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Contents of This Week: Saturday News ▶︎ April 2nd / 2016

• Definition: Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

Mixed transcortical aphasia is the least common of the three transcortical aphasias (behind transcortical motor aphasia and transcortical sensory aphasia, respectively). This type of aphasia can also be referred to as "Isolation Aphasia". This type of aphasia is a result of damage that isolates the language areas (Broca’s, Wernicke’s, and the arcuate fasiculus) from other brain regions. Broca’s, Wernicke’s, and the arcuate fasiculus are left intact; however, they are isolated from other brain regions. A longer definition comes from Wikipedia. 

SSTattler: Short definition from American Speech-Language Hearing Assoc. - Mixed Transcortical Aphasia - A combination of the two transcortical aphasias where both reception and expression are severely impaired but repetition remains intact. 

• Video: Mixed Transcortical Aphasia
• Mixed Transcortical Aphasia (Medical Condition)
• 4 Transcortical Motor Aphasias
• Transcortical Motor Aphasias
• Transcortical Sensory Aphasias

• Headline Blog: Mixed Transcortical Aphasia
• Mixed Transcortical Aphasia Without Anatomic Isolation of the Speech Area

• Weekly Columnists
• Musing: Dorsal Raphe Dopamine Neurons Represent the Experience of Social Isolation
• Sunday Stroke Survival: Give Yourself Permission
• Caregiver: Easter Egg Hunt (for dogs only)
• Jester: Old Folks
• TED Talks - Travis Kalanick: Uber's Plan to get More People Into Fewer Cars
• Laid-Back Admin: Stop Publish Stroke Survivors Tattler Apr/09/2016

• Eclectic Stuff on Wednesday
• Countdown to Hamburg
• Know someone who is ... Caregiver? Spouse? Stressed? That person is not alone
• Is it too Late for you to get Better - No.
• Astronauts & 1900's Women Get Surviving Stroke
• Freedom
• Rick Mercer Report: Robotics & Seasonal Brew
• XKCD: Estimating Time

• Future Topics in SSTattler

     Saturday News | Future Topic
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     Apr/09/2016   | Weekly Index from Jan/01/2011 to Apr/2016/02

Definition: Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

SSTattler: Short definition from American Speech-Language Hearing Assoc. - Mixed Transcortical Aphasia - A combination of the two transcortical aphasias where both reception and expression are severely impaired but repetition remains intact.

Mixed Transcortical Aphasia From Wikipedia, 

      the free encyclopedia

Areas affected in Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

Mixed transcortical aphasia is the least common of the three transcortical aphasias (behind transcortical motor aphasia and transcortical sensory aphasia, respectively). This type of aphasia can also be referred to as "Isolation Aphasia". This type of aphasia is a result of damage that isolates the language areas (Broca’s, Wernicke’s, and the arcuate fasiculus) from other brain regions. Broca’s, Wernicke’s, and the arcuate fasiculus are left intact; however, they are isolated from other brain regions.

A stroke is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States. Following a stroke, 40% of stroke patients are left with moderate functional impairment and 15% to 30% have a severe disability as a result of a stroke. A neurogenic cognitive-communicative disorder is one result of a stroke. Neuro- meaning related to nerves or the nervous system and -genic meaning resulting from or caused by. Aphasia is one type of a neurogenic cognitive-communicative disorder which presents with impaired comprehension and production of speech and language, usually caused by damage in the language-dominant, left hemisphere of the brain. Aphasia is any disorder of language that causes the patient to have the inability to communicate, whether it is through writing, speaking, or sign language.

Symptoms/Language Characteristics

Video: Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

Mixed Transcortical Aphasia (Medical Condition)

Published on May 13, 2015

Symptoms, risk factors and treatments of Mixed transcortical aphasia (Medical Condition)

Mixed transcortical aphasia is the least common of the three transcortical aphasias

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The medical information is not advice and should not be treated as such. The medical information is provided without any representations or warranties, express or implied. We do not warrant or represent that the medical information on this websiteis true, accurate, complete, current or non-misleading

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Contents of This Week: Saturday News ▶︎ March 26th / 2016

• Definition: Environmental Enrichment (Neural)

Environmental enrichment is the stimulation of the brain by its physical and social surroundings. Brains in richer, more stimulating environments have higher rates of synaptogenesis and more complex dendrite arbors, leading to increased brain activity. This effect takes place primarily during neurodevelopment, but also during adulthood to a lesser degree. With extra synapses there is also increased synapse activity, leading to an increased size and number of glial energy-support cells. Environmental enrichment also enhances capillary vasculation, providing the neurons and glial cells with extra energy. The neuropil (neurons, glial cells, capillaries, combined together) expands, thickening the cortex. Research on rodent brains suggests that environmental enrichment may also lead to an increased rate of neurogenesis. A longer definition comes from Wikipedia. 

