Stroke

Category: Illness or disabilities

Type

Involuntary

Introduction and description

A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain.  Strokes can be classified into two major categories: ischemic and hemorrhagic. 

• Ischemic strokes are those that are caused by interruption of the blood supply caused by
  • Local Thrombosis  -obstruction of a blood vessel by a blood clot forming locally
  • Embolism  - obstruction due to an embolus from elsewhere in the body.  An embolus is a travelling particle in the arterial bloodstream originating from elsewhere. It can be a thrombus, but it can also be fat, air, cancer cells or clumps of bacteria
  • Systemic hypoperfusion  - Systemic hypoperfusion is the reduction of blood flow to all parts of the body. It is most commonly due to cardiac arrest or arrhythmias, from reduced cardiac output as a result of myocardial infarction, from pulmonary embolism, pericardial effusion, or bleeding. It can also result from shock. Hypoxemia (low blood oxygen content) may precipitate the hypoperfusion.
  • Venous thrombosis
• Hemorrhagic strokes are the ones which result from rupture of a blood vessel or an abnormal vascular structure.

About 87% of strokes are caused by ischemia, and the remainder by hemorrhage.

As a result, the affected area of the brain is unable to function. 

Symptoms

Stroke symptoms typically start suddenly, over seconds to minutes. The symptoms depend on the area of the brain affected. The more extensive the area of brain affected, the more functions that are likely to be lost. Loss of consciousness, headache, and vomiting usually occurs more often in hemorrhagic stroke than in thrombosis because of the increased intracranial pressure from the leaking blood compressing the brain.

A silent stroke is a stroke that does not have any outward symptoms, and the patient is typically unaware they have suffered a stroke. Despite not causing identifiable symptoms, a silent stroke still causes damage to the brain, and places the patient at increased risk for both transient ischemic attack and major stroke in the future. Conversely, those who have suffered a major stroke are at risk of having silent strokes.

Silent strokes typically cause lesions which are detected via the use of neuroimaging such as MRI. Silent strokes are estimated to occur at five times the rate of symptomatic stroke.

A stroke is a medical emergency and can cause permanent neurological damage, complications, and death. It is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and Europe and the second leading cause of death worldwide.

Causes

The tide is turning on opinion of what causes strokes.  At one time medical people told us with some authority that it was all caused by cholesterol.  Then they added smoking for good measure.  But the former theory at least has lost most of its support from thinking medical people, as has the theory that somehow lowering cholesterol helps you.  Cholesterol is a symptom not a cause.  Smoke is a toxin, and there is plenty of evidence that toxins are one cause - but not the only cause. 

The original research on which cholesterol was outlawed, made a very tenuous link between the existence of high cholesterol and heart disease. 

But this is like saying you have noticed that every time a train is late in the station the stationmaster comes out, so it is important you shoot the station master because he is obviously the cause of the late train.  The whole logic on which cholesterol has obtained a bad name was flawed.

So what are the real causes?

Causes can be long term accumulation of blood clots and emboli or short term creation of them via surgery or trauma. 

What then may dislodge them is shock.  In effect, it occasionally takes some traumatic event to send the blood racing round the arteries and veins sweeping off all the detritus it has accumulated and sending this detritus to either your brain or your heart.  If it goes to your heart you have a cardiac arrest, if it goes to your brain you have a stroke.

Elizabeth David, the cookery writer had a stroke, probably brought on by the ending of her love affair with Peter Higgins.  Her book French Provincial Cooking (1960) was dedicated to "P.H, with love". The affair lasted throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s.  Higgins, left Elizabeth for a younger woman, and the shock resulted in a cerebral haemorrhage. She recovered, but her sense of taste was temporarily affected, and her confidence was badly shaken.

Occasionally hormonal disruptions or pregnancy can also result in a stroke as they both cause disruptions to normal blood circulation. 

