#neuro-dissent

[sybaritick]

and speaking of year-end roundups, one of the things ik i am associated with on here is the kink concept posts. here are 10 from 2024! you can now vote on your favorite! (which i would like to expand into a little original-work oneshot!)

building better catboys / our pretentious designer breed Anyway I totally shouldn't talk about this here but some catfolk protection NGO sent us one of those lawyer threat form letters because of the non-domestic feline intermixture and some unapproved genemods the shop did for us for some neuro and behavioral stuff. I chucked the first one assuming they weren't serious and they sent another that seems a little more concerning but I doubt they'll really do anything. Anything the shop did is gonna get approved in another 5 years I'm sure and if they don't it's because of the hybrid personhood lobby as usual. They sent a letter here addressed to her too, which is hilarious, but obviously I just kept it. I mean she'd understand it if she read it but I don't think she would really get the extent to which it's pure propaganda. They wanna recruit these hybrids as easily-led sympathetic mouthpieces to parrot their own viewpoint-- you know how it is. She deserves better than being used as somebody's pawn.

we really ought to sexualize transition more and that he's horny all the time from the testosterone ofc. horny/hungry/sweaty/face down rutting his sensitive little tdick against a pillow feeling the increasing pudginess of his belly squished up against the mattress

solarpunk girlfriend parts 1/2/3 accepting the Most Boringly Het-Brained Man On Tumblr award for the first example of something sexy I can think of being "woman wearing a sundress," then immediately having to forfeit the award due to subsequent explanation that I find the deficiencies and elisions in her politics sexually attractive because they are exploitable

updates on your cyborg girlfriend tbh if you have a robot or sufficiently-cyborg girlfriend and you're not regularly trying to get in there to get finer-tuned control I think you're doing her a disservice. if it is at all possible for someone to mind-control her they eventually will. take on this responsibility yourself and get there first.

mothboy colonialism the jewel of the collection is the mothboy mounted to the back wall, shackled behind the plexiglass with their hands above their head to better display the musculature of the specimen. a short heavy chain hangs between the leg irons, almost touching the polished wood beneath; the diaphanous wings are spread wide and pinned back with two dozen long t-pins, arranged precisely as not to obscure the view of them.

Click here to disobey. do you see how it erodes the capacity for genuine dissent? do you see how reinforcing the lesson that you can Choose Disobedience, Click Here is a wonderful way of capturing more and more of the energy and organization that could otherwise be used to do things that might actually loosen your grip? to narrow their perception of viable methods of escape to a tactic that will leave them marked and isolated and digestible? does it turn you on?

cal's take on the "drug that makes you fat" feedism trope anyway 'ts like catnip to her. who would not daydream about declawing him and keeping him as a trophy. he's soooo paranoid about accidentally taking a good few doses of this little concoction in his food. it's not like it'll make you forget about this little crusade! at worst you'll put on a few pounds and find yourself with a bit more of a french fry habit. what's the harm, hm? is it really worth being such a conspiracist? sorry, with a schedule like hers the only time she's available to talk this week is for a lunch meeting, but she knows a good place...

rabbitgirl considers collaborating with the occupiers She was raised with the standards that rabbits should be slender and quiet and quick, none of which she has ever met, even in childhood. But by the weasels that remain to keep order she is constantly singled out for jealousy-inducing special treatment; she luxuriates in being the one who is always afforded extra food or leniency or the clothes and jewelry of the invaders that fancy themselves their new masters, the vole-pelt cloak and the heavy wool skirt with its gleaming brass buttons and promises to keep her warm through the coming winter.

forcefem admin friendly good-cop admin at the forcefem reeducation facility who has a lighter touch censoring your letters home and lets you sneak in your silly masculine action movies and nods along when you insist you'll never submit but does record it all in your file just so i can let medical know which of you needs a little extra pharmaceutical attention

"deradicalization" i really have to eventually write some horror-adjacent ""deradicalization"" fic because I have thought about it a few too many times. i would have to put a bit of thought into what sort of political angle i want to come at it from, because while the obvious choice is overt fascism i think this could be a lot more interesting if it's not all that different from a modern liberal democracy. you do not need to look very hard to find some insane things the FBI has done infiltrating leftist organizations/COINTELPRO/etc. following some sort of major domestic unrest i think throwing a bunch of only tangentially involved blue-haired college students and disaffected youths at some sort of pseudo-mandatory (ie: not literally mandatory because that brings a court case upon you, but something like your driver's license or returning to college for the college kids is gated behind it) """therapy""" intended to remove them from the "cult" they have gotten themselves into.

[republicsecurity]

A Policy of Non-Punitive Handling of Errors

As the two paramedics sat in the break room, their eyes moved across the familiar pages of the training handbook. The words that had once seemed mundane and necessary were now taking on a different hue, a veil lifting to reveal a deeper understanding of the changes they had undergone.

"Listen to this," R5M3L said, his finger tracing the lines. "It says here that the neuro-based conditioning aims to promote 'enhanced team cohesion and minimized individualistic tendencies.' I mean, we knew that, but now it sounds so... orchestrated."

S7N1A leaned closer, his brow furrowing. "And this section about 'Enhanced Emotional Control.' They make it sound like a virtue, but it's basically just controlling our emotional responses to suit their goals."

"Yeah, it's like they've turned us into machines," R5M3L muttered. "Even our emotional reactions are engineered to fit their idea of the perfect paramedic."

S7N1A's gaze darkened as he continued reading. "Look at this part about 'Encouraging Non-Conflictual Communication.' It's all about suppressing disagreements and maintaining a harmonious facade. No wonder we never argue anymore, even when we used to have differing opinions."