• Video: Environmental Enrichment (Neural)
• How Does an Enriched Environment Affect the Brain?
• Melbourne Conversations: Your Brain - How it can Change, Develop and Improve
• Environmental Design at ArtCenter College of Design
• Environmental Enrichment Rescues Precocious Critical Period
• DIY: Easy Environmental Enrichment for Dogs
• Chimpanzees - Environmental Enrichment
• Environmental Enrichment

• Headline Blog: Environmental Enrichment (Neural)
• BDNF
• How to Change Your Own Mind, Literally
• Neurogenesis (#2)
• Brain Plasticity Will Blow Your Mind
• Enriched Environments Help Recovery After Stroke
• I Did WHAT?
• Mentors can be Friends to Man and his Best Friend
• [Guest Article] You are What you Choose to Be
• Resonance
• Could Your Brain Repair Itself? - Ralitsa Petrova

• Weekly Columnists
• Musing: Neurogenesis and Inflammation After Ischemic Stroke: What is Known and Where we go from Here
• Sunday Stroke Survival: What You See...
• Caregiver: Q & A
• Jester: The Old Rancher
• TED Talks - Meron Gribetz: A Glimpse of the Future Through an Augmented Reality Headset
• Laid-Back Admin: Stop SSTattler, Why?, and a Bit History

• Eclectic Stuff on Wednesday
• Strokversary Six
• 50 Shades of Possible Changes
• Swallowing, a Simple Thing You Take for Granted
• 9 Things I Must Do to Be Independent in Driving
• Managing Blood Pressure - Lowering Those Numbers
• Going Backwards
• Rick Mercer Report: Snow Plows & Daylight Saving Time
• XKCD: A Hypochondriac's Nightmare

• Future Topics in SSTattler

     Saturday News | Future Topic
     --------------+---------------------------------------------

     Apr/09/2016   | Weekly Index from Jan/01/2011 to Apr/2016/02
     Apr/02/2016   | Mixed Transcortical Aphasia

Definition: Environmental Enrichment (Neural)

Environmental Enrichment (Neural)
            From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SSTattler: See as well Jan/30/2016 Neuroregeneration.

A rodent is not stimulated by the environment in a wire cage,
and this affects its brain negatively,
particularly the complexity of its synaptic connections.

Environmental enrichment is the stimulation of the brain by its physical and social surroundings. Brains in richer, more stimulating environments have higher rates of synaptogenesis and more complex dendrite arbors, leading to increased brain activity. This effect takes place primarily during neurodevelopment, but also during adulthood to a lesser degree. With extra synapses there is also increased synapse activity, leading to an increased size and number of glial energy-support cells. Environmental enrichment also enhances capillary vasculation, providing the neurons and glial cells with extra energy. The neuropil (neurons, glial cells, capillaries, combined together) expands, thickening the cortex. Research on rodent brains suggests that environmental enrichment may also lead to an increased rate of neurogenesis.

Research on animals finds that environmental enrichment could aid the treatment and recovery of numerous brain-related dysfunctions, including Alzheimer's disease and those connected to aging, whereas a lack of stimulation might impair cognitive development. Moreover, this research also suggests that environmental enrichment leads to a greater level of cognitive reserve, the brain's resilience to the effects of conditions such as aging and dementia.

Video: Environmental Enrichment (Neural)

SSTattler: Environmental Enrichment for people - I found a few (exactly 3 YouTube so far) but human are difficult test in the laboratory...!?! Lots of Environmental Enrichment for mice, rats, chimpanzee, dogs, cats,... on YouTube.

How Does an Enriched Environment Affect the Brain?

Published on Jul 24, 2015

By Wendy Suzuki - Wendy received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley in the Department of Physiology/Anatomy and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from U.C. San Diego. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health before starting her faculty position in the Center for Neural Science at New York University in 1998.

