1. Delivery of tPA while still in the ambulance, within 15 minutes. None of this lazy-ass 60 minutes after getting to the hospital. Scanning is way too slow, expensive and requires a neurologist on duty. Forget putting a scanner in the ambulance, that's stupid because with that money you could solve one of the 17 diagnosis possibilities.
When are we going to fund researchers to test out these 17 diagnosis possibilities to find out which one is the best? Or maybe the Qualcomm Xprize for the tricorder?
2. Solve the neuronal cascade of death. By solving this you are stopping the stroke in its tracks rather than letting it continue to kill neurons for the next week. I probably lost 5.4 billion neurons in the week following the stroke. Your doctor should be able to estimate that number pretty closely, they've had 15 million strokes a year for case studies.
Here are the 5 possible causes;
http://www.oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/11/lysosomal-membrane-permeabilization-as.html
Challenge researchers to solve them.
3. Solve how neuroplasticity works. Saying to use neuroplasticity to recover is pretty much fucking worthless.By knowing how and why a neighboring neuron drops its extsting task and takes on a new one we will finally be able to make this automatically repeatable. This would help all the current survivors out there. Use one of these two methods to listen in on neuron communications:
Researchers Inject Tiny, Rolled-Up Electronics into the Brain Using a Syringe
Harvard scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind method of creating a class of nanowires
4. Solve the neurogenesis and angiogenesis puzzles. This would allow survivors to repair/relocate functions in the dead areas in their brains.
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