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.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Memorial U. researchers launch post-stroke search-and-rescue mission - St. JOHN’S, Newfoundland

Finally some researchers doing some correct research. What the hell makes these so special and correct and all the others missing the mark?  Solving the neuronal cascade of death. I couldn't figure out how to leave a reply asking which of the 5 causes they are working on.
http://www.canadianstroke.ca/en/news/memorial-u-researchers-launch-post-stroke-search-and-rescue/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CanadianPartnershipForStrokeRecovery+%28Canadian+Partnership+for+Stroke+Recovery%29
Newfoundlanders know a lot about search and rescue. This beautiful east-coast island has had its share of daring seaside survival stories.
And now CPSR researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland are working hard to bring that grit and determination to stroke recovery research by looking at ways to rescue brain cells and tissue in the stormy aftermath of a stroke.
“We want to find out how to rescue existing brain tissue before it’s too late,” says Dr. Jacqueline Vanderluit, Associate Professor of Neurosciences. “If we can put more tools in the hands of the clinicians, we can get better outcomes and people can have better lives following stroke.”
In the Vanderluit lab, researchers study blood flow in mouse brains after stroke and examine different cell types to see how they respond to big and small strokes.
“The goal is to find ways to manipulate the cells in order to develop new therapies to rescue brain tissue,” doctoral student Kathleen Fifield says. “If we can find other areas to explore by examining dysfunction at the cellular level, we can determine the critical time point for interventions like neuroprotective drugs.”
Identifying new drug targets for stroke is important because existing treatments have limited time windows and not all patients are eligible.
Dr. Vanderluit and her team are also looking at the impact of a high-fat diet and obesity on the size and severity of stroke. Obesity creates an inflammatory response in the body that can worsen stroke outcomes, and obesity rates are high in Newfoundland.
“We are looking at the impact of a very small stroke in obese animals and specifically in the first 48 hours,” Dr. Vanderluit says. “We want to find new targets to promote survival of brain tissue.”
Finding new and effective treatments to save cells, repair damage, and promote stroke recovery could be one of Newfoundland’s greatest search-and-rescue stories yet.

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