A year after patients underwent controversial treatment to improve blood flow to the brain, their cognitive function continues to improve, researchers said Wednesday.
“When we first did these studies, we were hoping that we would not adversely affect our patients’ mental functioning,” Rodney Raabe, director of radiology at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., told United Press International. “That’s why we included a battery of psychological and cognitive tests along with the procedure.”
“We were concerned that the procedure would cause damage in patients who had no problems,” he said. “Not only did we not cause any damage that can be found, in most cases the patients improved substantially.”
Certainly, a multi-center trial to test the theory that carotid artery stenting improves function should follow. A pleasant surprise, indeed.
The cognitive improvements are not from increase blood supply to the head. Rather, the improvement is the result of reduced blood supply to the “other” head, thus eliminating the natural antagonist to the male mammalian mind.
Now that we’ve tackled the blood flow problem to one head, leave it to researchers to work on the blood flow to the other.
I’d suggest trying it on the idiot in the White House; but, I’m not certain what passes for a brain in his skull is connected to anything. Certainly not his balls — as witness VietNam, blah, blah.
Charity starts at home. Start with Uncle Dave.
I wonder if this would improve the drug experience overall. 😉
The problem is that there is a long-term stroke risk in stents that hasn’t been completely dealt with yet.
Rather than just one guy in the White House, I think it should be implemented on the entire Left Wing establishment.