Patricia Neal married Roald Dahl in 1953, they had five children.  In the early 1960s, the couple suffered through grievous injury to one child in 1960,  and the death of another in 1962. While pregnant in 1965, Neal suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms, and was in a coma for three weeks. Dahl directed her rehabilitation and she subsequently relearned to walk and talk - "I think I'm just stubborn, that's all". On August 4, 1965, she gave birth to a healthy daughter, Lucy.

An alternative event, but one which has the same effect is sudden frenetic exercise causing the blood to pump round the body at the same rate as shock might do.  As you get older, gentle exercise makes sense, but any sport requiring considerable exertion does run the risk of dislodging detritus.  One of my friends died of a stroke from playing squash.

 

Physical injury and surgery

Physical injury to the head, but also surgery in general can cause strokes.  The problem with all surgery is that it introduces blood clots into the body at the site of the operation.  Anaesthetists are normally given the job of trying to minimise the risk, the medical profession are, however, well aware of the risks of all surgery in this respect...

 Viral infection

There is more and more evidence appearing now on Pubmed to support the theory that some  strokes are from a blood clot related to vulnerable soft plaque due to an active infection in the arterial wall.  This infection is often caused by the herpes viruses as they are quite common, but there are links to CMV- cytomegalic virus,  EBV,  the chicken pox virus VZV.... 

Then we have the rubella virus [and the Haemophilus influenzae bacteria].....

Lupus is associated with the viruses parvovirus B19, Epstein-Barr virus, and cytomegalovirus. 

Vaccines

Strokes can be caused by viruses.  Many viruses, once in the system never leave us, but are temporarily subdued until our immune system is compromised, at which point they re-emerge.  This can happen many years later in, for example, old age. So strokes in old age can be caused by viruses caught when young.  But there is another source of viruses - vaccines.

Many vaccines contain live viruses as the agent.  Some are slightly less virulent than the 'wild' strain, some are actually made to be more virulent in the belief that somehow we gain more immunity by being bombarded by something truly deadly.  And it is very clear that these viruses re-emerge.....

A virus is with us for ever.  And it may be the cause of a stroke.

Bacterial infection

Bacterial infection is now recognised as a very important, but often overlooked cause of strokes. As we saw above they can be caused by an embolus - a travelling particle in the arterial bloodstream originating from elsewhere. It can be a thrombus, but it can also be clumps of bacteria.  Bacteria can also attack the arterial wall and cause blood clots.  Although the following paper is about children, there are other papers on PubMed that link these and many other bacteria with stroke

One frequently overlooked source of bacteria is the mouth.  People with gingivitis and gum disease, where bacteria may enter the blood stream from bleeding gums, run a higher risk of stroke than those who make sure their teeth and gums are healthy.  The bacteria from the mouth can cause both heart valve damage and atherosclerosis.  Incidentally it does no good to use mouthwash in the vain hope that somehow this will solve everything.  It doesn't.

Parasites

Not all parasites enter the blood stream if they manage to gain entry to the body, but some do and their irritant action has much the same effect in that a blood clot may form as the parasite buries itself in the vulnerable soft plaque of the arterial wall.

Lest we think that this is a problem of tropical countries we should not forget the role of the domestic cat.

 And particularly sad and unpleasant is that these parasites can pass from mother to fetus....

 Another culprit is the Echinococcus parasite, which, if it manages to get into the blood stream is also able to adhere to the arterial walls and form 'plaques' which could break off in times of stress and rapid blood flow, for example

The fox is a serious carrier of parasites and spreads Echinococcosis.  In countries where dogs and cats are not wormed and their faeces safely disposed of, domestic dogs and cats can also be a problem.

 

Toxins

The role of smoke as an irritant and its ability to cause strokes, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and a host of ther diseases has long been known, but the emphasis on smoke has served to deflect attention from all the other toxins that act as irritants in the blood stream. 

One of the more recent additions to the long list of toxic agents is the nanoparticle - invented by scientists and being released into the environment by scientists in the belief that they do no harm, except that yet other researchers have realised they do a lot of harm......

 

 Heavy metals

 All heavy metals including lead and mercury act as irritants in the blood stream.

Thus as long as you are producing enough glutathione very small concentrations are dealt with, but larger concentrations cannot be and you will get deposits of metal on the arterial walls which may later form emboluses.

