Rewire Your Brain Stroke

Rewire your brain stroke is a subject I've talked about many times.

Technics I used to recover my speech, reading and using my entire left side is outlined in my book, "I had a Stroke".

Here is an article on rewiring your brain stroke after a brain attack or growing neurons, confirming what I figured out on my own from my hospital bed back in 2001.

Can the Brain Grow New Neurons?

Premium Health News Service

January 6, 2010

Harvard Health Letters

Q. A recent Harvard Health Letter urged us seniors to stay mentally active because that causes the growth of new neurons (brain cells). When my husband had a stroke 40 years ago, the doctors told me that the brain cannot make new cells in later life. What's the truth?

A. If I had been your husband's doctor 40 years ago, I would have told you the same thing, because that's what I was taught and what everyone believed: Once a stroke kills a bunch of neurons, they can never be replaced.

However, research has shown that pessimistic judgment is just plain wrong -- for many animals and almost surely for humans, too.

One of the first studies involved songbirds. During mating season, songbirds sing to mark off their territory and to attract a mate. Scientists found that during that time, the part of the birds' brains that controls singing actually grows in size because new neurons have formed.

But when it comes to thinking and memory, what's probably more important than the formation of new neurons is the formation of new connections between neurons. These connections, called synapses, make thinking possible. You could form millions of new neurons, but if they couldn't make connections to one another, they wouldn't help you think. By the same token, if you can make old neurons sprout new connections to other old neurons, you can improve thinking.

So the brain has much more regenerative potential than I -- and your husband's doctor -- were taught in medical school. That's great news, but the regeneration doesn't happen on its own. Keeping our brains active is one way to make it happen. -- Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., Editor in Chief, Harvard Health Letter

So this is what I mean when I say "rewire your brain stroke".


It's like a manual for Rewiring Your Brain.

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