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 12, 2015

Brain Scans May Help Predict Recovery From Coma

Would this be helpful in diagnosing locked-in patients before your doctor tells you it is hopeless to recover? You are going to have to hope your doctor and hospital have a correct protocol for this even though they have no protocols for any other stroke rehabilitation items. Good luck with that.
http://dgnews.docguide.com/brain-scans-may-help-predict-recovery-coma?
Brain scans of people in a coma may help predict who will regain consciousness, according to a study published in the November 11, 2015, online issue of the journal Neurology.
The study looked at connections between areas of the brain that play a role in regulating consciousness. For the study, 27 people in a coma with severe brain injuries were compared with 14 healthy people of the same age. All of the participants had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans taken of their brains.
For those in a coma, the scans were conducted after any sedative drugs were out of their systems. Three months after their injuries, 4 of the people with coma had recovered consciousness. The others remained in a minimally conscious state or a vegetative state at 3 months.
All of the comatose people had significant disruption in the connections between brain areas and the posterior cingulate cortex. These changes were the same whether the brain injury was due to trauma or to lack of oxygen, such as from cardiac arrest.
The researchers found that the coordination of activity between the posterior cingulate cortex and the medial prefrontal cortex was significantly different between those who went on to recover from the coma and those who remained in a minimally conscious state or a vegetative state. The coordination between the 2 brain areas was the same for the healthy participants and those who regained consciousness.
Stein Silva, MD, French National Research Institute, INSERM U825, Toulouse, France, said that more research is needed before these results can be used to guide decisions about people in comas.
“We need to do more studies with larger numbers of patients to substantiate these results, but the findings are promising,” said Dr. Silva. “We could be able to predict better who is more likely to recover from a coma and eventually develop innovative networks-based personalised treatments for people with brain injuries.”
SOURCE: American Academy of Neurology

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