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 27, 2022

App-based mental exercises improve cognitive impairment

Is this enough for your doctor to prescribe this to tackle the cognitive impairment caused by your stroke? Does your doctor have anything else?

App-based mental exercises improve cognitive impairment

Those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment who used the BrainHQ app for visual speed and attention exercises improved neuropsychological measures of speed, attention, memory and connectivity.

Amnestic mild cognitive impairment is a sub-classification of those with mild cognitive impairment who show significant memory impairment and are among the highest at risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Quanjing Chen, PhD, MS, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Rochester, and colleagues enrolled 84 patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Chen and colleagues randomized them into an intervention group who used the BrainHQ app from Posit Science and an active control group who played brain-stimulating games, such as sudoku or solitaire.

Each group was asked to engage in their activities for 1 hour, four times a week, for 6 weeks. Compared with the control group, the intervention group showed significant improvement in standard measures of speed, attention and working memory.

“It was not long ago that the consensus was there’s little to be done for patients with [mild cognitive impairment],” Henry Mahncke, PhD, CEO of Posit Science, said in a company-issued press release. “Fortunately, that consensus is changing.”

According to the release, more than 100 published studies have shown the benefits of the BrainHQ app, and it has shown gains in standard measures of cognition and quality of life. BrainHQ is now offered through Medicare Advantage plus.

Reference:

Chen Q, et al. Neuroimage. 2022;doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119124

 

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