Her research focuses on two main questions. First, she is interested in understanding how our brains allow us to learn and retain new long-term memories for facts and events, called “declarative” memory. Second, she is interested in understanding whether exercise can actually make you smarter. To address this latter question she examines how increased aerobic activity modulates the brain basis of learning memory and cognition.

Wendy is a recipient of numerous grants and awards for her research including the Lindsley Prize from the Society for Neuroscience, the prestigious Troland Research award from the National Academy of Sciences and NYU’s Golden Dozen Teaching award. She is also a popular lecturer at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In addition to research and teaching she is also passionate about supporting women in science.She has teamed with Gaby Jordan, President of the Education Division of the Handel Group to found an organization called “Empowering Women in Science” that is currently running leadership training seminars for students and faculty at universities around the country. Wendy has also been featured in Anne Leibovitz’s photographic essay book entitled “Women”

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Wendy Suzuki provides examples of how new brain cells form as the result of an enriched environment. She tells the story of her student year abroad in France and talks about how immersion in a different culture, or even new cuisine can affect the brain in a positive way.

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Contents of This Week: Saturday News ▶︎ March 19th / 2016

• Definition: Anomic Aphasia

Anomic aphasia (also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia) is a type of aphasia where an individual has consistent inability to produce words for things that they want to talk about (particularly nouns and verbs). Anomia is a deficit of expressive language. The most pervasive deficit in the aphasias is anomia. Some level of anomia is seen in all of the aphasias. A longer definition comes from Wikipedia. 

• Video: Anomic Aphasia
• Update: Sarah Scott teenage stroke, Broca's Aphasia. 
• Sarah Scott - 6 Years After a Stroke at 18 - Aphasia
• Young Person with Aphasia -- Sarah's story
• Sarah -- Anomic Aphasia
• Grace: Stroke Survivor With Broca's Aphasia, 5 Weeks After Stroke
• Broca's Aphasia
• Challenges in Anomic Aphasia
• Ken: Anomic Aphasia Progress
• Anomic Aphasia Caregiver Stories -- Stephanie
• Stephanie Testimonial -- Intensive Aphasia Treatment for Anomic Aphasia
• The Effect of Broca's aphasia on a Family
• Mom and I: Anomic Aphasia Take Two (Training)

• Headline Blog: Anomic Aphasia
• Decay Occurs in Speech Therapy: Aphasia
• Singing
• 50 Shades of Stroke – Aphasia
• I'm not Drunk, "Retarded", or Mentally Unstable
• Aphasia Basics
• Coming Soon: "After Words," a Film about Aphasia
• Amazing Grace
• Pictures Can Explain What OTs Are Doing

• Weekly Columnists
• Musing: Insulin Nasal Spray Shows Promise as Treatment for Adults With Dementia and Alzheimer'S
• Sunday Stroke Survival: Even More on Putting Words in my Mouth
• Jester: Ponderisms
• TED Talks - Caleb Harper: This Computer Will Grow Your Food in the Future
• Laid-Back Admin(1): Apple vs FBI and the Cybersecurity Implications
• Laid-Back Admin(2): Good Cartoons about Cybersecurity

• Eclectic Stuff on Wednesday
• How Brain Cancer Can Produce Psychopathology
• Locked-in at 17
• 50 Shades of 50!
• Can't Do's and Can Do's: A Stroke Survivor's Thoughts
• Rick Mercer Report: Juno, Trump, O'Leary
• XKCD: United States Map

• Future Topics in SSTattler

     Saturday News | Future Topic
     --------------+---------------------------------------------

     Apr/09/2016   | Weekly Index from Jan/01/2011 to Apr/2016/02
     Apr/02/2016   | Mixed Transcortical Aphasia
     Mar/26/2016   | Environmental Enrichment (Neural)
     Mar/19/2016   | Anomic Aphasia

Definition: Anomic Aphasia

Anomic Aphasia From Wikipedia,
      the free encyclopedia

Anomic aphasia - Diffusion tensor imaging image of the brain
showing the right and left arcuate fasciculus (Raf & Laf).
Also shown are the right and left superior longitudinal
fascicles (Rslf & Lslf), and tapetum of corpus callosum (Ta).
Damage to the Laf is known to cause anomic aphasia.

