Deans' stroke musings: gain control

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.

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Monday, April 21, 2014

Developing Gain Control in Single Cortical Neurons

From the Univ. Cal. San Diego neurosciences dept. Your doctor should know exactly how much amplitude is required to fire a response and whether your damaged neurons have that ability. I expect my doctor to know one hell of a lot more than I do and that doctor better be a super-mensan.
http://ucsdneuro.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/developing-gain-control-in-single-cortical-neurons/
First, a definition of “gain control” according to Dr. Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington, Seattle) and others in their 2013 Journal of Neuroscience article¹:

“…a neural system’s mapping between inputs and outputs adjusts to dynamically span the varying range of incoming stimuli. In this form of adaptive coding, the nonlinear function relating input to output has the property that the gain with respect to the input scales with the [standard deviation] of the input.”

Your doctor can compare

The single neuron insufficiency principle to this writeup.