"And the part about 'Minimized Desire for Personal Relationships Outside the Organization,'" R5M3L said with a bitter chuckle. "They've managed to isolate us from our families and friends, all in the name of 'team unity.'"

S7N1A closed the handbook, a mix of anger and realization in his eyes. "We've been conditioned to believe that all of this is for our own good, for the greater mission. But really, it's about control and conformity."

R5M3L nodded, his expression determined. "We've got to start questioning this, talking to others, raising awareness about what's really happening."

S7N1A's lips curled into a determined smile. "Agreed. We might have been conditioned, but that doesn't mean we can't break free from it. It's time to reclaim our individuality."

In Control

In the dimly lit control room, the AI system's alert caught the attention of JK65R and IO3SS, both of them on duty supervisors within the Corps. The screen displayed a summary of the conversation between S7N1A and R5M3L, highlighting their discussion about the training handbook and their growing resentment of the conditioning's effects.

JK65R's brow furrowed as he studied the text on the screen. "This is concerning. We can't afford any deviations from the established protocols."

IO3SS nodded in agreement. "Absolutely. Our strength is built on compliance and unity. Anything that threatens that stability must be addressed promptly. But we should keep in mind the Corps Policy of non-punitive handling of errors. We must offer the chance of improvement.”

The AI system offered suggested actions based on its analysis of the situation. "Recommendation: Initiate a targeted modification to reinforce adherence to protocols and suppress dissenting thoughts."

JK65R tapped a few buttons on the console, adjusting the settings for S7N1A and R5M3L's next scheduled conditioning session. "Let's increase the intensity of the motivational reinforcement and tweak the emotional control parameters."

IO3SS leaned closer to the screen, reviewing the changes. "And make sure to emphasise the consequences of deviating from the prescribed behaviour, also let them train harder. We can't let this spread among the ranks."

The AI system acknowledged the commands with a beep, its algorithms calculating the optimal adjustments. "Modifications applied. Conditioning session for subjects S7N1A and R5M3L scheduled."

In the Chamber

I parked the first response car, exchanged some casual banter with the guys. Then I went to the chow hall for a quick dinner. They had some mashed vegetarian stew and the dispenser gave me my serving. As I sat down, I met BH89L who was on conditioning chamber duty today and would most likely put me through meat grinder later as well.

BH89L: Hey S7N1A, how was your shift today?

S7N1A: (grunts) The usual. Responded to a couple of calls, nothing too exciting. You know how it is.

BH89L: Yeah, I hear you. (pauses) So, I heard you're scheduled for conditioning today.

S7N1A: (nods) Yep, it's that time again. I'll be heading to the chamber right after this break. How's your week been, BH89L? Back in the conditioning chambers, I assume?

BH89L: (sighs) Yeah, I'm on chamber duty this week. It's been... interesting. You know how it is, trying to keep everyone calm and comfortable before the big plunge.

S7N1A: (smirks) Yeah, I remember my last session. It's like they're trying to lull you into a false sense of security with those friendly conscripts.

BH89L: (chuckles) Well, it's all part of the job. We want you guys to be as relaxed as possible. Makes the whole process smoother.

S7N1A: (raises an eyebrow) Smooth, huh? More like surreal. Sometimes, I can't help but wonder what's really going on in those sessions.

BH89L: (leans in closer) You and me both, S7N1A. But we're just cogs in the machine, doing our part to keep the Republic running. What happens in those chambers is above our pay grade, if you catch my drift.

S7N1A: (nods) Yeah, I get it. Anyway, got to finish up here and head for my appointment. Wish me luck.

BH89L: Good luck, S7N1A. Remember, just relax and let the system do its thing. See you on the other side.

S7N1A: (smiles wryly) Thanks, BH89L. I'll try to enjoy the ride.

Out of the chamber

S7N1A stumbled out of the conditioning system, feeling like he'd been dragged through a mental swamp. The straps were released by a fellow conscript, and for a moment, he just stood there, trying to shake off the disorienting haze that clouded my mind. 

It was a feeling he hadn't experienced since those grueling days of Basic Medical Training.

"What did they do this time?" He managed to mumble, his voice sounding distant and detached even to my own ears.

The fellow conscript, who ran the system, glanced at him with an expressionless face. "Extended motivational reinforcement. Reinforcement of adherence to protocols."

The conscript's features shrouded by the subtle light of the chamber. "You're in the process of recalibrating, recovering from the conditioning. It's normal to feel a bit foggy."

S7N1A's brows furrowed, a veil of uncertainty shrouding his thoughts. "Recalibrating?" The word tasted strange on his tongue, as if he was grappling with a concept just beyond his grasp.

Right. Of course. Because in this meticulously controlled corps, everything had to be reinforced, double-checked, and stamped with obedience, he thought. As if they thought we were all mindless drones that needed constant reminders of what we were supposed to be.

S7N1A couldn't help but let out a bitter chuckle, though it sounded more like static than genuine amusement. "Ah, how could I forget? Just in case I start thinking for myself, right?"

The conscript's gaze remained fixed on him, unwavering and but with a expression of a little bit of of sympathy. "Protocol compliance is essential for the success of the mission." The conscript patted S7N1A head with his gloved fingers, a short feeling of content flushed through S7N1A.

"Yeah, I know," S7N1A muttered, feeling a wave of frustration wash over him. It was like trying to fight against a current that was determined to pull him in a direction S7N1A didn't want to go. But at the same time, S7N1A knew he couldn't afford to resist. Not here. Not now.

