Deans' stroke musings: Cognition/Emotion Relationships and Neuroplasticity: Implications for Intervention in Psychopathology

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.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Cognition/Emotion Relationships and Neuroplasticity: Implications for Intervention in Psychopathology

Have your doctor figure out a stroke protocol for you on this. Names and Universities so your doctor can't find an excuse not to contact them. A great stroke association would be contacting them and putting together a stroke protocol since the thousands of neurologists and PMR doctors out there will not be doing this unless they are forced to or are hand fed the solution.
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/abstract/37452

Laura D. Crocker¹, Wendy Heller^1*, Stacie L. Warren¹, Aminda O'Hare² and Gregory A. Miller^{1, 3}

¹Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
²Psychology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
³Psychology, University of Delaware, USA

Cognition/emotion relationships and related brain mechanisms are receiving increasing attention in the clinical research literature as a means of understanding diverse types of psychopathology and improving biological and psychological treatments. This paper reviews and integrates the growing evidence for cognitive biases and deficits in depression and anxiety, how these disruptions interact with emotional and motivational processes, and what brain mechanisms appear to be involved. This sets the stage, in turn, for understanding the role of neuroplasticity in implementing lasting change in cognition/emotion processes in psychopathology as a function of intervention.