Deans' stroke musings: Sensorimotor Adaptation - Multiple Forms of Plasticity in Motor Circuits

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.

Monday, March 16, 2015

Sensorimotor Adaptation - Multiple Forms of Plasticity in Motor Circuits

How is your doctor adapting your stroke protocols to this new knowledge?
http://nro.sagepub.com/content/21/2/109?etoc
Valeria Della-Maggiore1
    Sofia M. Landi2
    Jorge I. Villalta1

    1Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    2Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

    Valeria Della-Maggiore, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Paraguay 2155, 7th Floor, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Email: vdellamaggiore@fmed.uba.ar

Abstract

One of the most striking properties of the adult central nervous system is its ability to undergo changes in function and/or structure. In mammals, learning is a major inducer of adaptive plasticity. Sensorimotor adaptation is a type of procedural—motor—learning that allows maintaining accurate movements in the presence of environmental or internal perturbations by adjusting motor output. In this work, we will review experimental evidence gathered from rodents and human and nonhuman primates pointing to possible sites of adaptation-related plasticity at different levels of organization of the nervous system.