Deans' stroke musings: Paired Associative Stimulation with Brain-Computer Interfaces: A New Paradigm for Stroke Rehabilitation

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 14, 2016

Paired Associative Stimulation with Brain-Computer Interfaces: A New Paradigm for Stroke Rehabilitation

Are you imagining the specific movement you should be during therapy or are you thinking about outside food or sex?
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-39955-3_25

Nikolaus Sabathiel
, Danut C. Irimia
, Brendan Z. Allison
, Christoph Guger
, Günter Edlinger

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Abstract

In conventional rehabilitation therapy to help persons with stroke recover movement, there is no objective way to evaluate each patient’s motor imagery. Thus, patients may receive rewarding feedback even when they are not complying with the task instructions to imagine specific movements. Paired associative stimulation (PAS) uses brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to evaluate movement imagery in real-time, and use this information to control feedback presented to the patient. We introduce this approach and the RecoveriX system, a hardware and software platform for PAS. We then present initial results from two stroke patients who used RecoveriX, followed by future directions.