Deans' stroke musings: Effect of cognitive reserve on risk of cognitive impairment and recovery after stroke: The KOSCO Study

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.

Friday, January 10, 2020

Effect of cognitive reserve on risk of cognitive impairment and recovery after stroke: The KOSCO Study

Ask your doctor to find and give you this cognitive reserve test. I'm sure I used up all my cognitive reserve just surviving my stroke. Hope I can build it up again to prevent my likely dementia. I see absolutely nothing out there that tells me EXACTLY how to build up cognitive reserve.

Effect of cognitive reserve on risk of cognitive impairment and recovery after stroke: The KOSCO Study

Stroke — Shin M, Sohn MK, Lee J, et al. | January 10, 2020

In this interim analysis of the Korean Stroke Cohort for Functioning and Rehabilitation involving 7,459 individuals with first-ever stroke, researchers ascertained if the cognitive reserve (CR) has a modulating impact on cognitive impairment and recovery following stroke. Education, occupation, and composite CR scores derived from those two variables have been used as CR proxies. According to results, lower CR raised the risk of cognitive impairment following stroke. Occupation and education can buffer a person against stroke-induced cognitive impairment and encourage rapid cognitive recovery early after stroke. Additionally, higher education, especially in older patients, minimizes long-term cognitive decline after stroke.