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.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Melodic Intonation Therapy for Aphasia

This was written up in 1973. Singing has a different center than speech.
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/2/130






Abstract



A new form of language therapy has been used successfully with aphasic patients who had severe, long-term, stable defects and for whom other forms of therapy had failed. One explanation for these results suggests that latent language capacities of the nondominant hemisphere may be stimulated.


This one has 6 pages and explains it much better. At least this even lists a protocol.
http://www.musicianbrain.com/papers/Norton_MelodicIntonationTherapy_nyas_04859.pdf
THE NEUROSCIENCES AND MUSIC III: DISORDERS AND PLASTICITY
Melodic Intonation Therapy
Shared Insights onHow It Is Done andWhy
It Might Help
Andrea Norton, Lauryn Zipse, Sarah Marchina,
and Gottfried Schlaug
Music, Stroke Recovery, and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
For more than 100 years, clinicians have noted that patients with nonfluent aphasia are
capable of singing words that they cannot speak. Thus, the use of melody and rhythm
has long been recommended for improving aphasic patients’ fluency, but itwas not until
1973 that a music-based treatment [Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT)] was developed.
Our ongoing investigation of MIT’s efficacy has provided valuable insight into this
therapy’s effect on language recovery. Here we share those observations, our additions
to the protocol that aim to enhanceMIT’s benefit, and the rationale that supports them.
Key words: Melodic Intonation Therapy; nonfluent aphasia; language recovery; brain
plasticity; music therapy

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