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, June 25, 2012

Exercise and the Brain: Neurogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, Spine Density, and Angiogenesis

Get your doctor to spend $24.95 for this chapter. They should have it before you ask about it anyway.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n459u3844514n7k1/

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the mechanisms underlying the effects of ­exercise on brain structural and synaptic plasticity as well as cognitive function in rodents. In normal young and aged mice wheel running increases neurotrophin, neurotransmitter, and angiogenesis levels, and enhances fine neuronal morphology such as dendritic branching and spine density. Specific to the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is the increase in the production of new neurons with running, which may mediate at least in part the observed improvements in learning and memory. The role of exercise in mouse models of neurodegeneration such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease is also evaluated and found to be generally beneficial with the potential exception of Huntington’s disease. Furthermore, possible peripheral triggers elicited with exercise, such as muscle activation, that lead to improvements in brain structure and function are discussed.

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