Linux, Neuroplasticity and Stroke Recovery

[Glamtrains]

I am one of the 93 LM users in South Africa, out of a population of some 56 million plus another five or ten million mostly illegal immigrants. 0.000001661%

Read how learning Linux had helped a patient recover from multiple CVA (stroke) over several years and he is still recovering, making reasonable progress. Linux helped the brain to lay down new paths. The basal ganglia cluster in the brain is, in fact, the brain's own BIOS system. Some readers may find this interesting, especially those with an interest in neuropsychology. https://proverbsofpete.blogspot.com/202 ... elped.html

[kc1di]

Welcome to Linux Mint Forums, thanks for the link.

[Glamtrains]

Thanks

[karlchen]

Read how learning Linux had helped a patient recover from multiple CVA (stroke) over several years

Interesting. I had never looked at Linux from a medical perspective.

[Glamtrains]

Perhaps the medical research gurus can undertake studies in this field.

[Portreve]

I am one of the 93 LM users in South Africa, out of a population of some 56 million plus another five or ten million mostly illegal immigrants. 0.000001661%

Read how learning Linux had helped a patient recover from multiple CVA (stroke) over several years and he is still recovering, making reasonable progress. Linux helped the brain to lay down new paths. The basal ganglia cluster in the brain is, in fact, the brain's own BIOS system. Some readers may find this interesting, especially those with an interest in neuropsychology. https://proverbsofpete.blogspot.com/202 ... elped.html

Welcome on board the crazy train!

Glad you're with us.

The comments you made about neuroplasticity and such track with what a (now late) friend of mine did in getting into computers in the first place, back in the 1980s. He'd had a severe head trauma accident (someone on a jetski had slammed into him while he was swimming on a beach) and while there were many, many components to his recovery, one of them had been to pursue something completely divergent from anything with which he had prior experience: owning a computer. In his case, he got a Macintosh Plus (like I had) and then slowly learned everything he could, and kept upgrading over the years. (He passed away in 2012 due to other medical complications; he was in his 90s at the time.)

[Moonstone Man]

Linux helped the brain to lay down new paths. The basal ganglia cluster in the brain is, in fact, the brain's own BIOS system.

I'm banking on Linux to stave off Alzheimer's, assuming one or more of the 14 other age-related diseases I have don't get me first. I've always maintained that the brain doesn't wear out, it rusts out.

[all41]

@Glamtrains--Hi. Yes an interesting thread.

Elon Musk is also doing some interesting neuro research.

I'm banking on Linux to stave off Alzheimer's,

--perhaps so----it saved me from suffocation
while sitting in front of windows

[DAMIEN1307]

I've always maintained that the brain doesn't wear out, it rusts out.

Agreed...Sounds like the old adage, What you don't use, you lose.

use it or lose it...lol...DAMIEN

[Glamtrains]

I am one of the 93 LM users in South Africa, out of a population of some 56 million plus another five or ten million mostly illegal immigrants. 0.000001661%

Read how learning Linux had helped a patient recover from multiple CVA (stroke) over several years and he is still recovering, making reasonable progress. Linux helped the brain to lay down new paths. The basal ganglia cluster in the brain is, in fact, the brain's own BIOS system. Some readers may find this interesting, especially those with an interest in neuropsychology. https://proverbsofpete.blogspot.com/202 ... elped.html

Welcome on board the crazy train!

Glad you're with us.

The comments you made about neuroplasticity and such track with what a (now late) friend of mine did in getting into computers in the first place, back in the 1980s. He'd had a severe head trauma accident (someone on a jetski had slammed into him while he was swimming on a beach) and while there were many, many components to his recovery, one of them had been to pursue something completely divergent from anything with which he had prior experience: owning a computer. In his case, he got a Macintosh Plus (like I had) and then slowly learned everything he could, and kept upgrading over the years. (He passed away in 2012 due to other medical complications; he was in his 90s at the time.)

Sorry to learn about your friend's death.

We used to sell a software app decades ago, that was being used to help people recover from brain surgery, or physical trauma after accidents, etc., so there are applications of this idea, yet I totally forgot that after stroke and stumbled upon theis healing method merely by chance all by myself. In fact, I forgot all about Read-Com until you mentioned your friend's jetski accident. Read-Com was developed by a team of medical experts, led by Emma van Haemert, assisted by psichiatrist, psychologists, a neorologist, all sorts of therapists and programmers, if I remember correctly, in Pretoria, South Africa.

[deepakdeshp]

Welcome to Linux Mint Forums,
I need to remember that there is life after computer.

[Glamtrains]

Thanks for your welcoming note.

When I live less than 300 metres from the Atlantic sea shore yet cannot go there to see it, I think back to the many times I saw MS-DOS crash, or CP/M-80 freeze, Windows BSOd's ad nauseum, instead of having gone out to enjoy my former health - and my life - while I still could. That is something every young geek should be reading here; life is to be lived and computers may be great but they're not worth your lives.