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, February 1, 2017

Mental Activities May Protect Against Mild Cognitive Impairment

But they put a crossword picture with the article even though that is not one of the activities mentioned. But no specifics, so this is completely useless. Allows these people to do a wonderful job of conscience laundering, 'Well we notified people of the activity in general needed, if you can't read between the lines that is your fault for getting MCI'
http://neurosciencenews.com/mci-mental-activity-6030/

Summary: A new study reports engaging in activities that are mentally stimulating can help to stave off the onset of mild cognitive impairment.
Source: Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that engaging in mentally stimulating activities, even late in life, may protect against new-onset mild cognitive impairment, which is the intermediate stage between normal cognitive aging and dementia. The study found that cognitively normal people 70 or older who engaged in computer use, craft activities, social activities and playing games had a decreased risk of developing mild cognitive impairment. The results are published in the Jan. 31 edition of JAMA Neurology.
Researchers followed 1,929 cognitively normal participants of the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging in Olmsted County, Minn., for an average duration of four years. After adjusting for sex, age and educational level, researchers discovered that the risk of new-onset mild cognitive impairment decreased by 31 percent with computer use, 28 percent with craft activities, 23 percent with social activities, and 22 percent with playing games.
“Our team found that persons who performed these activities at least one to two times per week had less cognitive decline than those who engaged in the same activities only two to three times per month or less,” says Yonas Geda, M.D., psychiatrist and behavioral neurologist at Mayo Clinic’s Arizona campus and senior author of the study.
Researchers conducted a neurocognitive assessment at the time of enrollment in the study, with evaluations every 15 months. Following the assessment, an expert consensus panel at the Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Mayo Clinic made the classification of normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment for each study participant, based on published criteria.
“Our previous cross-sectional study had found an association between engagement in mentally stimulating activities in late life and decreased odds of mild cognitive impairment,” says Dr. Geda. “However, those findings were considered preliminary until confirmed by a prospective cohort study that we are now reporting in JAMA Neurology.”
Image shows a crossword puzzle.
“Even for a person who is at genetic risk for cognitive decline, engaging in some activities was beneficial,” says Janina Krell-Roesch, Ph.D. NeuroscienceNews.com image is for illustrative purposes only.
The benefits of being cognitively engaged even were seen among apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 carriers. APOE ε4 is a genetic risk factor for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s dementia. However, for APOE ε4 carriers, only computer use and social activities were associated with a decreased risk of mild cognitive impairment.
“Even for a person who is at genetic risk for cognitive decline, engaging in some activities was beneficial,” says Janina Krell-Roesch, Ph.D., the first author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Geda’s Translational Neuroscience and Aging Program (TAP). “So I think the signal is there even for APOE ε4 carriers.”
Dr. Geda and his team acknowledge that future research is needed to serve the unmet needs of patients at risk for developing Alzheimer’s and understand the mechanisms linking mentally stimulating activities and cognition in late life.
“What is perhaps most exciting about this effort is that we are expanding the conversation around mental health, particularly among the elderly, to better understand how to remain mentally fit as we age,” says Dr. Geda.
About this neuroscience research article
Source: Julie Janovsky-Mason – Mayo Clinic
Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.
Original Research: Full open access research for “Association Between Mentally Stimulating Activities in Late Life and the Outcome of Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment, With an Analysis of the APOE ε4 Genotype” by Janina Krell-Roesch, PhD; Prashanthi Vemuri, PhD; Anna Pink, MD; Rosebud O. Roberts, MBChB, MS; Gorazd B. Stokin, MD, PhD; Michelle M. Mielke, PhD; Teresa J. H. Christianson, BS; David S. Knopman, MD; Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD; Walter K. Kremers, PhD; and Yonas E. Geda, MD, MSc in JAMA Neurology. Published online January 30 2017 doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.3822

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