As S7N1A turned to leave, the conscript's voice followed him like a distant echo. "Have some rest, S7N1A."

S7N1A nodded vaguely, his mind still swimming in a sea of programmed directives. "Yeah, you too."

With each step, S7N1A could feel the conditioning settling back into place, reinforcing the walls around his thoughts, smoothing out any rough edges of dissent. He was back on track, a cog in the machine, following orders without question.

R5M3L stumbled likewise out of the conditioning chamber, his head spinning with a disorienting mix of thoughts and directives. He hadn't felt this detached since the early days of his training, when everything was a blur of conditioning and simulations.

"Hey, are you okay?" another conscript asked, offering a steadying hand.

R5M3L blinked, trying to focus on the face in front of him. "Yeah, I think so. It's just... the conditioning hit me harder this time."

The conscript nodded sympathetically. “Yes yours has been tweaked a little. Something about reinforcing adherence to protocols."

Running Smoothly

S7N1A and R5M3L found themselves jogging alongside in their red training suits, weighted down by additional weight in their plate carriers during the mandatory morning physical training routine. The rhythmic pounding of their feet on the track seemed to create a steady beat for their conversation.

"You felt it too, didn't you?" S7N1A panted, his voice a mixture of frustration and confusion.

R5M3L nodded, his breath coming in heavy exhales. "Yeah, that conditioning session was... different. I mean, I've been through a lot of them, but this one..."

"It was like they cranked up the control knob," S7N1A said, frustration evident in his tone. "I felt like I’m on autopilot the whole time. And those thoughts... those thoughts weren't even mine."

R5M3L's jaw clenched as he nodded again. "I know what you mean. It's like they're digging deeper into our minds again, manipulating our very thoughts and feelings."

S7N1A's brow furrowed. "For what purpose, though? I thought the conditioning was supposed to make us better paramedics, more compliant, more dedicated. But this... it's something else."

"Maybe they're trying to push us even further," R5M3L mused. "To make us so devoted to the system that we can't even question it."

S7N1A let out a frustrated breath. "It's working, though, isn't it? I mean, look at us. We're standing here, talking about our own conditioning as if it's some distant concept. We should be outraged, fighting against it."

S7N1A's gaze turned introspective. "I remember a time when I questioned things, when I had doubts about the system. But now... it's like those doubts have been silenced, replaced with blind allegiance."

R5M3L's determination seemed to intensify. "Maybe the key is to find those fragments of doubt, to reconnect with the part of us that questioned. If we can remember what it felt like to think for ourselves, maybe we can start to unravel this conditioning."

The coach's booming voice cut through the air, breaking their conversation. "Run, paramedics! This is training, not a social gathering! Focus on your pace and form, or do you want to end up as flabby as a civilian?"

With a shared grimace, they picked up their pace and focused on the rhythm of their steps, the rush of wind in their ears, and the relentless pressure of the conditioning that still gripped them.

S7N1A's shoulders sagged slightly. "It won't be easy, though. They've honed this system over years, perfected it to mold us into their ideal paramedics.

The coach's booming voice cut through the air, sharp and commanding. "Alright, S7N1A and R5M3L! Drop and give me fifty push-ups, now!"

S7N1A and R5M3L exchanged a glance, the seriousness of their conversation momentarily replaced by the urgent need to follow orders. Without hesitation, they both hit the ground with gloved hands, their arms bearing their weight as they began the first push-up.

The coach paced back and forth, his arms folded across his broad chest, eyes sharp as they scanned each paramedic's form. "Chest to the ground, R5M3L! S7N1A, keep your back straight!"

Gritting their teeth, they pushed through the demanding exercise, muscles burning with each repetition. The coach's shouts continued to punctuate the air, pushing them to give their all. As the count reached thirty, R5M3L's arms trembled, but he forced himself to soldier on, his determination unwavering.

S7N1A's breathing grew heavy, a fine sheen of sweat glistening on his shaved scalp. With each push-up, his mind oscillated between thoughts of resistance and the immediate task at hand. Despite the physical strain, his conviction to challenge the conditioning remained steadfast.

"Forty-five! Five more, you're almost there!" the coach barked, his voice a mixture of encouragement and challenge. 

As the final push-up was completed, they collapsed to the ground, their chests heaving with exertion. The coach's expression shifted from strict discipline to a nod of approval. "Good work, both of you. Remember, strength isn't just physical, it's obedience to orders and following protocols.”

[anarchistettin]

something that kinda sucks but is also a kind of strength happens after you pass 40: you realize some traumas and discomforts are going to take a long time to recover from, and that you have to get through that time - you have to live it.

Someone just died, you just got evicted from your family home, you just got divorced, you just got a diagnosis and it ain't good news.

Something that's been quietly occurring to me lately is the dread of the time, roughly five years from now, when 12% or so of the moral tyrants currently pretending to be "woke" or "progressive" will come out of their stupor. It's happened so many times in my life that the indices of it are BLARING LOUD. An emotional response to a "correction" that says "I know that's true and in five years I'll stop revenging myself on you, maybe, but fuck you for suggesting my bloodthirst for hypothetical strangers is anything other than a very healthful coping Mechanism"

this kind of interaction didn't used to be perceived at that level - I'm pretty sure, in this society, that it's a consequence of regular web use - an inevitable outcome of being observed too much of the time, at a level of the brain that wasn't evolved for ever being under scrutiny.

natural sorting explains a lot about why tumblr didn't die when it didn't, who's using it, and what's happening to them over time - it's not a moral issue at this level, it's just a neuro/biological one

I'll have to make a decision about it! sucks to be isolated but it sucks worse to be involuntarily converted into a right winger all het up about HBO's latest cop/military propaganda, or Disney's latest love letter to cosmopolitan assimilation …

having life-or-death passionate feelings about fanfiction was funny five years ago; five years hence a fraction of its biggest victim/perps will just begin to start assessing the damage they've been doing to themselves and others. Oof they will have to write about it. Others will respond with equal or greater emotion; schisms of moral value will form, arguments will resume. Reaction - that thing that makes "reactionary" a bad thing to be - will continue to pile dirt on fucking comprehension.

