Deans' stroke musings: Transcranial direct current stimulation improves audioverbal memory in stroke patients

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.

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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, October 11, 2017

Transcranial direct current stimulation improves audioverbal memory in stroke patients

If it enhances outcomes write up a fucking stroke protocol. A great stroke association president would make sure all stroke research with positive outcomes would be written up in a publicly available stroke protocol. Otherwise this research is just wasted.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J76784&phrase=no&rec=134604&article_source=Rehab&international=0&international_language=&international_location=
American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 96(8) , Pgs. 565-571.

NARIC Accession Number: J76784. What's this?
ISSN: 0894-9115.
Author(s): Kazuta, Toshinari; Takeda, Kotaro; Osu, Rieko; Tanaka, Satoshi; Oishi, Ayakp; Kondo, Kunitsugu; Liu, Meigen.
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 7.
Abstract: Study investigated whether anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the left temporoparietal area improved audioverbal memory performance in stroke patients. Twelve stroke patients with audioverbal memory impairment participated in a single-masked, crossover, and sham-controlled experiment. The anodal or sham transcranial direct current stimulation was applied during the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, which evaluates the ability to recall a list of 15 heard words over five trials. The number of correctly recalled words was compared between the anodal and sham conditions and the influence of transcranial direct current stimulation on serial position effect of the 15 words was also examined. The increase in the number of correctly recalled words from the first to the fifth trial was significantly greater in the anodal condition than in the sham condition. There was a significant difference between the anodal and sham conditions in the number of correctly recalled words within the first five words (primacy region) over the second to fifth trial trials, but not in the middle (next five words) or recency (last five words) regions. The results indicated that anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the left temporoparietal area improved audioverbal memory performance and induced the primacy effect in stroke patients.
Descriptor Terms: BRAIN, ELECTRICAL STIMULATION, INTERVENTION, MEMORY, PHYSICAL MEDICINE, STROKE.

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Citation: Kazuta, Toshinari, Takeda, Kotaro, Osu, Rieko, Tanaka, Satoshi, Oishi, Ayakp, Kondo, Kunitsugu, Liu, Meigen. (2017). Transcranial direct current stimulation improves audioverbal memory in stroke patients. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 96(8), Pgs. 565-571. Retrieved 10/11/2017, from REHABDATA database.