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balance, is what makes exercise reduce ADD/ADHD posted by Alexander Nestoiter on 24 May 2012 at 6:26 am If you strip exercise to its basics, you get improved oxygenation, better blood flow, activity of muscles, joints, tendons, bones. But the number one factor is balance. Remove balance you start calling chess a sport. Balance is VERY task-specific. Having good balance in one sport does not make you an expert in all sports. You have to learn each one separately. The organ of balance sits in the inner ear, along...
The National Stroke Association (http://www.stroke.org) invited me to write my own stroke story for their "Faces of Stoke" publication. I was happy that they published it, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Read the story at this link or read it here... After my massive hemorrhagic stroke, life is less a rehabilitation than it is a healing, less a healing than an exploration of meaning, and perhaps less an exploration of meaning than a visceral explosion of joy. Close friends, however, can clearly assure you that my supposed...
Image: John Hershey In Brief Most scientists agree that sleep has significant benefits for learning and memory. Conventional wisdom holds that recently formed memories are replayed during sleep and in the process become more sharply etched in the brain. Emerging evidence suggests that sleep also serves as a reset button, loosening neural connections throughout the brain to put this organ back in a state in which learning can...
We may be able to get by on as little as six hours of sleep a night, but closer to eight hours is better--and may optimize learning and memory performance. In Brief As we snooze, our brain is busily processing the information we have learned during the day. Sleep makes memories stronger, and it even appears to weed out irrelevant details and background information so that only the important pieces remain. Our brain also works during slumber to find hidden relations among memories and to solve problems...
Nutrition and Stroke Prevention Marc Fisher, MD; Kennedy Lees, MD, Section Editors:; J. David Spence, MD, FRCPC From the Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada. Correspondence to Dr David Spence, Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre, Robarts Research Institute, 1400 Western Rd, London, Ontario, Canada N6G 2V2. E-mail dspence{at}robarts.ca Next Section Abstract Nutrition is much...
April 5, 2011 A device designed to treat people with resistant hypertension helped lower blood pressure by 33 points, a substantial drop that would otherwise require patients to take an additional three or four drugs, on top of this subgroup's usual regimen of up to five drugs, to control their difficult-to-treat condition. The device, called the Rheos System, was tested in a pivotal Phase III study presented today as a late-breaking clinical trial at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific...
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September 6, 2008, about 1:50am, I had a massive hemorrhagic stroke at home. Like millions of other stroke "survivors", my life has changed irreversibly.
I am not a physician or rehabilitation therapist or other medical professional, though I have greatly benefited from kindness of some very skilled ones.
A number of years ago, I did PhD work -- but no dissertation, so no PhD -- in Philosophy (Logic and Linguistic Analysis) at UCSD, with a strong mathematical background. At age five I started judo, and subsequently studied Aikido and Tang Soo Do, and other martial arts. I am also a musician -- singer and instrumentalist (primarily a guitarist and harmonica player). Over the years (I was born in 1948), I have created music & lyrics, poetry, and other writings.
I summarize these elements of my life because everything in me, and what I have learned from my rehabilitation, conversations with patients and medical professionals, and extensive reading, tells me that: (1) the stroke I have had has been THE single most transformative event in my life; and (2) this transformation has been an overwhelmingly positive experience for me even in the midst of dramatic neurophysiological demands.
Stroke Revelations is intended to provide personal reflections about what is possible to those of us who have entered the "event" of a stroke and came out alive. This blog is dedicated to all people whose consciousness has been overwhelmed, from whatever avalanche of neurophysiological reasons, and did not make it to the "other side".
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease." ~Buddha
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