You've described a problem, offered NO solution; TOTALLY FUCKING USELESS! I'd have you all fired! The whole point of stroke research is to get survivors recovered, NOT to get yourself published!
Post-stroke patients have difficulty following instructions, making rehabilitation uncertain
Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba examined how a stroke affects the ability to follow changing instructions.
Every year, about 18,000 people in Israel suffer a stroke, but only about 5,200 receive advanced disability-preventing treatments within the available time window.
Some 15 million people worldwide suffer a stroke every year; five million die, and another five million are left permanently disabled, placing a burden on families and communities. Stroke is one of the three leading causes of death and one of the main causes of disability in the Western world.
Every day, we use our capacity to understand instructions for routine daily activities that have a major impact on stroke patients’ rehabilitation but have never been studied before.
Dr. Reut Binyamin-Netser and Prof. Lior Shmuelof from the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba examined how a stroke affects the ability to follow changing instructions and what cognitive abilities underlie this ability.
The study was conducted at the Joint Laboratory for Neurological Rehabilitation Research of BGU and ADI-Negev Nahalat Eran. Anat Shaked Ravni, BGU engineer, also participated in the study.
They and their team have just published their findings in the journal Neuropsychology under the title “Rapid instructed task learning is impaired after stroke and associated with impairments in prepotent inhibition and processing speed.”
Stroke usually occurs because of a sudden disruption in the blood supply to brain tissue by a blood clot or bleeding, resulting in neuronal damage that can present in various ways.
Causing cognitive impairment
One of the most common disabilities that occurs (72% of cases) after stroke is cognitive impairment: memory and attention problems and difficulties that require executive functions, adaptation processes to change, adjustments to unexpected situations, and self-control.
These disabilities lead to functional deficits, a lower chance of independent functioning after stroke, and difficulty participating in and benefiting from their rehabilitation treatment.
To investigate the phenomenon, the researchers examined two groups of subjects living at ADI-Negev. One group consisted of 31 stroke patients, while 36 people who had not suffered a stroke but were in the same age range (55 to 75) served as a control group.
All participants in the study were given computerized tasks in which they had to respond to stimuli according to their color and location on the screen, as well as other tasks designed to characterize cognitive abilities, such as response inhibition ability and information processing speed using symbols.
The results showed decreased accuracy and response times during instruction following a stroke. In addition, there was a decrease in information processing speed and response inhibition, the ability to suppress prepotent behavior that is inappropriate or no longer required. A relationship was also found between the patient’s response inhibition abilities and ability to follow instructions.
THE INABILITY to respond makes it difficult for patients to be rehabilitated, said Binyamin-Netser. Understanding instructions and tasks is also the basis for motor rehabilitation – opening/closing bottle lids, picking up a glass of water and drinking it, arranging puzzles, picking small objects from one container and moving them to another, turning doorknobs, reading magazines, and turning the pages of books or newspapers.
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