Deans' stroke musings: Transcranial direct current stimulation in post stroke aphasia and primary progressive aphasia: Current knowledge and future clinical applications

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, December 15, 2016

Transcranial direct current stimulation in post stroke aphasia and primary progressive aphasia: Current knowledge and future clinical applications

You will need to ask your doctor what stroke protocol came out of this and its' efficacy.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J74721&phrase=no&rec=131966&article_source=Rehab&international=0&international_language=&international_location=
Neurorehabilitation , Volume 39(1) , Pgs. 141-152.

NARIC Accession Number: J74721. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Sebastian, Rajani; Tsapkini, Kyrana; Tippett, Donna C..
Publication Year: 2016.
Number of Pages: 12.
Abstract: Article reviews the current literature on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as it is being used as a research tool, and discusses future implementation of tDCS as an adjuvant treatment to behavioral speech-language pathology intervention. The authors review research describing non-invasive brain stimulation, the mechanism of tDCS, and studies of tDCS in aphasia and neurodegenerative disorders. The application of tDCS in chronic post-stroke aphasia is well-documented in the literature,(but probably not publicly available to survivors) and there is some new evidence that tDCS can augment favorable language outcomes in primary progressive aphasia. Anodal tDCS is most often applied to the left hemisphere language areas to increase cortical excitability (increase the threshold of activation) and cathodal tDCS is most often applied to the right hemisphere homotopic areas to inhibit over activation in contralesional right homologues of language areas. Outcomes usually are based on neuropsychological and language test performance, following a medical model which emphasizes impairment of function, rather than a model which emphasizes functional communication. tDCS is a promising adjunct to traditional speech-language pathology intervention to address speech-language deficits after stroke and in the neurodegenerative disease, primary progressive aphasia. Limited data are available regarding how performance on these types of specific tasks translates to functional communication outcomes.