Didn't your competent? doctor have you chewing gum before any cognitive testing? NO? So you DON'T HAVE A FUNCTIONING STROKE DOCTOR, DO YOU?
I bet your doctor HAS BEEN COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT FOR OVER A DECADE!
I covered a lot of this earlier here:
Chew Yourself a Better Brain March 2012
The impact of mastication on cognition: evidence for intervention and the role of adult hippocampal neurogenesis April 2016
But all the negatives here:
6 ways chewing gum is wrecking your health
Send me hate mail on this: oc1dean@gmail.com. I'll print your complete statement with your name and my response in my blog. Or are you afraid to engage with my stroke-addled mind? I'm curious why you don't know more about stroke than a stroke survivor.
The latest one here:
Chewing gum moderates the vigilance decrement
Abstract
We examine the impact of chewing gum on a Bakan-type vigilance task that requires the continual updating of short-term order memory. Forty participants completed a 30-min auditory Bakan-task either with, or without, the requirement to chew gum. Self-rated measures of mood were taken both pre- and post-task. As expected, the vigilance task produced a time-dependent performance decrement indexed via decreases in target detections and lengthened correct reaction times (RTs), and a reduction in post-task self-rated alertness scores. The declines in both performance and subjective alertness were attenuated in the chewing-gum group. In particular, correct RTs were significantly shorter following the chewing of gum in the latter stages of the task. Additionally, the gradients of decline for target detection and incline for correct RTs were both attenuated for the chewing-gum group. These findings are consistent with the data of Tucha and Simpson (2011), Appetite, 56, 299–301, who showed beneficial effects of chewing gum in the latter stages of a 30 min visual attention task, and extend their data to a task that necessitates the continuous updating of order memory. It is noteworthy that our data contradict the claim (Kozlov, Hughes, & Jones, 2012, Q. J. Exp. Psychology, 65, 501–513) that chewing gum negatively impacts short-term memory task performance.
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