Deans' stroke musings: Looking towards the future: Preventing Alzheimer's in the next decade

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, February 19, 2013

Looking towards the future: Preventing Alzheimer's in the next decade

If I got an email like this from a Great stroke association I would probably donate. As it is right now I will never donate to one that doesn't sponsor research. At least they(Alz) are looking to the future, our stroke associations are buried in the past.

Researcher looks toward methods of prevention

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"We don't need miracles. We need resources."

Dear dean,

"I believe the tools necessary to prevent Alzheimer's disease
are within reach."

That's a bold statement, but world–renowned researcher
David Morgan, Ph.D., has every confidence in his prediction.

Dr. Morgan's research interests are aging and brain function,
focusing on drugs to treat the form of dementia called Alzheimer's
disease. He is a recipient of multiple grants from the
Alzheimer's Association and other prestigious grantors
like the National Institutes of Health.

Although the pace of research is accelerating, much needs to
be done to address the severity of the Alzheimer's epidemic.

Ninety percent of what we know about Alzheimer's has been
discovered in the last 15 years. Some of the most remarkable
progress has shed light on how Alzheimer's affects the brain,
thanks to dedicated researchers like Dr. Morgan. His team is now
targeting the tangles of proteins called tau that build up inside
brain cells more rapidly in people with Alzheimer's than in the
general population.

Dr. Morgan is one example of how our International Grant
Research Program support some of the most important
research threads in Alzheimer's science. These threads move
the field forward by:

Contributing to knowledge about Alzheimer's
Refining research questions, and
Yielding clues to causes and treatments

Because new treatments take years to produce—and because
drugs that seem promising in early–stage studies may not work
as hoped in large-scale trials— it is critical that Alzheimer's
research continues to accelerate.

Dr. Morgan's commitment to the fight against Alzheimer's and
dementia gives us all reason to hope — for answers, for treatments
and ultimately, for a cure. Please take a moment to read Dr.
Morgan's message and help us move the fight forward.