In this we should not forget the role of dental amalgam fillings, as they are mercury based.  Where a filling is leaking or poor dental work has been undertaken, then the mercury may be the cause.

 Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals act as toxins in the blood stream simply because they are generally 'foreign agents'.  The eHealthme site has a list of all the pharmaceuticals that have been implicated in causing a stroke. 

These are not anecdotal reports but based on the Adverse Drug Reports submitted to the FDA and SEDA.  We have had difficulties trying to link to this site, as they have reorganised a number of times and broken the links we carefully set up to the specific pages on which the information can be found. 

Thus we have decided the best way is to give you instructions on how to find the information yourself. 

Go to the eHealthme site by following this LINK.  In the box 'enter a drug or condition' type 'stroke'.  You should get a list of all the different sorts of stroke.  Choose the type that you have from the list.  For example, by choosing 'Haemorrhagic stroke', it will take you to a page which has a graph of the number of stokes reported that have been due to pharmaceuticals.  Scroll down.  Under the heading 'Drugs that could cause Haemorrhagic stroke', press this link.  This will then give you several pages of drugs, in alphabetic order, implicated in causing that kind of stroke.  The list shows the drug, the Number of stroke reports and a link to the support group if one exists.

 Here is an interesting little statistic gleaned from the past, for those who put forward the theory that aspirin prevents stroke....

On Sep, 8, 2014: 161,027 people reported to have side effects when taking Aspirin. Among them, 3,843 people (2.39%) have Stroke.

And here we have a diabetes medication of possibly even more interest

On Sep, 26, 2014: 65,460 people reported to have side effects when taking Avandia. Among them, 7,752 people (11.84%) have Stroke.

Fungal infection

Fungi can also cause strokes as well as the mycotoxins that fungi produce, but it seems that it is occasionally the medical profession's use of immunosuppressant drugs that enable the fungi to enter the system.

Food allergy or other allergies

Food that has found its way into the blood stream, is no different from the body's point of view to a heavy metal, or some other form of toxin.  It is not regarded as a virus or a bacteria, or a parasite, all of which have stealth capability - intelligence - but it is still an invader, thus the immune system responds in the same way it would if it came across lead or mercury, for example, it forms a memory of it so that it can be recognised again and then proceeds to engulf it and try to get it out of the system.  Occasionally it succeeds, occasionally it doesn't.  Occasionally this harmful little package ends up on the walls of our arteries and contributes to atherosclerosis.  Thus in the long term, food allergy leds to the build up of plaque and plaque leads to strokes.

So how does food get into the blood stream?

Food enters the blood stream if the protective effect of our intestinal flora, or the protective effects of the stomach acid or the enzymes that process food have been compromised.   If these primary defences are not working food can leak into the blood stream.  If we have a food allergy, then it is certain this is what has been happening, thus although the heading says food allergy this is a symptom not a cause.  But it is a very important symptom because it is a risk factor.  If we have a food allergy or any other allergy we are at risk from a stroke, as it means that particles have entered the blood stream and may have been deposited on the arterial walls.

If this has happened only once or twice then the risk is extremely low if not non existent, but if the breaching of the protective barriers has happened a considerable number of times then the risk increases. 

So what compromises our protective gastrointestinal and enzyme system?  These are all causes, if any of the following have happened repeatedly the risk of a stroke has increased each time it has happened:

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  Food and drink overdose - It doesn't actually matter what the food or drink  is, but if we have too much of it, it seems that the body is unable to process it and it can enter our blood circulatory system.

