Deans' stroke musings: Jumping Genes in the Brain Ensure That Even Identical Twins Are Different

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.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Jumping Genes in the Brain Ensure That Even Identical Twins Are Different

So lets identify some jumping genes that can reprogram themselves to take over and recreate functionality that was damaged/died during our strokes.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-makes-each-brain-unique

Genes we inherit and environmental factors both influence human behaviors. Scientists have recently discovered other underlying processes at work.
So-called jumping genes, segments of DNA that can copy and paste themselves into new places in the genome, can alter the activity of full-length genes. Occasionally they will turn on neighboring genes in these locations. That activity occurs more in the brain than other areas, resulting in different traits and behaviors, even in closely related individuals.
These mobile genetic elements may also turn out to play a role in people’s disposition to psychiatric disorders.
Researchers are now beginning to investigate whether jumping genes help us adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions.