I would take this with a grain of salt. But if you want to defy your doctor that is totally up to you, depending on what stroke protocols your doctor already has you doing to improve your brain efficiency.
This Game Makes Your Cortex Thicker, Improves Brain Efficiency, Study Finds - Tetris
The video game that improves brain efficiency.
The study involved 26 adolescent girls playing Tetris for 30 minutes a day over a three-month period.
They were compared to a control group.
At the end, brain scans showed a thicker cerebral cortex in those who had been playing Tetris.
The cortex is the area of the brain linked to higher functions such as memory, attention and planning.
Dr Rex Jung, a neuropsychologist who co-authored the study, said:
“One of the most surprising findings of brain research in the last five years was that juggling practice increased gray matter in the motor areas of the brain.One mystery emerged from the study, though.
We did our Tetris study to see if mental practice increased cortical thickness, a sign of more gray matter.
If it did, it could be an explanation for why previous studies have shown that mental practice increases brain efficiency.
More gray matter in an area could mean that the area would not need to work as hard during Tetris play.”
The cortex thickened in areas that were not related to increasing efficiency.
It is as if you lifted weights with your arms and your leg muscles got bigger.
Dr Richard Haier, who co-authored the study, said:
“We were excited to see cortical thickness differences between the girls that practiced Tetris and those that did not.Bear in mind, though, that practising Tetris typically only makes you better at Tetris, and possibly other similar computer games.
But, it was surprising that these changes were not where we saw more efficiency.
How a thicker cortex and increased brain efficiency are related remains a mystery.”
Psychologists have found relatively little evidence that this sort of improvement is transferable to other tasks.
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