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.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The Rewiring Brain - Chapter 3 – Structural Neural Plasticity During Stroke Recovery

You'll have to ask your doctor what stroke protocols came out of this book that help you get to 100% recovery.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128037843000032


Abstract

Focal ischemic stroke is in many ways reminiscent of an earthquake. Its effects on structure and function are immediate and most strongly experienced by those closest to it. During the initial stages, a neurons’ first priority is survival and there are remarkable imaging studies to show how resilient neuronal structure can be in the face of death. For the neurons that do survive, they must overcome waves of aberrant electrical activity, inflammation and other insults that reverberate for days after stroke(neuronal cascade of death), and further strip them of their synaptic connections. Once these stroke aftershocks have subsided, neurons must rebuild and establish new and meaningful lines of communication. Indeed, experimental data show that dendritic spine formation, axonal growth, and synaptogenesis surge in the weeks that follow stroke. This period of growth correlates with the emergence of new receptive fields and patterns of brain activity that are considered essential for recovering functions lost to stroke. This chapter will highlight important experimental advances in this field, provide the most up-to-date perspective on structural neuronal plasticity in the stroke-affected brain, and define controversies for future studies to resolve.

Keywords

  • Stroke;
  • dendrites;
  • dendritic spines;
  • axonal sprouting;
  • plasticity;
  • repair
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