Anomic aphasia (also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia) is a type of aphasia where an individual has consistent inability to produce words for things that they want to talk about (particularly nouns and verbs). Anomia is a deficit of expressive language. The most pervasive deficit in the aphasias is anomia. Some level of anomia is seen in all of the aphasias.

Overview

Anomic aphasia (anomia) is a type of aphasia characterized by problems recalling words, names, and numbers. Speech is fluent and receptive language is not impaired in someone with anomic aphasia. Subjects often use circumlocutions (speaking in a roundabout way) in order to avoid a name they cannot recall or to express a certain word they cannot remember. Sometimes the subject can recall the name when given clues. Additionally, patients are able to speak with correct grammar; the main problem is finding the appropriate word to identify an object or person.

Sometimes subjects may know what to do with an object, but still not be able to give a name to the object. For example, if a subject is shown an orange and asked what it is called, the subject may be well aware that the object can be peeled and eaten, and may even be able to demonstrate this by actions or even verbal responses – however, they cannot recall that the object is called an "orange." Sometimes, when a person with this condition is multilingual, they might confuse the language they are speaking in trying to find the right word.

Types

Video: Anomic Aphasia

Update: Sarah Scott teenage stroke, Broca's Aphasia. 

Uploaded on Sep 7, 2010

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Second video showing Sarah's progress after having a stroke at the age of 18. She still has problems with numbers, reading and writing, as well as speech.


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Contents of This Week: Saturday News ▶︎ March 12th / 2016

• Definition: Speech Repetition

Children copy with their own mouths the words spoken by the mouths of those around them. This enables them to learn the pronunciation of words not already in their vocabulary. Speech repetition is the saying by one individual of the spoken vocalizations made by another individual. This requires the ability in the person making the copy to map the sensory input they hear from the other person's vocal pronunciation into a similar motor output with their own vocal tract. Such speech input output imitation often occurs independently of speech comprehension such as in speech shadowing when a person automatically says words heard in earphones, and the pathological condition of echolalia in which people reflexively repeat overheard words. This links to speech repetition of words being separate in the brain to speech perception. Speech repetition occurs in the dorsal speech processing stream while speech perception occurs in the ventral speech processing stream. Repetitions are often incorporated unawares by this route into spontaneous novel sentences immediately or after delay following storage in phonological memory. A longer definition comes from Wikipedia. 

• Video: Speech Repetition
• Speech-Language Therapy: Working with a Patient with Fluent Aphasia
• Fluent Aphasia (Wernicke's Aphasia)
• Enabling Fluent Speech In Non-Fluent Aphasia
• Stroke Victim Wakes Speaking Fluent Welsh
• Rachael Getting the Word out About Living With Aphasia
• Amazing Speech Recovery - Stroke Family's Proven Methods Works!
• Aphasia Speech Therapy (Patient-Michelle, 17 yrs old)
• Apraxia Of Speech Repetition Struggle
• Improving Speech for Stroke Patients
• Speech After Stroke - Treating Aphasia
• Stroke: Causes and Effects on Speech and Language

• Headline Blog: Speech Repetition
• 50 Shades of Stroke – Aphasia
• Mouthing Off
• Speech Therapy Is Done, aka I Graduated from Talking School
• Finishing Sentences
• Left vs. Right
• Language Skills and Aphasia Recovery - Connected?
• Demanding Repetition
• Dysarthria is More Than a Slip of the Tongue
• Aphasia pt.1
• Treating Sleep Problems Following Traumatic Brain Injury
• Socially Speaking, Conversational Courtesy, and Aphasia Speech Therapy
• Progress to Report

• Weekly Columnists
• Musing: Stroke Patients’ Speech Loss Linked to Loss of Brain Interconnections
• Sunday Stroke Survival: Argh! Said The Pirate!
• Caregiver: Fun -- Then Meltdown
• Jester: Marriage Humour
• TED Talks - Russ Altman: What Really Happens when You Mix Medications?

