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.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Two Drinks Together That Supercharge Memory And Attention - Sugar and caffeine

Since sugar now has a terrible reputation, I'd prefer to see if research would ok caffeine and dark chocolate. But we'll never know since we have NO one to ask these simple questions. Our fucking failures of stroke associations don't care about survivor questions, none have a survivor ombudsman. 

But this was already explained in May 2013; So your stroke hospital has been incompetent since then for not having this for breakfast.




Scans revealed that together they make the brain more efficient.
Sugary drinks that also contain caffeine can supercharge memory and attention, according to a brain scanning study. Together they make the brain more efficient, lowering the amount of processing it needs to perform the same task. Brain scans showed that people given glucose and caffeine performed just as well on a task with less activation in their brains. In other words, their brains did not have to work as hard to do the same task. It is similar to the way a professional athlete can put in less effort to cover the same distance as a person of ordinary fitness. Surprisingly, caffeine on its own had little effect. Josep M. Serra Grabulosa, the study’s first author, explained: “Our main finding is that the combination of the two substances improves cognitive performance in terms of sustained attention and working memory by increasing the efficiency of the areas of the brain responsible for these two functions.” For the study 40 people were given either 75g of glucose, 75mg of caffeine, both, or a placebo. They were given tests of memory and attention while their brains were scanned. Only the combination of glucose (sugar) and caffeine caused the boost in performance.

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