Deans' stroke musings: Being Happy Is Not Just “In Your Genes”

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, July 21, 2016

Being Happy Is Not Just “In Your Genes” — You Need More

Does your doctor understand your mental filter (cognitive bias) to get you into a happy state even after your stroke? Does your psychologist?
http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/07/happy-not-just-genes-need.php?omhide=true&utm_source=PsyBlog&utm_campaign=54a835224f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_MAILCHIMP&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10ef814328-54a835224f-213838825

How the same genes can be linked to both happiness and depression.

Certain genes linked to mental health can lead to both happiness and depression, a new review concludes.

It all depends on the environment in which a person is brought up.
Supportive environments can lead to positive biases in seeing the world (essentially: happiness).
Unsupportive environments can lead to the opposite.
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“‘Cognitive biases are when people consistently interpret situations though particular mental ‘filters’ – when people have a cognitive bias that emphasises negative aspects or thoughts, they are more at risk of mental health disorders.
There is a lot of research about these biases, and a lot of research about genes that may make people susceptible to mental ill health.
However, we suggest that it could make more sense to bring together these two areas of research.”

Professor Fox is currently researching how genes and the environment combine to affect our cognitive filters.