• Eclectic Stuff on Wednesday
• If Nothing Else, This Story Could be a Stroke Prevention Reminder
• Conclusions from Multiple Studies Can Be Flawed
• Constraint-Induced Therapy
• Rick Mercer Report: Dodgeball & Marijuana
• Laid-Back Admin: No Post This Week
• XKCD: Robotic Garage

• Future Topics in SSTattler

     Saturday News | Future Topic
     --------------+---------------------------------------------

     Apr/02/2016   | Mixed Transcortical Aphasia
     Mar/26/2016   | Environmental Enrichment (Neural)
     Mar/19/2016   | Anomic Aphasia
     Mar/12/2016   | Speech Repetition

Definition: Speech Repetition

Speech Repetition From Wikipedia,
      the free encyclopedia

SSTattler: I took two courses to learn Understanding Lip Reading because my lips was not synchronized with my brain e.g. my wife said "Is it snowing in our living room?" or some other utterance and I know exactly what is about, "It's never snow in our living room", but the words I'll repeat saying again and again - "Yes" - it doesn't make much sense. My wife helped me as well with Speech Shadowing and (correctly) Speech Repetition. In a few months later, I have, basically, a kind of a grammar like "English" but the words are sometimes wrong (i.e. Receptive Aphasia (or Wernicke or Fluent or..)). Today, my grammar is only OK (but not up to my speech before my stroke). When I am tired, the wrong words appear... Ah well...

Children copy with their own mouths the words spoken by the mouths of those around them. This enables them to learn the pronunciation of words not already in their vocabulary.

Speech repetition is the saying by one individual of the spoken vocalizations made by another individual. This requires the ability in the person making the copy to map the sensory input they hear from the other person's vocal pronunciation into a similar motor output with their own vocal tract.

Such speech input output imitation often occurs independently of speech comprehension such as in speech shadowing when a person automatically says words heard in earphones, and the pathological condition of echolalia in which people reflexively repeat overheard words. This links to speech repetition of words being separate in the brain to speech perception. Speech repetition occurs in the dorsal speech processing stream while speech perception occurs in the ventral speech processing stream. Repetitions are often incorporated unawares by this route into spontaneous novel sentences immediately or after delay following storage in phonological memory.

Video: Speech Repetition

Speech-Language Therapy:
      Working with a Patient with Fluent Aphasia

Published on Nov 26, 2013

Burke Rehabilitation Center's Speech-Language Pathology Department offers outpatient evaluation and treatment services to Individuals with communication impairments, cognitive-communication, swallowing, or voice problems caused by stroke, traumatic brain injury, or other forms of neurological conditions or trauma.

For more information, please call (914) 597-2288.

Burke Rehabilitation Center is located in White Plains, NY


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Contents of This Week: Saturday News ▶︎ March 5th / 2016

• Definition: Accessible Housing

Accessible housing refers to the construction or modification (such as through renovation or home modification) of housing to enable independent living for persons with disabilities. Accessibility is achieved through architectural design, but also by integrating accessibility features such as modified furniture, shelves and cupboards, or even electronic devices in the home. A longer definition comes from Wikipedia. 

• Video: Accessible Housing
• Accessible Housing
• Accessible Home Renovation
• Ramp
• How to Build A Home Access Ramp - Part One
• How to Build A Home Access Ramp - Part Two
• How to Build A Home Access Ramp - Part Three
• How to Build A Home Access Ramp - Part Four
• Kitchen
• Fair Housing Means Universal Design: With an Emphasis on Kitchens
• Kitchen Accessibility
• More Kitchen Accessibility Ideas
• Bathroom
• Bathroom
• How To Install A Wall Mount Bathroom Sink
• How to Make a Handicap Accessible Shower
• Hallways & Laundry Room & Living Room & Bathroom
• Wheelchair Accessible Home
• Stairways
• Harmar Pinnacle Premium Stairway Lift

• Headline Blog: Accessible Housing
• Practice Walking Without My Brace
• The Handicapped in America: The ADA Has Your Back
• Handicapped Bathrooms Are Badly Designed
• One Wedding and a Funeral

• Weekly Columnists
• Musing: What Does a Scientist Think of "Right Brain/Left Brain" Tests?
• Sunday Stroke Survival: Making the Inacessible Accessible
• Jester: Tech Support
• TED Talks - Mary Bassett: Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice

• Eclectic Stuff on Wednesday
• Who'd Have Thought...?
• Good Hardware - Keeping Things Together for Years (One Hopes)
• A New Hand Evaluation for Stroke Survivors
• Pseudobulbar Affect
• Rick Mercer Report: Caviar & Future
• Laid-Back Admin: No Post This Week
• XKCD: Stargazing

