Deans' stroke musings: The effects of age and attention on motor overflow production

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.

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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, May 7, 2021

The effects of age and attention on motor overflow production — A review

You just might want your doctor to get the full research and use it to apply recovery protocols to your situation.

The effects of age and attention on motor overflow - A review

Patricia K. Addamo a,⁎,

Maree Farrow b,

Kate E. Hoy a,c,

John L. Bradshaw a,

Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis a

a Experimental Neuropsychology Research Unit, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University,Clayton, 3800, Victoria, Australia
b Howard Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia
c Alfred Hospital Psychiatry Research Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, 3004, Victoria, Australia

Article history:
Accepted 15 January 2007Available online 20 January 2007

ABSTRACT

Motor overflow refers to overt involuntary movement, or covert muscle activity, that sometimes co-occurs with voluntary movement. Various clinical populations exhibit overflow. Motor overflow is also present in healthy children and the elderly, although in young adults, overt overflow is considered abnormal unless elicited under conditions of extreme force or muscle fatigue. Current theories of overflow imply that the corpus callosum may mediate production of this phenomenon. However, given that the corpus callosum is a conduit enabling the transfer of cortical information, surprisingly few studies have considered the cortical or subcortical structures underlying overflow. This review considers the developmental trend of motor overflow production, specifically in the upper-limbs, and the mechanisms thought to underlie this age-related phenomenon. Potential neurological correlates of motor overflow will be discussed in conjunction with higher order attentional processes which also regulate motor overflow production. Future research investigating the impact of attentional processes on overflow production may be particularly valuable for designing rehabilitation strategies for patients experiencing induced pathological overflow or conversely, to develop techniques to encourage the recovery of movement function in individuals with paretic limbs.Crown Copyright © 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.