• Pharmaceuticals - Pharmaceuticals can destroy gut flora, as well as neutralise stomach acid and compromise bile acid. They also have a poor record for disrupting and destroying enzymes.  If you are taking any of these on a regular basis you run the risk of a stroke.  
  This LINK takes you to the eHealthme drugs that have caused 'Abnormality in enzymes' - about 2000 pharmaceuticals.  ....Methotrexate, allopurinol and the activated form of acyclovir are all enzyme inhibitors. Some so called  anti-epileptic drugs alter enzyme activity. Another example of a medicinal enzyme inhibitor is sildenafil (Viagra), a common treatment for male erectile dysfunction. Aspirin is an enzyme inhibitor as are ACE inhibitors. If we now turn to stomach acid, bile acids, and gut flora, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics, antidepressants, acne treatments, aspirin, proton pump inhibitors, heartburn and ulcer treatments, plus numerous other pharmaceuticals destroys our intestinal flora, and the defences provided by our stomach.

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   Nutritional deprivation - Any form of mineral imbalance, vitamin imbalance, acid/alkaline food imbalance or other food imbalance will result in two things.  In the first place the organs of the gastrointestinal system will no longer operate as effectively, leading to the risk of infiltration by food and other pathogens.  In the second place, the gut flora described above also needs feeding, so if we deprive the gut flora, we effectively deprive ourselves of their help.

• Viruses  -Viruses can compromise and destroy intestinal flora and the protective action of the gastrointestinal system.

• Parasites - Parasites affect the Intestines and the stomach and compromise our defences as a consequence

• Birth method - There is a school of thought that says the method of birth of a baby has a bearing on the gut flora it is able to develop.  Infants born by cesarean section—particularly cesareans performed before labor begins—don’t encounter the bacteria of the birth canal and are thus permanently deprived of full protection

• Toxins - toxins can attack and destroy the intestinal flora and compromise the function of the entire gastrointestinal system, including the enzymes. Toxins in this context include heavy metals such as lead and mercury.  We saw that  enzyme inhibitors can also disrupt or completely destroy the enzymes that process food.  Enzyme inhibitors are used as pesticides.

• Copper imbalance - Copper is an antibacterial agent.  If you have too much copper in your system it can destroy your intestinal flora. 

• Surgery - can compromise the effectiveness of any of the organs in the gastrointestinal system.  Note that this includes gastric bands and other surgery used on the obese.  Removing the gall bladder, for example, is not helpful.

• Radiation - of all sorts can damage the workings of the gastrointestinal system

• Bacterial infection - although we have so called 'friendly bacteria, there are a vast number of very unfriendly bacteria that can damage and infect the gastrointestinal system and lead to it not working properly.

• Vaccines - In the sections above I cover all the ways the gastrointestinal system can be breached.  But there appears to be one way in which all these defences are breached by being totally by-passed and that is via vaccines. Vaccines are not just some agent in a benign liquid.  They contain an adjuvant - a booster to get the immune system kick started and an excipient and the excipient can contain a vast range of food stuffs and E numbered chemicals, all of which will swill round the blood circulatory system being treated as a pathogen.  This LINK takes you to the Wikipedia list of ingredients.  Put rather crudely the more vaccinations you have had the more likely it is you will get a stroke, simply because you will have been injected with more excipient [and adjuvant].

 The following finding may also be of interest.

 Radiation

All radiation whether 'cosmic' or electromagnetic impacts our bodies and depending on its frequency it resonates different parts of us.  The reason that nuclear radiation is so dangerous is that it impacts cells, but what we appear to have overlooked is that all radiation impacts some part of us.

Every aggregate in our bodies - organs, cells, the body itself, has natural ‘resonance’.  Resonance is a substance’s natural tendency to oscillate – vibrate – at maximum amplitude at certain frequencies, known as the thing’s resonant frequency.  And our blood vessels may be vibrated too.

If they are vibrated it may be this that dislodges the embolisms and other detritus. 

Treatment

Symptom based medicine - 'Medical management' for stroke includes advice on diet, exercise, smoking and alcohol use.  Medication or drug therapy is the most common method of stroke treatment.  Prevention of recurrence may involve the administration of antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin and dipyridamole, control and reduction of hypertension, and the use of statins. Some  patients are given anticoagulants. 

But given the causes, none of these are any use at all, as the virus will still be there, the bacteria will still be there, the parasite will still be there, the toxins will still be there, the heavy metals will still be there and the fungi will still be there.

Cause based medicine -  Find the cause.   Always look for the cause, always - see healing yourself.