Comprehension is, in the mind of the moralist, equivalent to perpetration. Childlike obedience to an unexamined (often vague) code will be instinctively viewed as morally superior to any philosophy, any impulse to argue, any sign of dissent or disagreement.

Moral tyrants never stop hurting people, because they believe they're doing it for your own good, and instead of getting tired, they get obsessed.

People who are already behaving online as if their toddler-level morality is religious law will need rehab, social support, and a lot of forgiveness if they ever come out of it. Unscientifically I reckon 12% or less will, just based on personal experience. I won't be able to give it to them myself, it will have to come from people willing to be viciously and repeatedly attacked for having the temerity to disagree with their fledgling (straight up fucking christian nazi) ethics.

The reality on Earth requires banding together. Vicious, small-minded, puritanical, and careless condemnation hasn't led to solidarity, safety, or capability.

The idea that crusading mobs of moralizing scolds "represent" the "future" is as dead as the idea that dems would form a barrier against fascism. "All the old people dying off" just leaves a gobsmacking number of proud violent fascists and bigots - who've convinced themselves they're "progressive" - and no one remaining who's skilled or experienced in any way at explaining why "ha ha making up a guy to get angry at" is dangerous behavior. Armageddon level shittiness.

[aleesblog]

Yorkshire's contribution to British Neurology

Occasional essay

1Department of Neurology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK 2National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK

3Reta Lila Weston Institute for Neurological Studies, UCL, London, UK

Correspondence to

Professor Andrew J Lees, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N3BG, UK;

andrew.lees@ucl.ac.uk

Received 16 May 2012 Revised 10 August 2012 Accepted 21 August 2012 Published Online First

28 September 2012

John M S Pearce,1 Andrew J Lees2,3

INTRODUCTION

In a paper to the Royal Society in 1939, Lord Adrian (1889–1977) described the era between 1870 and 1900 as ‘a classical period in the history of medicine, the period when neurology became a science.’1 Spillane similarly referred to ‘ a memor- able decade [1874–84] in the history of Neurology.’2 3

Although the birth of modern British Neurology is justifiably linked with the opening of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in 1860, scientific neurological research could fairly be stated to have begun in Yorkshire. Compston observed:

In many respects, the modern study of disordered brain function in Britain has its origins in Wakefield, Yorkshire. This was where James Crichton-Browne turned the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum [WRPLA] into a research institute that attracted, amongst others, Sir David Ferrier and John Hughlings Jackson.4

In this paper, we would like to suggest that the influence of Yorkshire in the history of British Neurology actually began before this period with Thomas Laycock at the York Medical School. A remarkable concatenation of events stemming from the pioneering work in mental illness of the Tukes in York, the confirmation of cerebral localisa- tion in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum (WRPLA), and crucially Laycock’s romantic neuro- science paved the way for a major leap forward in the study of nervous disease in England in the nineteenth century. Many of the leading Yorkshire lights in this movement were members of a Nonconformist minority and contributed to both the lasting neurological tradition of the Royal London Hospital and the success in establishing the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic as a cradle for neurological thought in England.

THOMAS LAYCOCK (1812–1876) Thomas Laycock is remembered today by neurolo- gists as one of the formative influences5 behind the neurological inclinations of Jonathan Hutchinson and John Hughlings Jackson during his time in York, and later in Edinburgh, on David Ferrier and James Crichton-Browne.

Laycock was the son of a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, born in Wetherby on 12 August 1812, a small Yorkshire market town on the Great North road (A1.) He attended the Methodist Woodhouse Grove School, and at the age of 15 years served as apprentice surgeon-apothecary to the Spence brothers in Bedale with the Wesleyan family

connection covering his indenture fees. In 1833, he left Yorkshire for the newly opened University College, London (UCL) to complete his medical education.

Referred to by Thomas Arnold as ‘that Godless institution in Gower Street’, London University had resulted from strong pressure and financial support from Nonconformists. These ‘Dissenters’ had planned a university for those excluded by Oxford and Cambridge, but also to offer subjects not previ- ously recognised in the university curriculum.

After his studies in London, Laycock spent 3 months in Paris with Pierre Louis and then a spell in Göttingen where he received his doctorate degree, summa cum laude, in 1839. On his return to the York County Hospital, he was appointed lec- turer at York Medical School and physician to the York Dispensary. At this time, York had a highly competitive medical establishment, but Laycock’s teaching skills were admired at the medical school and at Yorkshire’s many medical societies (figure 1).

In York, he had contact with Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895) at the Quaker-founded Retreat. Laycock’s studies led to papers on the reflex func- tion of the brain and periodic illness (proleptics). He also wrote articles on hysteria emphasising the ovarian influence. Following Robert Whytt, Johann August Unzer (1727–1799) and Jirí Procháska (1749–1820), Laycock considered that the nervous system was a continuous series of structures that obeyed the laws of reflex function:

The brain, although the organ of consciousness, was subject to the laws of reflex action and in this respect it did not differ from other ganglia of the nervous system.6

This revolutionary idea supported by the experi- ments of Sechenov can be later traced in the experiments of Pavlov, Ferrier and Sherrington. From his Museum Street home, Laycock sent this paper to William Alison, of Edinburgh. A decade later he was appointed Alison’s successor.

