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.

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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.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Accelerated MRI brain mapping technique to improve neurodegenerative diagnosis

Just when the hell will this be used to generate an objective stroke damage diagnosis? I'm betting never because we have NO stroke leadership to push anything innovative that might be useful for stroke.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-mri-brain-technique-neurodegenerative-diagnosis.html
A new brain imaging technique developed by University of Queensland researchers is paving the way for improved diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.
UQ Centre for Advanced Imaging physicist and chief developer Dr Daniel Stäb said the , using UQ's 7-Tesla MRI scanner, was a faster and more efficient way to characterise the brain's tissue properties with a high image resolution.
"The scanner is one of only two currently in Australia," Dr Stäb said.
"We are now able to map the magnetic tissue properties of the whole brain in less than 40 seconds, which is seven times faster than common techniques that have the same image quality.
"This was achieved by combining an advanced data acquisition with novel image reconstruction techniques."
NIF Facility Fellow and biomedical engineer Dr Steffen Bollmann said the new technique would improve patient comfort.
"This accelerated technique reduces the chance of a patient's head movement during an MRI examination which leads to a higher quality image of the brain and improved diagnosis.
Head of ultra-high field MRI research Associate Professor Markus Barth said the new would have a substantial impact on the early diagnosis of neurodegeneration.
"There is evidence that changes in iron metabolism and myelination - the protective coating around nerve fibres - leads to degeneration of nerve fibres in the ," Dr Barth said.
"These recent advances in imaging and improvements of mapping iron and myelin will have a substantial impact on the early diagnosis of neurodegeneration."
Professor David Reutens, neurologist and director of UQ's Centre for Advanced Imaging, said dementia and are causing an increasing burden of disease in Australia.
"Fast and reliable tissue characterisation techniques like this one will allow for earlier detection and more accurate of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases which will lead to early treatment for patients," Professor Reutens said.
Provided by: University of Queensland search and more info

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