Magic Carpet Ride
This neurotransmitter is essential to hemostatis.
What is serotonin?
Blood pressure, heart rate, agitation, and sleep should be monitored when using this medication class.
What are neurostimulants?
This medication is commonly associated with promoting arousal and recovery of consciousness in certain patients with severe acquired brain injury.
What is amantadine?
This Parkinson disease medication has been studied in combination with rehabilitation therapy for motor recovery after stroke.
What is carbidopa/levodopa?
These two medications can help improve expression in chronic expressive aphasia.
What are Memantine or Donepezil?
The common drug side effect we try to avoid in rehab.
What is sedation?
If you leave your patient too long on these they might get unintentional movements.
What are antipsychotics?
Amantadine primarily affects this neurotransmitter system, although its pharmacology is more complex.
What is the dopaminergic system?
This medication remains at the center of an ongoing debate regarding its impact on stroke recovery.
What is fluoxetine?
Blocking CCR-5 may help recovery by modulating this.
What is inflammation/immune response?
Name an AED that appears to be safe to use in stroke.
What is levetiracetam?
NSAIDS might incresae the risk of this.
What is Bleeding?
A property of amantadine that could make people more confused.
What is anticholinergic effects?
Carbidopa/levodopa in subacute stroke has been shown to not improve this at 8 weeks.
What is walking?
Combining this with a neurostimulant should lead to better recovery than giving a neurostimulant alone.
What is activity-based therapy?
Fluoxetine has these two notable potential side effects.
What is bleeding and bone fractures?
Benzodiazepines increased incidence of these events in mild to moderate stroke patients.
What is Falls?
In a patient with poor arousal and poor attention you might consider this.
What is methylphenidate?
Modafinil has been shown to improve this in chronic stroke.
What is post-stroke fatigue?
This is needed to improve our pharmacological management of stroke recovery.
What is more well-designed studies?