Deans' stroke musings: Physical exercise, neuroplasticity, spatial learning and memory

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.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Physical exercise, neuroplasticity, spatial learning and memory

Well shit, how many research articles on exercise promoting neuroplasticity have to be written before we write up a stroke protocol on them? I've written 8 posts on exercise and neuroplasticity. Your doctor should know about all of them.This wasting of research dollars needs to stop. A strategy would solve this problem if we had any stroke leadership at all. But all we have is crap leadership.
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26646070
Cassilhas RC, Tufik S, de Mello MT

Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ricardo.cassilhas@ufvjm.gov.br.

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences : CMLS [2015]

Type: Journal Article

Abstract

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There has long been discussion regarding the positive effects of physical exercise on brain activity. However, physical exercise has only recently(wrong) begun to receive the attention of the scientific community, with major interest in its effects on the cognitive functions, spatial learning and memory, as a non-drug method of maintaining brain health and treating neurodegenerative and/or psychiatric conditions. In humans, several studies have shown the beneficial effects of aerobic and resistance exercises in adult and geriatric populations. More recently, studies employing animal models have attempted to elucidate the mechanisms underlying neuroplasticity related to physical exercise-induced spatial learning and memory improvement, even under neurodegenerative conditions. In an attempt to clarify these issues, the present review aims to discuss the role of physical exercise in the improvement of spatial learning and memory and the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in neuroplasticity.