How will your doctor use this information to help you get to 100% recovery?
http://www.nature.com/news/the-tantalizing-links-between-gut-microbes-and-the-brain-1.18557
Neuroscientists are probing the idea that intestinal microbiota might influence brain development and behaviour.
Dean,
ReplyDeleteMy stroke was caused by the Whipple's bacterial infecting my upper intestine for months (more likely years), and caused me to lose 40 lbs in 4 months, then it got in my brain, killing a 2.5 x 4.0 cm area of the upper motor cortex.
My doctors think Whipple's caused a vascilitus type process starving neurons of blood flow, but I can't help but wonder if it is more complicated, as discussed in this article.
The Whipple's was not diagnosed for 2 weeks after stroke put me in the hospital. So, I conclude the neuron cascade of death got going pretty good until IV antibiotics were started to kill the bacteria. Unfortunately, neurons did not come back and no spontaneous recovery for me!
I need help stimulating plasticity, so I want more research like this!