1800-HELP-LIN3
Director: Rohan
Duration: 00:02:50; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 35.530; Saturation: 0.047; Lightness: 0.593; Cuts per Minute: 11.610; Words per Minute: 98.156
Summary: Aim of this 3-month long research was to learn and experience in-practice the methodology of Neuromodulation approach to neuropsychiatric conditions via tDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) administered in hand with CET (Cognitive and Emotional Therapy) techniques, upon in-residents and OPD (Out Patient Department) patients at AIIMS Delhi; while using the influx of mental health cases (especially Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders) after Covid Pandemic as an entry point.
Here, I explored the intersection of an Artist, a Scientist, and a Psychiatrist.
21st century
alternative therapy
art & Science
chronic diseases
Endemic
For this project, and as a Continuation to my ongoing Research-cum-practice, I collaborated with AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) Delhi's Dept. of Neuroscience and worked up & close with a Brain Scientist and a Sr. Professor of Psychiatry at the institution. My aim of this 3-month long research was to learn and experience in-practice the methodology of Neuromodulation approach to neuropsychiatric conditions via tDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) administered in hand with CET (Cognitive and Emotional Therapy) techniques, upon in-residents and OPD (Out Patient Department) patients at the facility; while using the influx of mental health cases (especially Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders) after Covid Pandemic as an entry point into this medico-artistic investigation.
Here, I explored the intersection of an Artist, a Scientist, and a Psychiatrist. Inquiring as to what happens when they come together to engage into an artistic discourse. Furthermore, this project was originally meant to be a .pdf file as a work of art; exploring the Vector-based 2-Dimensional space through the ubiquitous nature of a Portable Document Format, whereby I add, subtract, construct and manipulate elements (Data & Documentations contributed, by this community-based spatial dialogue) into stitching together a visual map of the entire process into the said digital canvas. The project is a part of an ongoing series of work.
https://media.pad.ma/documents/BZB
If we truly require silence to cure monsters, then it must be an attentive silence, and it is in this that the division lingers. Foucault is explaining how the change in the epistemic order have lend an ear to the madmen, but still retained the division intact.
India
Mental health
Neuromodulation
Neuroscience
New delhi
treatment resistant
Please hold while I redirect
As discourses of madness and deviance were deployed in the metropolis
to rationalise the working classes’ aversion towards bourgeois
timetables and schedules, so did discourses of ‘superstition’ and racial
inferiority function as their counterparts in the colonial context, where
– as Frantz Fanon observed – anti-colonial sentiments were routinely
‘attributed to religious, magical, fanatical behavior’.37 To recover narratives
of resistance, therefore, we will need to read between the lines of
colonial discourse: here, as Fanon hinted, the native’s ‘laziness’ often
emerges as ‘the conscious sabotage of the colonial machine’. - Geordano Nanni
नानी माँ के नुस्खें
1. The patient sits on a reclining chair, supporting the body in a recumbent state.
POV
नानी माँ के नुस्खें
1. The patient sits on a reclining chair, supporting the body in a recumbent state.
POV
2. The patient is asked to put on a Head-cap (EEG or Electroencephalogram cap), so that the session could be started and administered under the Neuroscientist.
(Material: Neoprene)
(Cap size: M)
2. The patient is asked to put on a Head-cap (EEG or Electroencephalogram cap), so that the session could be started and administered under the Neuroscientist.
(Material: Neoprene)
(Cap size: M)
3. The Neuroscientist first cleans the top layer of patient's scalp (removing dead skin, oil or dust particles) using the wooden end of cotton-swab into the openings of Electrodes' washers (present on the mounted headcap), and pushes aside the hair until clean skin is visible for further application
3. The Neuroscientist first cleans the top layer of patient's scalp (removing dead skin, oil or dust particles) using the wooden end of cotton-swab into the openings of Electrodes' washers (present on the mounted headcap), and pushes aside the hair until clean skin is visible for further application
Then a conductive gel (Abralyt Gel: an abrasive gel to increase conductivity for EEG stimulation) is applied upon the focused areas via plastic syringe, so as to enable sufficient current between electrodes and the patient's scalp.
4. The button-shaped electrodes are then attached upon the head-cap's washers. Based upon the 10-20 system, this approach works on the relationship between location of an electrode placed on scalp and the underlying area of brain, thus varying from one clinical disorder to another.
Manufacturer: Neuroelectrics
For instance, while studying Depressive Disorders (such as Dysthymia, MDD (Major Depressive Disorder), Double Depressive Disorder, Vascular Disorder etc), the scalp electrode placement sites or the EEG Montage (here, depression_R32_montage, where '32' refers to the number of mounts or channels available in the used EEG-cap) we observed were:
Fp1: Frontal-polar area (denoting that scalp electrode 'Fp1' will be reading from the 'frontal-polar' lobe or area of brain)
F3, F4, F7, F8: Frontal areas Cz: Central area (where 'z' refers to 'O' or zero i.e. defines the midline of skull's Plane)
CPS, CP6: Central-parietal areas
cms: common mode sense (a reference electrode clipped on the right earlobe via an ear-clip)
drl: driven right leg (another reference electrode placed on the ear-clip along with 'cms'; both to be counted separate from EEG cap's 32 mounts)
where F3 is Anode and F4 is Cathode, thus completing the circuit.
4. The button-shaped electrodes are then attached upon the head-cap's washers. Based upon the 10-20 system, this approach works on the relationship between location of an electrode placed on scalp and the underlying area of brain, thus varying from one clinical disorder to another.
Manufacturer: Neuroelectrics
For instance, while studying Depressive Disorders (such as Dysthymia, MDD (Major Depressive Disorder), Double Depressive Disorder, Vascular Disorder etc), the scalp electrode placement sites or the EEG Montage (here, depression_R32_montage, where '32' refers to the number of mounts or channels available in the used EEG-cap) we observed were:
Fp1: Frontal-polar area (denoting that scalp electrode 'Fp1' will be reading from the 'frontal-polar' lobe or area of brain)
F3, F4, F7, F8: Frontal areas Cz: Central area (where 'z' refers to 'O' or zero i.e. defines the midline of skull's Plane)
CPS, CP6: Central-parietal areas
cms: common mode sense (a reference electrode clipped on the right earlobe via an ear-clip)
drl: driven right leg (another reference electrode placed on the ear-clip along with 'cms'; both to be counted separate from EEG cap's 32 mounts)
where F3 is Anode and F4 is Cathode, thus completing the circuit.
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