After his controversial appointment to the Chair in Edinburgh in 1855, he met David Ferrier (1843– 1928). Laycock’s notions of the unconscious would influence Ferrier’s own ideas expressed in The Functions of the Brain (1876).

He was an idealist by disposition whose specula- tions generated much controversy, but there is no doubt about his abilities to teach and inspire his students at York Medical School (opened in 1834 and closed in 1862). Two of his protégés, Jonathan Hutchinson and Hughlings Jackson would follow in his footsteps in studying the workings of the brain when they later moved from York to the capital.

THE WRPLA, WAKEFIELD

Dismayed by the death of one Hannah Mills in appalling conditions in the York Lunatic Asylum in 1790, the Quaker, York coffee and tea merchant William Tuke (1732–1822) and the Society of Friends, founded The Retreat in 1792, which led the world in the humane treatment of the mentally ill. Many of its inmates harboured organic brain diseases although the idea of brain disease causing mental symptoms was not generally recognised.7

The WRPLA was sited in Wakefield, on East Moor; Samuel Tuke gave advice about its planning and management. On 20 October 1814, the Leeds Magistrates resolved that an ‘Asylum for the Lunatic Paupers’ of the Riding should be built as speed- ily as possible in the neighbourhood of Wakefield. It opened on 23 November 1818, housing about 450 lunatics and epileptics (figure 2).

However, it was not until James Crichton-Browne (1840– 1938) was appointed as its fifth Director in 1866 that it became a vibrant and innovative focus for neurological research. Nineteenth century ‘alienists’ (psychiatrists or ‘mad doctors’) were regarded as second-rate physicians by the London medical establishment, so that apart from a few physicians, like Bentley Todd, Marshall Hall and Russell Reynolds, interest in diseases and the functions of the brain was not fashionable in the capital. Crichton-Browne was born in Edinburgh, son of WAF Browne, first superintendent of Crichton Royal Asylum, Dumfries, and read Medicine at Edinburgh. At the early age of 26 years, he was appointed director of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, by which time Hughlings Jackson had already pro- pounded the concept of cerebral localisation. Like Jackson, Crichton-Browne had been exposed to the teachings of Laycock; both regarded cerebral asymmetry as an evolutionary achievement, distorted in insanity.

In Wakefield, Crichton-Browne established a pathology laboratory and started annual open days and ‘conversaziones’ with distinguished visiting speakers. Most importantly, he provided Ferrier with a laboratory and a rich supply of primates, pigeons, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs and cats to test, experimentally, Jackson’s views on hemiplegia and epilepsy. At this time, Ferrier was at King’s College as professor of Forensic Medicine and assistant physician at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic working alongside Jackson.

He used low-intensity faradic stimulation on the cortices of rabbits, cats, dogs and macaques, and provided a precise map of motor functions. When he ablated the same cortical area, loss of the function elicited by stimulation occurred. High-intensity stimulation of the motor cortex evoked repetitive movements in the neck, face and limbs resembling epilepsy, probably due to spread of the focus of stimulation: an interpretation identi- cal to the clinical deductions of Jackson in his patients with epilepsy. Within a remarkable few months of his arrival in Wakefield in the spring of 1873, Ferrier had established localisa- tion of cerebral motor ‘centres’ by experiments of cortical stimulation and ablation. The results were rapidly published in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Reports, in the British Medical Journal, and at the Royal Society in 1874.11 Later, in 1876, Ferrier dedicated his book ‘The Functions of the Brain’ to:

... Dr Hughlings Jackson, who from a clinical and pathological standpoint anticipated many of the more important results of recent experimental investigation into the functions of the cere- bral hemispheres, This work is dedicated as a mark of the author’s esteem and admiration.

Extending the work of Fritsch and Hitzig,12 it was Ferrier’s critical experiments in Wakefield that were to provide the scien- tific basis for cerebral localisation and led him to observe in 1883

... we are within measurable distance of the successful treat- ment by surgery of some of the most distressing and otherwise hopeless forms of intracranial disease.

Such was the impact of the Wakefield research that between 1871 and 1876, 62 of the 79 articles published in Crichton-Browne’s newly established West Riding Medical Reports came from work conducted at the Asylum itself. It included contributions on epilepsy from John Hughlings Jackson, and on cerebral localisation from David Ferrier. Allbutt published his work on ophthalmoscopy at the asylum and his use of brief electrical stimulation on the head and neck of around 20 inmates. Following Crichton-Browne’s resignation and move to London in 1876 to become Lord Chancellor’s Visitor in Lunacy, the West Riding Medical Reports ceased but a meeting in the capital attended by Crichton-Browne,13 Ferrier, Jackson, and the alienist Bucknill led to the creation of the world’s first neuroscientific journal, Brain, in April 1878.

Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913), can be considered a founder of neurological research at the London Hospital, Whitechapel. He was born at Red House, Quayside—within a stone’s throw of Selby Abbey, the second of 10 children born to the Quaker, Jonathan Hutchinson, a middleman in the flax trade. Hutchinson was apprenticed in 1845 to Caleb Williams of York, an apothecary and surgeon; He attended York Medical School between 1846 and 1850, (7 years before Jackson). After graduation, Hutchinson wrote of his teacher:

Dr Laycock: a real treat to listen to—some good observations against materialism.

