Deans' stroke musings: People Good At Swearing Have This Major Advantage

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, December 14, 2015

People Good At Swearing Have This Major Advantage - larger vocabulary

I knew a guy with aphasia from a stroke bowling group who could swear up a storm. I don't think this finding necessarily applies to him.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/12/people-good-at-swearing-have-this-major-advantage.php?
People who know more swear words also have stronger verbal abilities, a new study finds.
Knowing how to swear, then, is not a sign of a poor vocabulary — in fact it signals a better vocabulary.

The study tested how many different swear words people could think of in 60 seconds.
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One caveat: this study does not test or suggest that using lots of swear words is a sign of a larger vocabulary.
It only tested (and found) that knowing them is linked to a larger vocabulary.
The new study was published in the journal Language Sciences (Jay & Jay, 2015).

More at link.