Deans' stroke musings: Association of depression and anxiety with cognitive impairment 6 months after stroke

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, April 14, 2021

Association of depression and anxiety with cognitive impairment 6 months after stroke

This is directly a result of your doctors and stroke hospital HAVING NOTHING AND DOING NOTHING TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED.

Guidelines do not count, their are mostly useless. In fact 100% recovery is not even in their vocabulary.

Association of depression and anxiety with cognitive impairment 6 months after stroke

Williams OA, Demeyere N.

Neurology|April 13, 2021

Journal Summary

In this investigation involving 437 candidates, researchers sought to examine the connections between general cognitive impairment and domain-specific cognitive impairment with depression and anxiety 6 months after a stroke. The sample consisted of patients with confirmed acute stroke from the OCS-Care Study who were selected on stroke wards in a multisite study and followed up at a 6 months after a stroke assessment. Domain-general and domain-specific poststroke cognitive impairment was found to be strongly associated with depressive symptomatology but not with anxiety symptomatology. Six-month poststroke depression was linked with 6-month impairment on the MoCA and all individual domains evaluated by the OCS. Poststroke anxiety was associated with impairment on the MoCA and spatial attention; these associations did not remain significant after controlling for co-occurring poststroke depression.

Journal Summary

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