In 1859, he moved south as assistant surgeon to the London Hospital, and helped found the New Sydenham Society. His inspiration in the capital was James Paget. For a time he shared lodgings in Charterhouse Square with fellow Quaker, Daniel Hack Tuke. Later, Hutchinson and his wife took Jackson into their home at 14 Finsbury Circus and the two men became life- long friends14 Hutchinson also helped Jackson, co-opting him as a medical journalist reporting meetings and cases for the Medical Times and Gazette.

Hutchinson earned eponymous fame with Hutchinson’s triad: nerve deafness, keratitis, pegged incisors, which character- ise congenital syphilis, and Hutchinson’s fixed dilated pupil of temporal lobe coning. He also gave one of the earliest accounts of cranial arteritis, as well as detailing some previously unde- scribed skin and eye diseases.

He became President of the Royal College of Surgeons and was knighted, but never forgot his roots, and forged links in London with several other colleagues born in Yorkshire including Ramskill, the first physician to be appointed to the National Hospital, Queen Square and Broadbent. After both he and Jackson had achieved glittering success he revealingly wrote:

Our lives were in many features remarkably parallel. We were both of us born in country districts in Yorkshire, and were both educated, so to speak, on the spot. This applies not only to school teaching but to professional matters, for in each case all that sufficed for our examinations for diplomas was obtained at the medical school which then existed in the city of York. In this city each of us served his apprenticeship, and in each case, after a very brief stay in London for the purpose of obtaining the diploma, we went back to our native city, ...

THE WHITE ROSE CONNECTION AT THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE CURE OF THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC In the second half of the nineteenth century there was a prolif- eration of small specialist hospitals in central London, most were denigrated by the medical establishment and by the editor of the Lancet. The Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic at 24, Queen Square, opened in March 1860 with only six beds,15 but differed from most of these other boutique hospitals in that it was a charitable institution, founded by two sisters with no medical connections. Jabez Ramskill (1825–1897) had looked after one of the Chandler sisters and was appointed in 1860 as one of the first two physicians to the new hospital. Born in Leeds and trained at Guys Hospital, he had already worked with Hutchinson at the Metropolitan Hospital and London Hospital. Ramskill was instrumental in persuading the management of the new hospital to open its doors to epileptics. Two years after his appointment, he also recommended his younger colleague, Jackson, for the post of assistant physician at Queen Square. Ramskill was a competent clinician, and enabled Jackson to develop an interest in aphasia and epilepsy by allowing access to his patients. The other first staff appointment was the Mauritian, Charles Brown-Séquard (1817–1894), whose appointment to the new hospital gave it a cachet that would attract other neuroscientists like Jackson and Ferrier to follow in his footsteps and consolidate the hospital as a clinical research centre.

Other early appointments at the new hospital included Charles Bland Radcliffe (1822–1889) who trained in Leeds, and the Nonconformist, John Russell Reynolds (1828–1896), who had worked in Leeds and had strong family connections there. They were followed by another Yorkshireman, the antievolu- tionist, Charles Elam (1824–1889), who had been born in Birstall, West Yorkshire and studied at the Medical School, and Sir William Gowers (1845–1915) whose mother was from Bentley near Doncaster, and whose wife, Mary Baines, an in-law of Reynolds, was born in Leeds. In addition to their Yorkshire connections, a number of these early Queen Square staff appointments, including Gowers and Reynolds, came from Nonconformist backgrounds.

John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911)16 is the foremost figure in 19th century British Neurology. Although not always understanding his ideas, his younger colleagues at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic revered him and he became known as the ‘Father of British Neurology.’17 Jackson was born on 4 April 1835 at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, a small homestead between York and Knaresborough.18 The youngest of four children, his father, Samuel Jackson (1806–1858), was a yeoman farmer and brewer. His mother, Sarah Hughlings (1807/1808–1836), was daughter of a Welsh tax collector from Llanfintangel Rhyithon. Aged just 15, he began his studies at York Medical School, apprenticed on 20 October 1850 to Dr William Charles Anderson at 23, Stonegate. There, Jackson was exposed to the ‘romantic science’ of Thomas Laycock which led to his lifelong love for philosophy and the study of neurology. His later excur- sions into the relation between brain physiology and mental illness (‘insanity ’) may also have stemmed from another teacher, Daniel Hack Tuke, grandson of William Tuke who founded the York Retreat.

Jackson’s early clinical experience was gained in the York County Hospital and Dispensary. He completed his training at London’s St Bartholomew’s Hospital and qualified LSA on 10 April 1856. He returned to the York Dispensary in 1856, as a house surgeon before moving back to London in 1860. Brown Séquard advised him that ‘if he wished to attain anything he must keep to the nervous system.’20 In 1862, he was appointed assistant physician to The National Hospital, and in 1863 assistant physician to the London Hospital, and full Physician in 1874. He was much gratified by election as FRS in 1878. Hutchinson significantly recalled:

The fact that he was remembered by the University of Leeds in his later life was one of which he frequently reminded me and which added I am sure, much to his happiness in old-age.21

His papers on epilepsy, the hierarchical dissolution of nervous system functions, localisation of brain functions and aphasia have been widely praised and most of their key findings accepted.20 His reflections always stemmed from his minute analysis of clinical phenomena, and it is inaccurate to look upon him as a thinker rather than a doer, and equally wrong to paint him as an unexceptional clinician.

