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.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Scientists developing device to 'hack' into brain of Stephen Hawking

We really need our doctors and researchers to use this device as we go thru therapy to prove what works and doesn't work. Today we have no proof at all that some therapy really did something.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/stephen-hawking/9352358/Scientists-developing-device-to-hack-into-brain-of-Stephen-Hawking.html
Hawking, 70, has been working with scientists at Stanford University who are developing a the iBrain - a tool which picks up brain waves and communicates them via a computer.
The scientist, who has motor neurone disease and lost the power of speech nearly 30 years ago, currently uses a computer to communicate but is losing the ability as the condition worsens.
But he has been working with Philip Low, the inventor of the iBrain, a brain scanner that measures electrical activity.
"We'd like to find a way to bypass his body, pretty much hack his brain," said Prof Low.
Researchers will unveil their latest results at a conference in Cambridge next month, and may demonstrate the technology on Hawking.
In a release for the conference, Hawking and Low described how the physicist had learnt to create patterns of impulses by imagining moving his hands and limbs.
It is hoped that as the technology becomes more advanced it could recognise more sophisticated brain activity and turn it into words.
Scientists hope that it may soon be able to "read a person's mind," playing a major role in a medical breakthrough.
"This is very exciting for us because it allows us to have a window into the brain. We're building technology that will allow humanity to have access to the human brain for the first time," said Prof Low.
"The emergence of such biomarkers opens the possibility to link intended movements to a library of words and convert them into speech, thus providing motor neurone sufferers with communication tools more dependent on the brain than on the body."
Last summer, Low traveled to Cambridge where he met with Hawking, who was asked to think "very hard" about completing various tasks while wearing the device.
Beyond mind reading, the device has potential medical applications, such as enlisting the iBrain to help doctors prescribe the correct levels of medication based on a person's brainwave responses.
In addition, Low says the iBrain could be used to help treat sleep disorders, depression and even autism.
This is the first step to personalized medicine," Low said.

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