Deans' stroke musings: Not all minds that wander are lost: the importance of a balanced perspective on the mind-wandering state

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.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Not all minds that wander are lost: the importance of a balanced perspective on the mind-wandering state

You will need to make sure your doctor doesn't immediately assign inattention as a sign of cognitive dysfunction and use Occams' razor to blame the stroke. Challenge your doctor about everything that comes out of her/his mouth. Supposedly they should be able to run rings about you cognitively since you are the stroke-addled one.
My next stroke is going to be so much fun, I plan on leaving all the medical staff sputtering in impotent rage.
And exactly what research/references proves what you are suggesting for recovery works? Print them out for me.
What is the efficacy percent?
What is Your efficacy percent?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23966961?dopt=Abstract

Smallwood J, Andrews-Hanna J.

Source

The Department of Social Neuroscience, The Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany.

Abstract

The waking mind is often occupied with mental contents that are minimally constrained by events in the here and now. These self-generated thoughts-e.g., mind-wandering or daydreaming-interfere with external task performance and can be a marker for unhappiness and even psychiatric problems. They also occupy our thoughts for upwards of half of the time, and under non-demanding conditions they (i) allow us to connect our past and future selves together, (ii) help us make successful long-term plans and (iii) can provide a source of creative inspiration. The lengths that the mind goes to self-generate thought, coupled with its apparent functionality, suggest that the mind places a higher priority on such cognition than on many other mental acts. Although mind-wandering may be unpleasant for the individual who experiences it and disruptive to the tasks of the moment, self-generated thought allows consciousness freedom from the here and now and so reflects a key evolutionary adaptation for the mind. Here we synthesize recent literature from cognitive and clinical psychology and propose two formal hypotheses that (1) highlight task context and thought content as critical factors that constrain the costs and benefits of self-generated thought and (2) provide direction on ways to investigate the costs and benefits from an impartial perspective.