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, March 29, 2012

Cognitive impairment in Khat users

Our brains are impaired enough already so make sure you lay off the khat.
http://tlneuro.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/cognitive-impairment-in-khat-users/
A recently published study examines the cognitive effects of khat (Catha edulis) chewing. Colzato and colleagues (2011) recruited 20 khat users with 10.5 (6.5 SD) years of use, averaging 3.1 (1.8 SD) times per week. The average time spent chewing khat in each session was 5.8 hrs (1.7 SD) and all khat users met at least four criteria which define addiction under DSM-IV or ICD-10 criteria. Marijuana consumption in these individuals and the khat-free controls was about 2 joints per week, they consumed 6-8 drinks per week and had zero lifetime exposure to cocaine, amphetamines or ketamine. Subjects were also matched on IQ (using the Ravens Standard Matrices), age (~31 years), ethnicity/origin (all African) and sex (2 female in each group), although two male subjects from the khat-user group had to be excluded for excessive error rates in the switching task
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