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.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Researchers Use Peanut Butter to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

How fun smelling those peanut butter sandwiches, practice up on your deception skills to fool your kids.
Maybe not, see the bottom of the post.
http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-peanut-butter-diagnose-alzheimers-disease-171900738.html
Florida researchers have come up with a novel way to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease. They use peanut butter and a ruler.
These unusual tools provide a way for scientists to test subjects for smell sensitivity, according to ScienceDaily. In Alzheimer's patients, one of the first locations in the brain to experience degeneration is the front part of the temporal lobe, which evolved from the olfactory system. It's linked to the ability to create new memories.
University of Florida graduate student Jennifer Stamps noted that the staff did not evaluate the sense of smell of subjects tested at the university's McKnight Brain Institute Center. This sense derives from the first cranial nerve, often one of the first things disturbed during a cognitive decline.
Stamps created a simple peanut butter test used on 68 patients with cognitive impairment, plus 26 control subjects. Findings appeared in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences.

More at link.