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, February 10, 2018

Neuroscience Says This Kind of Lighting Can Reduce Brainpower by 30 Percent

Does your doctor and stroke hospital have enough brains to turn up the lighting in your hospital and rehabiltation areas? Or will this never get implemented because your hospital has no one to read and implement research into practice? Why the fuck are you paying your stroke doctor and hospital anything at all for rehab?
https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/neuroscience-says-this-kind-of-lighting-can-reduce-brainpower-by-30-percent.html
Think about the environment in which you're reading this.
Specifically, how's the lighting?
I ask because a new laboratory study out of Michigan State University suggests that working in dim lighting can "change the brain's structure and hurt one's ability to remember and learn," according to a university press release.
The study tracked the brains of Nile grass rats in a lab experiment. Half the animals were kept in an environment where the lights were dim, simulating what humans might encounter in typical indoor lighting like an office, or outside on a cloudy midwinter day.
The other half were kept in an environment with much brighter lighting--think of a sunny day outside.
Results: The animals that were kept in dimmer light "lost about 30 percent of capacity in the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, and performed poorly on a spatial task they had trained on previously."
"This is similar to when people can't find their way back to their cars in a busy parking lot after spending a few hours in a shopping mall or movie theater," said Antonio Nunez, a psychology professor and co-author of the study, which was published in the journal Hippocampus.
Obviously, this is a classic "lab rat" study. The researchers said they chose Nile grass rats because they share an important attribute with humans: They're diurnal, meaning they naturally wake and work during the day and sleep at night.
Also, of course, the scientists could control the amount of light that they were exposed to over a significant period of time. Try doing that with humans.
Nevertheless, the results comported with expectations. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the researchers believe that reduced lighting led to a significant reduction in a brain substance called  "brain derived neurotrophic factor." 
Reducing that substance makes it more difficult for neurons to connect with one another in the brain. 

"Since there are fewer connections being made, this results in diminished learning and memory performance that is dependent upon the hippocampus," explained Joel Soler, a doctoral graduate student who was the study's lead author.
"In other words," Soler continued, "dim lights are producing dimwits."
So, what to do with this information?
The study authors' immediate thought is about how we could possibly improve cognitive performance in elderly people, or those with glaucoma or other eye and brain conditions, by increasing their light exposure.
But you might well be thinking exactly what I was when I first heard about this study: Should my office be brighter?
So many of us work in open offices now, with lighting limited to fluorescent bulbs in the ceiling and, if you're lucky enough--a seat by a window. Is that factor alone enough to negatively impact our performance?
Is that why our company's CEO can ask me about an email I sent two days ago -- and leave me feeling like an idiot when I can't remember it at all for a minute?
It sounds quite possible, and I wonder how many of us are experiencing the same thing. Are we all in the same dimly lit boat, so to speak?
Let us know in the comments what you think. I'd also like to know informally--where are people reading this, and is the lighting around you bright enough to make you feel like you'd be doing your best work?

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