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.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

How pregnancy might stimulate memory

This was fascinating for the part about dendritic spines. From an email from Lumosity.  Original article below. I can see this as extremely important to us because we would need these dendritic spines to go around dead/damaged areas.
Prior research has found that certain female hormones such as oestradial and progesterone significantly increase the number of dendritic spines in the brain. Dendrites are what neurons use to reach out and connect with each other—so the more dendrites, the higher possibility of neural connections. Because these dendrite-enriching female hormones surge and stay high during pregnancy, researchers from the University of Richmond hoped to find significant differences in the brains of maternal rats.
In this 1999 study from the journal Nature, maternal rats were almost three times as fast at navigating to the food reward when put through a maze test. Maternal rats took only 43.2 seconds, compared to 128 seconds among non-maternal females. Researchers postulate that maternal rats had brains better adapted to the task of navigation because of its import role in supporting young—in this case, locating and securing food resources.
Here is the actual article

Motherhood improves learning and memory

 

Neural activity in rats is enhanced by pregnancy and the demands of rearing offspring.
When a female mammal makes the transition from virginity to motherhood, she is forced to refocus her activities dramatically. She must adapt to a multitude of new demands by her offspring or risk losing a significant metabolic and genetic investment.

1 comment:

  1. This one made me chuckle a little. Maybe the maternal rat found the food faster because she was hungry and pg. Just my thought. Anyway, this article is good news for me, hoping for another baby someday, maybe I'll get brain recovery too!

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