning circuits were not seen in the normal healthy brain, suggesting that the therapy could have minimal side effects in humans.
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