Hughlings Jackson, writing of insanity said in 1881: ‘We require a rational generalisation so wide as to show on the physical side relations of diseases of the mind, which are for physicians nothing but diseases of the highest centres, to all other diseases of the nervous system.” Despite Jackson’s advice, many at Queen Square seemed to abhor investigation into disorders of the mind, and a schism between neurology and psychiatry emerged in England.

Henry Maudsley (1835–1918), however, shared Jackson’s views.22 Born on an isolated farm near Settle in the North Riding of Yorkshire, he studied at Giggleswick School and grad- uated at UCL, winning 10 gold medals. After qualification, Maudlsey worked briefly at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum. In 1865, he obtained a position as physician to the West London Hospital. Maudsley was later appointed professor of Medical Jurisprudence at UCL in 1869.

Throughout his life, he considered himself a physician rather than a ‘mad doctor’. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and delivered the Goulstonian Lectures in 1870, on ‘Body and Mind.’ This influenced Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872).

He published20 many highly regarded books. His name is per- petuated by his collaboration in 1907 with the London County Council to found the Maudsley Hospital to which he gave £40 000. It was completed in 1915, and in 1948, merged with Bethlem Royal Hospital.

Born in the same year as Jackson, both men were introverts and became rather reclusive in later life, both were criticised for

impenetrable prose, and yet, 100 years after their death their respective legacies continue to inform current thinking and practice in the neurosciences.

CONCLUDING REMARKS

The inspirational teaching of Thomas Laycock in York, and the crucial confirmation of cerebral localisation by one of his stu- dents, David Ferrier at the WRPLA, were important landmarks relating the county of Yorkshire to the development of neurology as a science in Britain. Some of Laycock’s other Yorkshire-born students, such as Jackson and Hutchinson, were also highly influential in the development of neurology at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic and the London Hospital.

Author note Based on an invited paper (author JMSP) given to the Association of British Neurologist’s meeting, Newcastle upon Tyne, October 2011 and inspired by the 150th anniversary of the National Hospital, Queen Square in 2010. This is an attenuated version of a longer essay, available from the authors.

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[arco-pluris]

I see that the usage of neurodiversity encompasses both neuro-atypical and neuro-typical people, plus "mental health" and antimanicomial fight (superclass of mad pride). But neurodivergency/neurodivergence seems to be the most accurate of the three (-a/typical, -divergent, -diverse). I agree with @welcome-to-the-petting-zoo here. Once I created diversephrenia, phrenidivergent and phrenidiverse, from an etymological sense that psych- and neur- are separated things to be encompassed be phreni-/-phrenia, which means mind/mentality, going beyond psyche/psychology (immaterial) and neurality (physical/corporeal).

I don’t think that many people understand that Neurotypical isn’t a thing. EVERYONE has mental illnesses or issues. It just means that some are better than hiding or just don’t want to share. I have been yelled at for being “neurotypical” when, in fact, I’m not. I have ADD and that makes me not “neurotypical”. I’ve had friends who seem “neurotypical” but are actually severely depressed, extremely anxious, or have some other type of illness that they are medicated for. NOBODY is normal. So please stop using this word people because it discounts those that are taking meds to seem normal and those that are trying their hardest to not share their issues because it makes them uncomfortable.

[gatheringbones]

[“Prison activists in a variety of locales criticized behavior-modification programs for women, objecting to both their involuntary character and their harmful consequences. At stake was the propensity of corrections officials to enlist biomedical knowledge and practice in the service of quelling dissent and eroding constitutional safeguards for prisoners’ rights.

Medical humanities scholar Jonathan Metzl has shown that cultural and political discourses about racial protest were imprinted on medical diagnoses of mental illness in the 1960s and 1970s, and “new ‘psychochemical’ technologies of control merged with concerns about the ‘uncontrolled’ nature of urban unrest.” As activists involved with the black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, antiwar, and Red Power and Brown Power movements were sent to jails and prisons on charges linked to their political activities, prison administrators registered an acute sense of concern that prisoner dissent was aided and abetted by imprisoned radicals and the larger social movements with which they were affiliated.

For example, the warden of McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary in Washington State, speaking at a 1969 meeting of the American Correctional Association, identified the “fomenters” of what he called the “new rebellion” as “former prisoners, militants, far-out liberals, subversives, and even a few clergymen, educators, and social workers.” Prison administrators identified special control units (which in some cases were called “alternative program units”) and attendant behavior-modification regimens as a frontline strategy for suppressing dissent. Black, Latina/o, and indigenous prisoner organizers were routinely targeted for isolation and treatment. Prison psychiatrists underwrote the expansion of these practices by investing control units with medical expertise. As sensory deprivation, psychotropic drugs, and electroconvulsive shock therapy eclipsed the psychoanalytic and education-based approaches that had predominated in the 1950s, they “muddled commonplace distinctions between what constituted punishment, rehabilitation, and torture.”

Behavior modification contributed to what the sociologist Alondra Nelson refers to as the “biologization of violence” in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1967, psychiatrist Frank Ervin and neurosurgeons William Sweet and Vernon Mark, all affiliated with the Boston-based Neuro-Research Foundation, argued in the Journal of the American Medical Association that, in addition to the structural inequalities that spurred the black urban uprisings of the mid-1960s, “brain disease” was also to blame for “urban violence.”

