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, September 19, 2012

Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis: Changing Moment-by-Moment

Make sure your doctor gets this so she/he can tell you what chapter 13 can do for your rehab. If you get this send me details. I want to know whether 'good or bad' neurons are involved.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p481n2tv623763g3/

Abstract

Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain and nervous system to reorganize its neural pathways, connections, and functions. It occurs rapidly during brain development, from conception through the first few years of life. But neuroplasticity manifests in another way that is important for psychotherapy, when it occurs in response to experience. Experience-based neuroplasticity can happen all through life and in varied circumstances. It can be positive and expanding or negative and constricting. Negative neuroplasticity is associated with stress found in many psychological disorders including PTSD, major depression, and borderline personality disorder. Positive neuroplasticity can be stimulated by certain kinds of experiences. Growth is often correlated with improved functioning, just as shrinking is associated with declines, and so whenever therapists can stimulate new growth, they are more likely to help clients improve their functioning. The discovery that the brain has this ability to change from experience presents a great hope for the therapist’s ability to stimulate change, not just in thoughts and feelings, but also in the very structure and function of the brain. People can make their lives, and their brains better by what they do, and they can do so at any age. Chapter 13 gives the details of how neuroplasticity has been studied at the microscopic level, how the discoveries of plasticity developed over the centuries, and the ways that experience tends to bring neuroplasticity about through enrichment, remapping, and novelty. Therapeutic methods can facilitate these processes. This chapter shows how therapists can expand expectations to include novel methods to foster helpful brain changes in clients.

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