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 18, 2013

Six Take-aways on Neuroplasticity and Cognitive training By: Dr. Son Preminger

From the BrainTech Israel 2013 Conference. Full stuff at the link.
http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2013/10/18/braintech-six-take-aways-on-neuroplasticity-and-cognitive-training/
Notice the word protocols in #2. What and where the hell are they? Send your doctor off immediately to find them.
Here are some of the main take-aways from the rich discussion:
  1. Moti­va­tion seems to be crit­i­cal in any form of neuroplasticity-based ther­apy. Moti­va­tion as a dri­ver of repeated and inten­sive prac­tice as well as moti­va­tion and reward as enhancers and mod­u­la­tors of neu­ro­plas­tic­ity processes. The engag­ing and even addic­tive power of computer/video games was men­tioned as poten­tially ben­e­fi­cial dri­ver of moti­va­tion for cog­ni­tive train­ing. For exam­ple, in reha­bil­i­ta­tion cases where moti­va­tional processes are often impaired, treat­ing and train­ing moti­va­tional cir­cuits may be the first pri­or­ity as a gate­way to train­ing of other functions.
  2. Brain plas­tic­ity may go both ways, thus cog­ni­tive train­ing can even be detri­men­tal if it is not designed and per­formed cor­rectly. There­fore peo­ple devel­op­ing and using cog­ni­tive meth­ods should be cau­tious and keep assess­ing the effect of their pro­to­cols on a reg­u­lar basis, and make sure that cog­ni­tive train­ing is per­son­ally adapted on a dynam­ics level.
  3. There are sig­nif­i­cant gaps in the “sup­ply chain” process of trans­lat­ing sci­en­tific find­ings into valu­able solu­tions, espe­cially regard­ing clin­i­cally val­i­dated cog­ni­tive train­ing. We still see many chal­lenges in trans­form­ing research into clin­i­cal meth­ods, and in mak­ing sure clin­i­cal ther­a­pies trans­late into real-life improve­ments. The exam­ple of schiz­o­phre­nia was dis­cussed in depth, high­light­ing the dif­fi­culty to trans­fer psy­chother­apy, occu­pa­tional ther­apy and cog­ni­tive train­ing ben­e­fits into improve­ment in daily life.
  4. We see poten­tial value in new tech­nolo­gies such as 3D motion sen­sors that enable nat­ural inter­ac­tion (Primesense/Kincet), afford­able VR solu­tions, and aug­mented real­ity solu­tions (Google Glass). They can help upgrade cog­ni­tive train­ing by mak­ing it more sim­i­lar to real-life form of inter­ac­tion and envi­ron­men­tal context.
  5. Reha­bil­i­ta­tion processes that involve recruit­ment of new brain areas may ben­e­fit in the future from the pos­si­bil­ity of implant­ing cor­tex tis­sue and rewiring it by train­ing it to imple­ment impaired/new cog­ni­tive functions.
  6. Finally, it is impor­tant to start defin­ing guide­lines for eth­i­cal issues, such as afford­abil­ity and access to cog­ni­tive train­ing by some pop­u­la­tions and not others.

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