SPOT A STROKE: Warning Signs and Impulse Urges

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Stroke emergency awareness & recognition signs [medical procedure infographic]

Stroke Impulses are sudden, intense urges that can result from neurological conditions like those following a stroke. It’s like having your brain’s impulse control dial turned way down. These impulses can be surprising and out of character, driven by changes in brain function. Understanding and managing these impulses requires patience and support.

STROKE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2021/03/31/stroke/

These changes in personality and mood after stroke are common. Impulsiveness, apathy, pseudobulbar affect, anger, frustration and depression can affect a stroke survivor’s quality of life.

AGE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2025/03/03/signs-aging-check-up/

So, according to psychologist and colleague Dan Ariely PhD, if you or someone you know is dealing with stroke impulses, remember: it’s a brain thing, not a willpower thing.

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SIGNS: Aging Check-Up

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

How to check for signs of aging?

By Staff Reporters

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Standing on one leg

Dr. Claudio Gil Araujo’s 12-year study in Brazil of 1,702 people enlisted participants to try the above exercise (it was then repeated on the other leg.) One hundred and twenty-three people died in the 10 years that followed – equivalent to an 84 per cent heightened risk of death, when adjustments for underlying conditions, age and sex were made. 

Causation has yet to be established. However: “this rapid and objective feedback… adds useful information regarding mortality risk in middle-aged and older men and women,” the paper reports.

And, the findings of the study has led to Araujo pushing for balance tests to be part of health screenings for the elderly due to correlation between poor balance and various medical conditions – from hearing loss to severe diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Even if you are considered to be a healthy adult, the inability to balance on one leg for over 20 seconds could be linked to an increased risk of small blood vessel damage in the brain, reduced cognitive function and strokes.

EDUCATION: Books

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HINDSIGHT BIAS: The “Curse of Knowledge”

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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The Curse of Knowledge and Hindsight Bias

Similar in ways to the availability heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974) and to some extent, the false consensus effect, once you (truly) understand a new piece of information, that piece of information is now available to you and often becomes seemingly obvious. It might be easy to forget that there was ever a time you didn’t know this information and so, you assume that others, like yourself, also know this information: the curse of knowledge.

Cite: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/11/18/what-is-the-dunning-kruger-effect/

However, according to colleague Dan Ariely PhD, it is often an unfair assumption that others share the same knowledge. The hindsight bias is similar to the curse of knowledge in that once we have information about an event, it then seems obvious that it was going to happen all along.

I should have seen it [divorce, stock market crash/soar my smoking & lung cancer, unemployment, etc] coming!

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