Use of computer stimulating programs in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment.

So you are saying you got brain training games to work when other research shows no effect? So write up a protocol on this and distribute to all the stroke hospitals in the world, OR figure out a way to distribute it to all 10 million yearly stroke survivors  from now  into perpetuity.

From here comes this:

Do “Brain-Training” Programs Work?

Summary In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training interventions, or “brain games,” for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus statement from an international group of more than 70 scientists, claimed that brain games do not provide a scientifically grounded way to improve cognitive functioning or to stave off cognitive decline. Several months later, an international group of 133 scientists and practitioners countered that the literature is replete with demonstrations of the benefits of brain training for a wide variety of cognitive and everyday activities. How could two teams of scientists examine the same literature and come to conflicting “consensus” views about the effectiveness of brain training? 

Use of computer stimulating programs in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment.

Использование компьютерных стимулирующих программ у пациентов с постинсультными когнитивными нарушениями.  Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics , Volume 9(3) , Pgs. 48-53.

NARIC Accession Number: I245784.  What's this?
Author(s): Prokopenko S.V; Dyadyuk T.V; Mozheyko E.Yu; Bezdenezhnykh A.F; Koryagina T.D; Anay-Ool T.S.
Publication Year: 2017.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of using computer stimulation programs (CSPs) for acute ischemic stroke (IS) in patients with cognitive impairment (CI). To this end, 81 patients aged 40 to 79 years with post-stroke CI (PSCI) were examined and randomized into two groups: a study group of 45 people, including 31 and 14 patients with predementia CI and mild dementia, respectively, and a median age of 61 [55; 68] years; and a comparison group of 36 patients, including 21 and 15 patients with predementia CI and mild dementia and a median age was 64 [57; 70] years. In addition to standard stroke therapy, the study group received a ten-day correction cycle for CI, by using CSPs. Cognitive functions (CF) were evaluated before and after classes, by applying a short mental status questionnaire (SMSQ), a battery of frontal lobe dysfunction tests (BFLDT), a clock drawing test, and a speech activity test. After 10 days of therapy (at 18–20 days of IS), the patients were observed to have statistically significant improvements of cognitive functions in all major neuropsychological scales: SMSQ, BFLDT, a clock drawing test, and a speech activity test (p>0.05). Assessing the total indicators of SMSQ subtests in both groups showed that the study group achieved statistically significant differences in memory, time and place orientation, and concentration. In the study group, the total values of BFTLD subtests were also statistically better in indicators such as speech fluency (by 33.0%), dynamic praxis (by 23.3%), a simple choice reaction (by 30.0%), and a complicated choice reaction (by 26.7%). At the same time, not only trained functions (attention, memory), but also other cognitive indicators improved. Re-examination demonstrated that the achieved results persisted 6-8 months later. In summary, CSPs are a promising area of neurorehabilitation. The method is effective, easy-to-use; the patients can do lessons at hospital and at home after discharge in the presence of relatives or by themselves. Further investigations will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of CSPs in patients with PSCI in the later periods of IS.
Descriptor Terms: Cognition, Computer applications, Cognitive rehabilitation, Stroke.
Language: Russian
Geographic Location(s): Europe, Russia.

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Citation: Prokopenko S.V, Dyadyuk T.V, Mozheyko E.Yu, Bezdenezhnykh A.F, Koryagina T.D, Anay-Ool T.S. (2017). Use of computer stimulating programs in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment.  Использование компьютерных стимулирующих программ у пациентов с постинсультными когнитивными нарушениями.  Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics , 9(3), Pgs. 48-53. Retrieved 11/22/2019, from REHABDATA database.