 

How it works

Not all strokes cause spiritual experiences [although coma victims have been known to have spiritual experiences that they do remember].  

• Hemorrhagic strokes result in tissue injury by causing compression of tissue from an expanding hematoma or hematomas. This can distort and injure tissue. In addition, the pressure may lead to a loss of blood supply to affected tissue causing  hypoxia, and the blood released by brain hemorrhage appears to have direct toxic effects on brain tissue and vasculature causing cell death. 
• In an Ischemic stroke, brain tissue ceases to function if deprived of oxygen for more than 60 to 90 seconds and after approximately three hours, will suffer irreversible injury possibly leading to death of the tissue. 

Thus, where a spiritual experience results, the stroke may have caused the spiritual experience via short term hypoxia or via long term brain damage.

So depending on the ability of the doctors to treat the emergency, a person may only obtain a one-off spiritual experience from the hypoxia induced stroke or may suffer permanent spiritual experience in the form of hallucinations, visions or on a more positive note inspiration or wisdom, from the damage done to the brain itself.

References and further reading

Papers

• Am J Med Sci. 2014 Sep 9. [Epub ahead of print]  Varicella-Zoster Virus Vasculopathy: The Growing Association Between Herpes Zoster and Strokes.  Powell DR 2nd1, Patel S, Franco-Paredes C.  1Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (DRP, SP, CF-P), Infectious Diseases, Albany, Georgia; and Hospital Infantil de Mexico (CF-P), Federico Gomez, Mexico City, Mexico.

• Biometals. 2007 Feb;20(1):73-81. Epub 2006 Jun 4.  Cadmium and mercury cause an oxidative stress-induced endothelial dysfunction.  Wolf MB1, Baynes JW.  Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. wolf@med.sc.edu

Organisations

• Stroke Association  Stroke Helpline: 0303 3033 100  Email: info@stroke.org.uk; Website: stroke.org.uk - Contact for information about stroke, emotional support and details of local services and support groups.

• Locked-in syndrome - Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability  Tel: 020 8780 4500  Website: www.rhn.org.uk - This charity provides assessments, rehabilitation and care for people with brain damage or brain disease. They also have a variety of assistive technologies that help people with locked-in syndrome to communicate.

• National Rehabilitation Information Center    Website: www.naric.com - An American website through which you can access research studies into recovery and long-term outcomes for people affected by locked in syndrome.

• ALIS – Association du Locked-in Syndrome  Website: www.alis-asso.fr - A French website about locked-in syndrome. Depending on the web browser you use, you may be able to view an English version of this website.

• Fighting strokes  Answerphone helpline: 0114 236 9222  Website: www.fightingstrokes.org - A charity that aims to inspire people with locked-in syndrome, particularly young people.

• Stroke support group  - Website: www.strokesupportgroup.org/ forums/forum/109-locked-in-syndrome Online support group, including a forum for people affected by locked-in syndrome.

• Locked-in syndrome website Website: www.mlongo.net/home.php  A website from someone with locked-in syndrome in Malta.

• RNIB - Tel: 0303 123 9999 Website: www.rnib.org.uk - Information and support for people with visual problems. Has useful information about coping with hallucinations.

• British Dietetic Association - Tel: 0121 200 8080 - Website: www.bda.uk.com  Provide factsheets on various aspects of diet and nutrition.

Books

•  The diving bell and the butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby; Paperback 1997 Fourth Estate, London. Mr Bauby was the editor of the French magazine Elle. He had a massive brain stem stroke resulting in locked-in syndrome.  He dictated this book by blinking his eye in response to assistants reading out the letters of the alphabet. His story was released as an award-winning film in 2007.

• In the blink of an eye - Hasso and Catherine von Bredow Hardback 2009 Orion Publishing. - Hasso von Bredow (a father of three and successful businessman) suffered a massive brainstem stroke, leaving him with locked-in syndrome. He used coded blinking and state of the art technology to write this moving and life-affirming memoir, helped only by his wife.

