Deans' stroke musings: Study identifies part of brain key to controlling attention

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.

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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.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Study identifies part of brain key to controlling attention

Being prone to distraction seems to be a common post-stroke occurence. Would damage here explain your problems? What stroke protocol does your doctor have to address these prloblems?
Does your doctor have ANY stroke rehab protocols?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287692.php

Are you prone to distraction? Was your attention caught by something outside the window before you reached the end of that last sentence? Why does that happen? A group of scientists believe they have the answer, identifying a group of neurons in the brain that may be responsible for lapses in concentration.

The study is the first time that researchers have managed to convincingly identify a network of neurons responsible for focusing attention.

The team from McGill University in Canada have reported that a network of neurons located in the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) work together to filter visual information to enable focus while ignoring distractions.
Their work, published in Neuron, could have huge implications for people with neurological disease such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia, in which attentional focus is dysfunctional.
Previous studies had mainly documented the activity of neurons in the LPFC in response to visual attention independent of each other. "However, in realistic settings, ensembles of simultaneously active LPFC neurons must generate attentional signals on a single-trial basis," write the authors.

More at link.