• Future Topics in SSTattler

     Saturday News | Future Topic
     --------------+---------------------------------------------

     Apr/02/2016   | Mixed Transcortical Aphasia
     Mar/26/2016   | Environmental Enrichment (Neural)
     Mar/19/2016   | Anomic Aphasia
     Mar/12/2016   | Speech Repetition

Definition: Accessible Housing

Accessible Housing From Wikipedia,
      the free encyclopedia

Accessible housing refers to the construction or modification (such as through renovation or home modification) of housing to enable independent living for persons with disabilities. Accessibility is achieved through architectural design, but also by integrating accessibility features such as modified furniture, shelves and cupboards, or even electronic devices in the home.

Please click-it to be larger for the text+image... 

In Canada, FlexhousingTM is a concept that encourages homeowners to make renovations that modify their house over time to meet changing accessibility needs. The concept supports the goals of enabling "homeowners to occupy a dwelling for longer periods of time, perhaps over their entire lifetimes, while adapting to changing circumstances and meeting a wide range of needs"; Universal Housing in the United States and Lifetime Homes in the United Kingdom are similar concepts.

Video: Accessible Housing

SSTattler: Some of the options for you - many other options possible...

Contents:

• Accessible Housing 
• Ramp 
• Kitchen 
• Bathroom 
• Hallways & Laundry Room & Living Room & Bathroom 
• Stairways

Accessible Housing

Accessible Home Renovation

Published on Oct 1, 2012

T12 para Mark Schmitt, renovates his 1000 sq. foot cabin for accessibility. Loaded with great tips like, lower windows and counters, roll under kitchen sink, roll-in pantry, improved entries and much more.

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Contents of This Week: Saturday News ▶︎ February 27th / 2016

• Definition: Webcomics

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or in books. Webcomics can be compared to self-published print comics in that almost anyone can create their own webcomic and publish it. Readership levels vary widely; many are read only by the creator's immediate friends and family, while some of the largest claim audiences well over one million readers. Webcomics range from traditional comic strips and graphic novels to avant garde comics, and cover many genres, styles and subjects. Only a select few are financially successful. A longer definition comes from Wikipedia. 

• Video: Webcomics
• Author(s)
• Webcomic Tips with Scott Johnson of ExtraLife
• HOW TO Start a Webcomic! -The Comic Paige
• You Should Make a Webcomic
• XKCD: Time
• Randall Munroe (XKCD): Comics That ask "What If?"
• Comics, Authors, Make It and Other Stuff
• Every Major's Terrible XKCD Sing-a-Long
• R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties - XOXO Festival (2012)
• How To Go To Space (with XKCD!)
• Making A Softer World
• Sludgy Freelance
• No Girls Allowed
• Interview - The Book of Biff

• Headline Blog: Webcomics
• [XKCD] Comic Compilation #101 - 150
• Sweet Peas

• Weekly Columnists
• Musing: Medical Research - Stroke Rehab/Research Version
• Sunday Stroke Survival: Statements That Make Me Angry
• Caregiver: Visitors
• Jester: Pass the Pepper Please
• TED Talks - Scott McCloud: The Visual Magic of Comics

• Eclectic Stuff on Wednesday
• Disability Etiquette: Not Us. This Is For You, "Normals"!
• Off the Road
• Enriched Environments Help Recovery After Stroke
• Food for Thought
• Everything's Changing
• Nails Do Not Stop Growing After a Stroke
• Stupid Question: But Isn’t There Enough Green to go Around?
• Will a Stroke Patient Need a Mortgage Next?
• Apple vs the FBI - Who Wins?
• Rick Mercer Report: Beach Volleyball & Face to Face
• Laid-Back Admin: No Post This Week
• XKCD: Degrees

• Future Topics in SSTattler

     Saturday News | Future Topic
     --------------+---------------------------------------------

     Mar/26/2016   | Environmental Enrichment (Neural)
     Mar/19/2016   | Anomic Aphasia
     Mar/12/2016   | Speech Repetition
     Mar/05/2016   | Accessible Housing

Definition: Webcomics

Webcomic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SSTattler: Today and in the future, the topic is online: Comics a.k.a. Webcomics !!