Observations

In January 1996, Kirk Douglas  suffered a severe stroke, partially impairing his ability to speak. Douglas celebrated a second Bar-Mitzvah ceremony in 1999 at the age of eighty-three.

In 2001, Douglas met with ABILITY Magazine to discuss his book My Stroke of Luck. He said,

"After my stroke I started to think, 'What good is an actor who can't talk?' My wife helped me a lot because...you see, when a person becomes disabled, often their family starts thinking, 'Oh dear, don't move, let me get that for you' and all that.

But, when once I told my wife that I thought I wanted breakfast in bed the next morning, she said the old joke, "If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen."

 

Related observations

Healing observations

• Acupuncture and paralysis 006230
• Braid, James – Curing the effects of stroke using hypnotherapy 026219
• Brian Keenan – Four Quarters of Light - Charlie heals himself 011523
• Chocolate 005781
• Chocolate and the heart 005625
• Comparative study on the brain protection in patients of traumatic cerebral infarction treated with bloodletting at Jing-well points and semen coicis 021308
• Dance as a therapy for cancer prevention 020165
• Dr Duke's list of chemicals and activity for the Shallot 017969
• Dr Duke's list of Chemicals and their Biological Activities in: Prunella vulgaris L. (Lamiaceae) -- Heal-All, Self-Heal 018270
• Dr Duke's list of Chemicals with Antistroke activity 020751
• Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anti-aggregate activity 017520
• Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antistroke activity 020753
• Dr Duke’s list of Chemicals and their Biological Activities in: Cucurbita pepo L. (Cucurbitaceae) -- Zucchini 027494
• Dr Susan Mandel’s work with heart attack and stroke victims 021835
• Effect of high potassium diet on endothelial function 020755
• Effectiveness and safety of Chinese massage therapy (Tui Na) on post-stroke spasticity: a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial 026355
• Effects of an aquatic therapy approach (Halliwick-Therapy) on functional mobility in subacute stroke patients: a randomized controlled trial 020761
• Feasibility of Using TetraxTM Biofeedback Video-games for Balance Training in Patients with Chronic Hemiplegic Stroke 020756
• Ficino, Marsilio - Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus - And music therapy 015985
• Fight like a ferret: a novel approach of using art therapy to reduce anxiety in stroke patients undergoing hospital rehabilitation 020762
• Fish, heart and blood circulatory problems and mercury 012482
• Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing stroke, cerebral palsy, spinal-cord injuries, and other CNS and neuromuscular disorders using biofeedback 027319
• Gupta, Robert – TEDtalk Between music and medicine - 02 021967
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 03 - A monkey mama is floating in the air in front of him 014250
• Hydroxysafflor yellow A protects against cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury by anti-apoptotic effect through PI3K/Akt/GSK3β pathway in rat. 020853
• Japanese women, soy beans and health 005534
• Literature and art therapy in post-stroke psychological disorders 020763
• Macmillan helps a stroke victim 004404
• Music therapy - The Community Music Therapy project – ‘Music is about mystery Music is spiritual’ 022461
• Music therapy - The story of stroke victim Donald 022460
• Music therapy and stroke 005835
• Music Therapy – Judith Nockolds and Jim 021974
• Music therapy – The story of stroke victim Joy who learned how to play jazz 022462
• Neuroprotective effects of Buyang Huanwu decoction on cerebral ischemia-induced neuronal damage 020752
• Nutrition for brain recovery after ischemic stroke: an added value to rehabilitation 020757
• Patterns of mind-body therapies in adults with common neurological conditions 026174
• Protection of seven dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans from Schisandra chinensis against serum and glucose deprivation injury in SH-SY5Y cells 020880
• Protective effect of Hibiscus sabdariffa against serum/glucose deprivation-induced PC12 cells injury 020754
• Role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in stroke rehabilitation 020759
• Schisandrin B Ameliorates ICV-Infused Amyloid β Induced Oxidative Stress and Neuronal Dysfunction through Inhibiting RAGE/NF-κB/MAPK and Up-Regulating HSP/Beclin Expression 020881
• Simon Lewis - And his near death experience 014693
• Sulforaphane as a potential protective phytochemical against neurodegenerative diseases 021407
• The effects of inspiratory diaphragm breathing exercise and expiratory pursed-lip breathing exercise on chronic stroke patients’ respiratory muscle activation 029603
• The Immune system and cannabis 007599
• Therapeutic benefits of garlic 006174
• Therapeutics Education Collaboration - Doctor (123456789) 012492
• Tooth and gum disease and its effects on the body 012099
• Virtual reality for stroke rehabilitation 020758

