Deans' stroke musings: Mind and brain in delay of gratification

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.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Mind and brain in delay of gratification

We have to delay our gratification possibly for decades. What is your doctor doing to prepare you for that?
http://psycnet.apa.org/books/14322/007

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Mind and brain in delay of gratification.

Zayas, Vivian; Mischel, Walter; Pandey, Gayathri

Reyna, Valerie F. (Ed); Zayas, Vivian (Ed), (2014). The neuroscience of risky decision making. Bronfenbrenner series on the ecology of human development., (pp. 145-176). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, xviii, 222 pp. doi: 10.1037/14322-007

Abstract

A central focus of psychological and behavioral sciences is to identify the factors that enable and hinder delay of gratification. In this chapter, we review findings from the original preschool delay of gratification work that identify key attentional–cognitive control strategies that enable (vs. hinder) delay. We also describe recent behavioral and neuroscientific findings that investigate the link between preschool delay of gratification abilities and adult mechanisms of cognitive control. This work suggests that dispositional abilities to delay gratification are subserved by individual differences in the functioning of prefrontal cortical and limbic neural systems. We end by discussing the implications of this work for theory and future research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)