Deans' stroke musings: Adenosine and Astrocytes Control Critical Periods of Neural Plasticity

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.

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Adenosine and Astrocytes Control Critical Periods of Neural Plasticity

I guess you'll have to have your doctor get this article AND write a protocol on neuroplasticity so it can be repeatable on demand.

Adenosine and Astrocytes Control Critical Periods of Neural Plasticity

Irene Martínez-Gallego and Antonio Rodríguez-Moreno https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8078-6175 arodmor@upo.esView all authors and affiliations

OnlineFirst

https://doi.org/10.1177/10738584221126632

Abstract

Windows of plasticity are fundamental for the correct formation of definitive brain circuits; these periods drive sensory and motor learning during development and ultimately learning and memory in adults. However, establishing windows of plasticity also imposes limitations on the central nervous system in terms of its capacity to recover from injury. Recent evidence highlights the important role that astrocytes and adenosine seem to play in controlling the duration of these critical periods of plasticity.