0. Try to stop the neuronal cascade of death in the first week. None of these are proven so you won't get your doctor to help save your dying neurons. Unless you can figure out a way to charge your doctor $1 for every neuron that dies in the first week. That would be around $950,000 a minute
What I am going to insist I get after my next stroke
1. I would make sure I have a decent stroke diet. My ideas here:
What would a post-stroke diet look like?
2. I would have music constantly playing.
1. Exploring a Neuroplasticity Model of Music Therapy
2. Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful
3. 11 Problems Music Can Solve
4. How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
5. Why does music therapy work? The Science Behind the Music.
6. Musical Training Can Increase Blood Flow in Brain
7. Listening to classical music ameliorates unilateral neglect after stroke
8. Music brings memories back to the brain injured
9. Plasticity in the sensorimotor cortex induced by Music-supported therapy in stroke patients: a TMS study
10. Moderating variables of music training-induced neuroplasticity: a review and discussion
11. Hand-Clapping Songs Improve Motor and Cognitive Skills, Research Shows
12. Music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery stroke
13. Intensive musical therapy may help improve speech in stroke patients
The classical music one;
Classical Music’s Surprising Effect on Genes Vital to Memory and Learning
3. I would give cognitive training, making survivors smarter should help their recovery even though it might lead to a higher chance of depression. Its been proven that smarter people die less from stroke.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
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Here's more on the shared pathways of music and language.
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That's a great list which I will share, Dean. Have you tried these free neurogames? They are designed to help short-term memory, working memory and face recognition - and you can take as much time as you like to complete them. http://memory.foundation/memory-games/ Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI play the games on AARP, the specific ones that are supposed to be for brain training have never been scientifically proven to be useful, but I'll do them anyway.
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