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.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

People with higher IQ have the ability to get rid of distractions

So these people should be able to recover from stroke better because they should be able to stop the synergy of all your muscles moving. Well I consider myself in that category and it hasn't helped my recovery one bit.
The analysis article here:
http://saypeople.com/2013/05/24/people-with-higher-iq-have-the-ability-to-get-rid-of-distractions/#axzz2USgJvFRo
The abstract here:
A Strong Interactive Link between Sensory Discriminations and Intelligence
  • Highlights
  • IQ scores are predicted by individual differences in sensory discriminations
  • High IQ is associated with motion perception impairments as stimulus size increases
  • The results link intelligence and low-level suppression of sensory information
  • Suppressive processes are a key constraint of both intelligence and perception

Summary

Early psychologists, including Galton, Cattell, and Spearman, proposed that intelligence and simple sensory discriminations are constrained by common neural processes, predicting a close link between them [1,2]. However, strong supporting evidence for this hypothesis remains elusive. Although people with higher intelligence quotients (IQs) are quicker at processing sensory stimuli [1,2,3,4,5], these broadly replicated findings explain a relatively modest proportion of variance in IQ. Processing speed alone is, arguably, a poor match for the information processing demands on the neural system. Our brains operate on overwhelming amounts of information [6,7], and thus their efficiency is fundamentally constrained by an ability to suppress irrelevant information [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]. Here, we show that individual variability in a simple visual discrimination task that reflects both processing speed and perceptual suppression [22] strongly correlates with IQ. High-IQ individuals, although quick at perceiving small moving objects, exhibit disproportionately large impairments in perceiving motion as stimulus size increases. These findings link intelligence with low-level sensory suppression of large moving patterns—background-like stimuli that are ecologically less relevant [22,23,24,25]. We conjecture that the ability to suppress irrelevant and rapidly process relevant information fundamentally constrains both sensory discriminations and intelligence, providing an information-processing basis for the observed link.

2 comments:

  1. I consider myself in this category too and getting rid of distractions is one of my major problems. I get distracted and then obssess over everything.

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  2. I can't watch TV and read at the same time any more, could prestroke no more TV as backgroung must be off now for me to read.

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