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, November 13, 2014

The Long-Term Consequences of Marijuana Use For The Brain

With the benefits of this and its use for rehabilitation, what exactly is your doctor doing to provide you with some?  Or is this a prohibition just because it is illegal in some states? Will your doctor help you recover? Or just do nothing?
My 13 reasons to use it post-stroke.


http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/11/the-long-term-consequences-of-marijuana-use-on-the-brain.php
Regular marijuana users have increased connectivity in their brains, despite having some gray matter loss in areas related to addiction, a new study finds.


The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to use multiple brain scanning techniques to examine both the structure and function of the brain.


Dr. Sina Aslan, one of the study’s authors, explained:


“What’s unique about this work is that it combines three different MRI techniques to evaluate different brain characteristics.
The results suggest increases in connectivity, both structural and functional that may be compensating for gray matter losses.
Eventually, however, the structural connectivity or ‘wiring’ of the brain starts degrading with prolonged marijuana use.”


The study involved 48 adult marijuana users who used the drug, on average, three times a day (Filbey et al., 2014).


They were compared to 62 matched non-users of marijuana.


The researchers found that the pattern of changes in both connectivity and structure of the brain depended on when and how often the drug was used.


Increases in connectivity were greatest when people began to use the drug and, the more they used it, the greater those increases.

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