See as well:

• Comics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Underground Comix From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Alternative Comics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Many webcomics like Diesel Sweeties
use non-traditional art styles.

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or in books.

Webcomics can be compared to self-published print comics in that almost anyone can create their own webcomic and publish it. Readership levels vary widely; many are read only by the creator's immediate friends and family, while some of the largest claim audiences well over one million readers. Webcomics range from traditional comic strips and graphic novels to avant garde comics, and cover many genres, styles and subjects. Only a select few are financially successful.

Medium

Video: Webcomics

Contents: 

• Author(s)
• Comics, Authors, Make It and Other Stuff

1. Author(s)

Webcomic Tips with Scott Johnson of ExtraLife

Uploaded on Apr 1, 2008

Following up from our interview with Stan Lee, the godfather of comics, we spoke to Scott Johnson of ExtraLife, a popular webcomic. Scott talks with Veronica about how to start, write, and publish a webcomic, and drops some useful tips that we're sure you'll find interesting.

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Contents of This Week: Saturday News ▶︎ February 20th / 2016

• Definition: Spasticity

Spasticity (from Greek spasmos-, meaning "drawing, pulling") is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon reflex activity and hypertonia. It is also colloquially referred to as an unusual "tightness", stiffness, or "pull" of muscles. Clinically, spasticity results from the loss of inhibition of motor neurons, causing excessive muscle contraction. This ultimately leads to hyperreflexia, an exaggerated deep tendon reflex. Spasticity is often treated with the drug baclofen, which acts as an agonist at GABA receptors, which are inhibitory. A longer definition comes from Wikipedia. 

• Video: Spasticity
• Spasticity: Loosen Up
• Stroke and Spasticity: The Recovery Process
• How a Baclofen Pump Works
• Treatment for Severe Spasticity from Stroke
• Physical Therapy for Spasticity
• UPDATE Spasticity-Toomer, MD
• Fighting Spasticity After Stroke
• Teaching - Spasticity - Causes of Limitation & Opening Hand
• Teaching - Opening a Spastic Hand
• Botox for Post-Stroke Spasticity

• Headline Blog: Spasticity
• Rebirth?
• Such a Spaz
• Choosing to Work Towards Happiness
• 4 Treatment Options for Spasticity
• Spasticity
• Are Resting Hand Splints a Waste of Money?
• Brain Stimulation Might be Viable Post-stroke
• I'm a Spaz
• An Arm Recovery Stroke Advance? @Fightingstrokes
• After Stroke, Spasticity is a Bad Thing—but Things Could be Worse.

• Weekly Columnists
• Musing: What's the Reason for Stroke Spasticity Drugs?
• Sunday Stroke Survival: Spasticity Revisited
• Caregiver: Goodbye, Bobmobile
• Jester: Whatever Happened To...
• TED Talks - Jocelyne Bloch: The Brain May be Able to Repair Itself -- With Help

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Definition: Spasticity

Spasticity From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SSTattler: Please look at original  Saturdays News - Spasticity and Stroke June 30th, 2012. Some of YouTubes is new. Three most difficultly and suffering stroke are 1) paralysis 2) spasticity and 3) fatigue. 

Spasticity - stiffness in the arms, fingers or legs.

Spasticity (from Greek spasmos-, meaning "drawing, pulling") is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon reflex activity and hypertonia. It is also colloquially referred to as an unusual "tightness", stiffness, or "pull" of muscles.

Clinically, spasticity results from the loss of inhibition of motor neurons, causing excessive muscle contraction. This ultimately leads to hyperreflexia, an exaggerated deep tendon reflex. Spasticity is often treated with the drug baclofen, which acts as an agonist at GABA receptors, which are inhibitory.

Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common form of cerebral palsy, which is group of permanent movement problems that do not get worse over time. GABA's inhibitory actions contribute to baclofen's efficacy as an anti-spasticity agent.

Cause

Spasticity mostly occurs in disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) affecting the upper motor neurons in the form of a lesion, such as spastic diplegia, or upper motor neuron syndrome, and can also be present in various types of multiple sclerosis, where it occurs as a symptom of the progressively-worsening attacks on myelin sheaths and is thus unrelated to the types of spasticity present in neuromuscular cerebral palsy rooted spasticity disorders.