Hallucination

• A prophetic hallucination of her own death 026698
• Activase 017944
• Aortic dissection and delirium 006822
• Auditory dysfunction in patients with cerebrovascular disease 023396
• Auditory hallucinations and acute stroke 012627
• Case study of man with an acute stroke and auditory hallucinations 012631
• Case study of stroke victim who heard her dead mother 012630
• Case study of stroke victim with auditory hallucinations 012628
• Chagas disease and neurological manifestations 012790
• Devereux, Paul - The arabesque patterns of hallucinatory experience 021824
• Düşünen Adam The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, Volume 29, Number 1, March 2016 Tactile hallucination and delusion following acute stroke: a case report 029605
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 01 - Attacked by soldiers with fierce medieval weapons 014248
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 02 - Shot up into the air like a rocket 014249
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 03 - A monkey mama is floating in the air in front of him 014250
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 05 - Imaginary reptiles conjured up by his drug-soaked thalamus 014252
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 06 - Hallucinations in the MRI 014253
• Hydergine 019109
• Laubscher, B J F - A few days later Mrs K died of a stroke 023262
• Lyrica hallucinations 023920
• Mad itching - 'sensory hallucinations of pruritogenic stimuli' 006133
• Musical hallucinations and the right brain 006149
• Neuroanatomic correlates of visual hallucinations in poststroke hemianopic patients 029515
• Oliver Sacks - Mrs O' C and the crystal radio 003694
• Oliver Sacks - Stroke causing damage to occipital lobe 001657
• Parasitosis of the Central Nervous system 012791
• Pathology of CNS parasitic infections 012792
• Peduncular Hallucinosis 001658
• Pharmaceutical experiments on a stroke victim 002079
• Post stroke hallucinations 012623
• Psychiatric disorders in neurology 020778
• Rare effects of stroke – Stroke Association November 2012 012624
• Stroke and hallucinations 012626
• Terrifying hallucinations as precursor to a stroke 014428
• Traubel, Horace – In his dying moments is helped by the ghost of Walt Whitman 027298
• Visual Hallucinations Following a Left-sided Unilateral Tuberothalamic Artery Infarction 012496

Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss

• Bolte Taylor, Jill 001654
• Canistris, Opicinus de - Diagram with Zodiac symbols 001659
• Canistris, Opicinus de - Diagram with 'Crucifixion' 012894
• Canistris, Opicinus de - Man as Pyramid 012895
• Canistris, Opicinus de - World map 012896
• Dudley Moore - I can hear the music all around me. 012471
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 03 - A monkey mama is floating in the air in front of him 014250
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 04 - Brain structure [form] and functions are separate 014251
• I felt incredibly happy, at peace and joyful 021460
• Shebalin - String Quartet No 8, op 53 (1960) 021814
• Shebalin - String Quartet No 9 op 58 (1963) 021811
• Shebalin - Symphony No.5 (I-II) 021808
• Shebalin - Symphony No.5 (III-IV) 021809
• Tavener, John - Celtic Requiem 012158
• Tavener, John - Compilation 003582
• Tavener, John - Svyati 016192
• Tavener, John - The Protecting Veil 003562
• Tranströmer, Tomas - Black Postcards II 025717

Out of time

Near death, Out of time, Out of body, Rebirth

• Blindfolded and epilepsy 001320
• Bolte Taylor, Jill 001654
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 02 - Shot up into the air like a rocket 014249
• Peace from a stroke 001655
• Simon Lewis - And his near death experience 014693

