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 26, 2015

Apathy after stroke

What the hell is your doctor doing to correct this problem after your stroke? Any stroke protocols to correct this problem?
Maybe you need to read these and train your doctor.
The readable article here:

Apathy Explained: Why Some People Just Can’t Be Bothered

“We know that in some cases people can become pathologically apathetic, for example after a stroke or with Alzheimer’s disease.
Many such patients can be physically capable.

Yet they can become so demotivated they won’t be bothered to care for themselves, even though they’re not depressed.
Scans showed that the pre-motor cortex in the brains of apathetic people was consistently more active than in motivated people.
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The research it is based upon here:

Individual Differences in Premotor Brain Systems Underlie Behavioral Apathy

This is fascinating since when I look at my dead brain area it looks like most of my premotor cortex on the right side is dead. And I have no apathy whatsoever. Is my left side premotor cortex taking up that task? So many questions and not one fucking person in the world to ask them of.