Deans' stroke musings: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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, February 13, 2013

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - neurons

This is about neuroplasticity, We know it works and can use it to help us recover. These 4 books tell us all about it. But none of them has any scientific basis as to how it works. You as a survivor need to completely understand this because it is your only chance at recovery.

1. The mind and the Brain : neuroplasticity and the power of mental
force / Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley.

2. Train Your Mind, Change
Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to
Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley

3. The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science / Norman Doidge.
4. Stronger After Stroke by Peter Levine

I used this to explain because I love Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060196/
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Here is my theory;
1. Good neurons - Neurons signal to neighboring neurons that they need help with controlling this task. Good neurons respond by accepting that request and dropping their current workload. Executive neurons are smart enough to disregard such help requests because they know that they are needed for cognitive purposes and that is more important that motor, sensation or memory control.
2. Bad neurons -These are bullies that force their neighbors to give up their lunch money and carry the bullies books.
3. Ugly neurons - These neurons intercept the signals going to and from their neighbors and substitute their own signals.
4. Evil neurons - Executive neurons have realized that some functions are not working. They send out hit squads of neurons with instructions to select groupings of 500 neurons and create amnesia and hypnotize them to accept the next instructions only from Big N.
Of course after you figure out which method is used you have to come up with a protocol that can consistently repeat the process.
I didn't use the next title because the movie is so obscure.
A different version is