This is a personal narrative of my stroke and recovery experience, and the medical, psychological, and social circumstances surrounding it.
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Triiodothyronine treatment in mice improves stroke outcome and reduces blood-brain barrier damage.
Eur Thyroid J
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F Langhauser, Neurology, University Hospital Essen Department of Neurology, Essen, Germany.
Objective Thyroid hormones (TH) control a variety of processes in the central nervous system and influence its response to different stimuli, such as ischemic stroke. Post-stroke administration of 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) has been reported to substantially improve outcomes, but the optimal dosage and time window remain elusive. Methods Stroke was induced in mice by transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) and T3 was administered at different doses and time points before and after stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploration of hospital room design on emotions, activity, and social connections after stroke: a qualitative study of patient experiences using virtual reality.
Disabil Rehabil
January 2025
Stroke Theme, Level 1, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia.
Unlabelled: Stroke patients are rarely asked about their responses to specific design attributes. Virtual reality (VR) offers a promising tool to explore how hospital environments are experienced after stroke.
Purpose: To gather perspectives and emotional responses regarding physical design attributes of hospital patient rooms after stroke.
Clinical Insights on My Acute Ischemic Stroke Caused by a Carotid Web.
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Department of Pediatrics, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, JPN.
Acute ischemic stroke, a medical emergency caused by reduced cerebral blood flow, results in brain cell damage. While commonly associated with older individuals, strokes can also occur in young and middle-aged adults, posing significant socio-economic and health challenges due to the long-term impact of the condition. This poses significant socio-economic and health challenges because stroke is a leading cause of disability and mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA scoping review on the body awareness rehabilitation after stroke: are we aware of what we are unaware?
Front Neurol
January 2025
IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo, Messina, Italy.
Body awareness (BA) is a complex multi-dimensional construct that refers to the subject's ability to consciously perceive and integrate sensory and proprioceptive information related to the position, movement, and balance of one's own body and body parts. Since it involves multiple brain regions and include different functional networks, it is very often affected by cerebrovascular damage such as stroke. Deficits in the ability to monitor our actions and predict their consequences or recognize our body parts and distinguish them from those of others may emerge after stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMusical neglect training for chronic persistent left hemispatial neglect with right hemiplegia post-stroke: a case report.
Front Rehabil Sci
January 2025
Department of Rehabilitation, Shiragikuen Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
A 69-year-old right-handed man, who initially suffered a stroke 8 years ago and experienced two recurrences since then, presented with right hemiplegia and left hemispatial neglect as a post-stroke syndrome in the chronic phase. This report demonstrates the use of active musical instrument playing with Musical Neglect Training (MNT®) to improve severe left-side neglect and activities of daily living (ADLs). In addition to physical and occupational therapy, individual MNT® was incorporated into the patient's rehabilitation plan to improve his hemispatial neglect.
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