Two breakthroughs on dementia — one that’s useful right now

Already wrote on the second one, sleeping pill  Suvorexant.  Ask your doctor  on both of these.

Two breakthroughs on dementia — one that’s useful right now

The Way We Learn Today Is Just Wrong

I'm sure the same can be said for how stroke survivors relearn their lost functions. But NOTHING will be done about this in stroke rehab because we have NO FUCKING STROKE LEADERSHIP to bring such sensible ideas to fruition. 

The Way We Learn Today Is Just Wrong

Brains in Pain Cannot Learn!

Your doctor should be making sure you are not in any sort of pain(CPSP, PTSD, physical, anxiety) because our brains need to learn a lot of new stuff in order to recover.

Brains in Pain Cannot Learn!

AllTrials calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their full methods and summary results reported.

This is where our stroke associations could finally do some good, they could join this and get all stroke trials published. This statement from Dr. Michael Tymianski, of the Toronto Western Hospital Research Institute in Canada who talked about 1000+ failed neuroprotective drugs years ago. We should know exactly what those 1000+ trials were trying to accomplish and why they failed. If we don't learn from our failures we are doomed to repeat them.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula  ?

“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven  

“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  
  
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” (This is not the way we relearn to walk after a stroke)
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad  
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Bill Gates 
(And I am a damned unhappy survivor, what are the stroke associations doing to learn from me?) 
   
http://www.alltrials.net/find-out-more/all-trials/

The Secret To Learning is Reverse of Conventional Wisdom

I'm sure in 50 years this will be implemented as part of your stroke protocol. We really don't care that you will be dead by then. It takes a long time to move the grounded ship of medical knowledge. Especially since they have purposely thrown dozens of anchors overboard.
Good luck, you'll need it.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/04/the-secret-to-learning-is-reverse-of-conventional-wisdom.php

The Adult Brain Makes New Neurons, and Effortful Learning Keeps Them Alive

You will need to DEMAND your doctor comes up with a protocol that will keep those new neurons alive. This is the minimum your doctor needs to do for you.
http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/23/5/311.abstract?

1. Tracey J. Shors

1. Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, and W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University

1. Tracey J. Shors, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, 152 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020 E-mail: shors@rutgers.edu

Abstract

The brain continues to produce new neurons throughout life. For instance, the hippocampus (a brain region necessary for select learning processes) produces thousands of new neurons each day. However, a significant number of them die and do so within just a few weeks of their birth. Laboratory animals that are trained to learn a new skill between one and two weeks after the new cells are generated retain most cells that would have otherwise died. The types of skills that keep new cells alive are not limited to those that depend on the hippocampus but rather include those that are effortful to learn, requiring more training trials or time spent training. Importantly, training alone is not sufficient to increase cell survival; animals that are trained but do not learn do not retain more cells than animals that are not trained. Therefore, learning increases the survival of newly generated cells in the hippocampus as long as the learning experience is new, effortful, and successful. Once rescued, the vast majority of these cells differentiate into neurons, thereby forming synapses and generating action potentials as they become incorporated into the existing architecture and functional circuitry of the adult brain.