I'm sure your doctor and psychologist won't have a protocol to make sure you have positive beliefs about aging in order to counteract your 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study?
Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%.
A 20% chance in this research.
Does your doctor know anything? Have a protocol to prevent your descent into dementia? Doing ANYTHING AT ALL?
You are going to have to create your own dementia prevention protocol because no one is going to do it for you. I can't because I'm not medically trained. You can't either because you are probably not medically trained either. So you're screwed because your stroke professionals haven't done a damn thing.
http://neurosciencenews.com/negative-aging-alzheimers-3230/
Newly published research led by the Yale School of Public
Health demonstrates that individuals who hold negative beliefs about
aging are more likely to have brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s
disease.
The study suggests that combatting negative beliefs about aging, such
as elderly people are decrepit, could potentially offer a way to reduce
the rapidly rising rate of Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating
neurodegenerative disorder that causes dementia in more than 5 million
Americans.
The study led by Becca Levy, associate professor of public health and
of psychology, is the first to link the brain changes related to
Alzheimer’s disease to a cultural-based psychosocial risk factor. The
findings were published online Dec. 7 in the journal Psychology and Aging.
“We believe it is the stress generated by the negative beliefs about
aging that individuals sometimes internalize from society that can
result in pathological brain changes,” said Levy. “Although the findings
are concerning, it is encouraging to realize that these negative
beliefs about aging can be mitigated and positive beliefs about aging
can be reinforced, so that the adverse impact is not inevitable.”
Study authors examined healthy, dementia-free subjects from the
Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, the nation’s longest-running
scientific study of aging. Based on MRIs, the researchers found that
participants who held more negative beliefs about aging showed a greater
decline in the volume of the hippocampus, a part of the brain crucial
to memory. Reduced hippocampus volume is an indicator of Alzheimer’s
disease.
Then researchers used brain autopsies to examine two other indicators
of Alzheimer’s disease: amyloid plaques, which are protein clusters
that build up between brain cells; and neurofibrillary tangles, which
are twisted strands of protein that build up within brain cells.
Participants holding more negative beliefs about aging had a
significantly greater number of plaques and tangles. The age stereotypes
were measured an average of 28 years before the plaques and tangles.
In both stages of the study, Levy and her colleagues adjusted for
other known risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, including health and
age.
Original Research: The study will appear in Psychology and Aging during the week of December 7 2015.
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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.
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