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.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The distinctly different brains of “SuperAgers”

What is your doctor doing to get your brain close in makeup to these “SuperAgers”?  ANYTHING AT ALL?

The distinctly different brains of “SuperAgers” 

Scientists are gaining insights into the cognitive abilities of "SuperAgers" and why their memories are more resilient against the ravages of time than are other older people's. ABC News reports today on new research:
The SuperAgers were picked to be studied because all were over age 80 and had the memory capability of a person 20 to 30 years their junior according to the study recently published in the Journal of Neurology.
To understand how SuperAgers managed to keep their mental ability intact, researchers performed a battery of tests on them, including MRI scans on 12 SuperAgers and post-mortem studies on five other SuperAgers to understand the make-up of their brains.
“The brains of the SuperAgers are either wired differently or have structural differences when compared to normal individuals of the same age,” Changiz Geula, a study senior author and a research professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, said in a prepared statement. “It may be one factor, such as expression of a specific gene, or a combination of factors that offers protection.”
The article goes on to explain that participants' unusual brain signature had three common components in comparison to normal people of similar ages: notably fewer tangles (a primary marker of Alzheimer’s disease), a thicker region of the cortex and a significant supply of a neuron called von Economo, which is linked to higher social intelligence.
Previously: What brain scans reveal about "super agers", The secret to living longer? It's all in the 'tude and Healthy aging the focus of Stanford study

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