Enlightenment

Kundalini, Ecstasy, Moksha, Nirvana and Annihilation

• Auditory hallucinations and acute stroke 012627
• Case study of man with an acute stroke and auditory hallucinations 012631
• Case study of stroke victim who heard her dead mother 012630

In time

Synaesthesia, Pure or enhanced perception, Inter composer communication, Vision, Dream, Perception recall, Exploring group perception

• Alix Fox - when love is scented with lemons, life with olfactory synaesthesia 027672
• Aortic dissection and delirium 006822
• Auditory hallucinations and acute stroke 012627
• Canistris, Opicinus de - Diagram with Zodiac symbols 001659
• Case study of man with an acute stroke and auditory hallucinations 012631
• Case study of stroke victim who heard her dead mother 012630
• Case study of stroke victim with auditory hallucinations 012628
• Dying - when the spirit can flit back and forth for a while before finally departing 021612
• Dying and TB 000590
• Her grandmother dreamed of the death of her mother 014477
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 01 - Attacked by soldiers with fierce medieval weapons 014248
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 02 - Shot up into the air like a rocket 014249
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 03 - A monkey mama is floating in the air in front of him 014250
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 05 - Imaginary reptiles conjured up by his drug-soaked thalamus 014252
• Hobson, Dr Allan - The effects of a stroke 06 - Hallucinations in the MRI 014253
• I cannot fully articulate the feeling I had of a 'presence' in the room 021502
• I distinctly felt her kiss the top of my head 021453
• I felt an electric shock and saw a cord snapping which woke me up 021510
• I felt incredibly happy, at peace and joyful 021460
• Laubscher, B J F – Gone, gone, gone to the other shore 023267
• Lethbridge, T C - Ghost and Ghoul – Sat on by the ghost of Mrs R 021800
• Mad itching - 'sensory hallucinations of pruritogenic stimuli' 006133
• Oliver Sacks - Mrs O' C and the crystal radio 003694
• Oliver Sacks - Mrs O'C feels herself back in Ireland 014345
• Peace from a stroke 001655
• Simon Lewis - And his near death experience 014693
• The man in a coma opens his eyes, the colour of which was the most piercing luminescent blue she had ever seen 021266
• Traubel, Horace – In his dying moments is helped by the ghost of Walt Whitman 027298
• US based man has a daytime sighting of his UK based dying mother 021347
• Wendy Lewis’s account of her mother's twin sister's reaction to her death 021450

Prophecy

• A prophetic hallucination of her own death 026698
• I felt an electric shock and saw a cord snapping which woke me up 021510

Dying

• Dudley Moore - I can hear the music all around me. 012471
• Dying - when the spirit can flit back and forth for a while before finally departing 021612
• Dying and TB 000590
• Her grandmother dreamed of the death of her mother 014477
• I cannot fully articulate the feeling I had of a 'presence' in the room 021502
• I distinctly felt her kiss the top of my head 021453
• I felt an electric shock and saw a cord snapping which woke me up 021510
• I felt incredibly happy, at peace and joyful 021460
• I just saw my mother standing in the doorway as clearly as I can see you 021336
• Laubscher, B J F - A few days later Mrs K died of a stroke 023262
• Laubscher, B J F – Gone, gone, gone to the other shore 023267
• Music Therapy – Judith Nockolds and Jim 021974
• The man in a coma opens his eyes, the colour of which was the most piercing luminescent blue she had ever seen 021266
• Traubel, Horace – In his dying moments is helped by the ghost of Walt Whitman 027298
• US based man has a daytime sighting of his UK based dying mother 021347
• Wendy Lewis’s account of her mother's twin sister's reaction to her death 021450

Environmental Influence

• Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Apoplexy [stroke or haemorrhage] induced by powerful emotions – Fear, pain, or anger 026131
• Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Stroke and loss of speech induced by powerful emotions - fury 026093

Other observations

• Correlation between strokes and violent weather 006543
• Damasio, Professor Antonio - Asomatognosia 011006
• Drugs.com - Dietary supplement case reports 020867
• FDA questions use of aspirin for primary prevention of stroke and heart attack 012144