In 1971, these proponents and practitioners of psychosurgery received a combined total of $600,000 ($3.6 million in today’s dollars) from the National Institute for Mental Health and the Department of Justice���s Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to “develop a way to identify and control persons who commit ‘senseless’ violence, as well as those ‘who are constantly at odds with the law for minor crimes, assaults and constantly in and out of jail.’” That same year, Boston newspapers reported that geneticists from Massachusetts General Hospital had collected fingerprints and blood samples from selected women prisoners at MCI-Framingham as part of a screening program designed to detect women’s genetic capacity for violence.”]

emily l. thuma, from all our trials: prisons, policing, and the feminist fight to end violence, 2019

[wewalktheearthblog]

“To me the brain is the one safe place for freedom of thought, of fantasies, and for dissent,” says Nita Farahany, a professor at Duke University who specializes in neuro-ethics. “We’re getting close to crossing the final frontier of privacy in the absence of any protections whatsoever.”

[awyeahitssam]

It’s a struggle to keep his eyes open. Every blink seems to drag out to minutes. He might be losing time.

Tony opens his eyes…

Peter’s above him, on hands and knees, eyes red-rimmed, smile tremulous as he caught Tony’s gaze. “Mr. Stark, you’re okay. You’re okay, you’ve got to be okay…”

Tony smiles helplessly, reaching up. It hurts. He touches the boy’s face, amazed to feel it solid beneath his hand.

Laughs, soft and pained. “You’re alive,” he murmurs, closing his eyes slowly. “What a relief.”

Tony opens his eyes…

Rhodey is touching his shoulder, shaking him lightly. “Tones. Please, Tony, c’mon, don’t do this to me man. You got the kid back, you did it, please don’t pull this self-sacrificial bullshit, Tony…”

“S’kay, sugar muffin,” Tony slurs. “‘S all ‘kay now.”

Tony opens his eyes…

Vision stares down at him, hand pressed to his forehead. “Don’t do this again,” he whispers, pleads. “There is nothing worth this, Father.”

Of course there is, Tony thinks dully, mouth forming the words. You are.

Tony opens his eyes...

Strange smiles down at him. “Well done, Tony.”

Tony opens his eyes…

Bruce is bent over him, forehead creased.

“How the hell did you manage to reverse everybody else’s injuries and none of your own?” The doctor hisses at him, eyes gleaming green as strong hands press down, sending shockwaves of agony through Tony’s system. Tony’s eyes flutter shut again.

“He’s dying,” Bruce announces, voice tight. “And not even from the fucking gauntlet.”

Tony does not open his eyes.

“We must think of our people,” a familiar voice cautions. “The Garden is gone, and our supply of apples is limited.”

“He will die without it, brother,” Thor says. His voice is strong, even, without a trace of doubt or fear. He sounds like a king. “He has saved us all.”

“Very well.”

His mouth is opened, and something is poured in. Tony is too weak to splutter, too weak to choke or even swallow. A hand massages his throat until he takes the liquid by reflex rather than choice.

He is tired.

And then… he is not.

Tony opens his eyes.

Thor is kneeling beside him, hand warm and big on his shoulder.

Behind him, a group hovers. Rhodey. Peter. Vision. Bruce. Strange and Loki, for some reason.

What an odd mix, Tony thinks, dazed. His eyes linger on Peter and Vision, something settling in his chest slowly.

Alive. They’re alive. We did it.

Tony clears his throat, shrugging off Thor’s hand and pushing himself into a sitting position. He focuses on Peter, eyes narrowing, allowing a flicker of annoyance to surpass the relief.

“You’re still sixteen, right? Because you are so fucking grounded.”

Peter stares at him, wide-eyed and dumbfounded.

“Oh my God,” Rhodey laughs, bright and relieved, and look at that, he’s tearing up.

Vision swoops forward before Tony can tease him, landing on Tony’s unoccupied side and bringing a red hand to his face. “Father…” he whispers.

“Hey, Vis,” Tony smiles, taking the hand in his own. “I missed you.”

Vision crumples, bending over him and hugging him tight to his chest, long fingers pressing through his hair. “You’re okay,” he pleads.

It shakes Tony out of his surprise, makes him reach up and hug back. “I’m okay, V. It’s okay, you’re okay. You’re alive,” Tony laughs, tight and joyous, still disbelieving.

He looks over Vision’s shoulder, catching Thor’s gaze.

“We actually did it?” he asks. “All of them? Every one?”

“Aye,” Thor beams. “You did it, Anthony. For my people and yours.”

Tony looks down at his left arm, surprised to find it intact. He distinctly remembers it melting away under the gauntlet, the stench and pain of his own flesh burning apart. He moves his fingers, one by one, testing.

No nerve damage that he can detect.

“Well fuck me,” he murmurs, fascinated despite himself. Nothing aches, his head feels fine, and he’s apparently regenerated a limb. “Did someone inject me with Extremis?”

“No,” Thor insisted. “Brother thought ahead and salvaged all the golden apples of Idunn already picked before enacting Ragnarok. I have fed you one in thanks for your efforts.”

Tony’s eyes flicked to Loki. The trickster watches him with calm eyes, appearing somehow lighter than Tony had ever seen him before. Probably a byproduct of Thanos’ existence being wiped from reality.

Tony flashes him a smile, sharp and quick. “We both have the other to thank for being alive, then. Even?”

Loki’s gaze sharpens.

“It was by my decree,” Thor cautions, though whether he was talking to Tony or Loki was up for debate.

“And his sleight of hand,” Tony shrugs, still holding that green gaze. Something flickers in it, and then Loki inclines his head.

“We are even, Stark,” he agrees.

“Sweet. You can let go now, Vis. We’ll cuddle later,” he teases gently.

“My scans conclude you are healthy,” Vision says into his hair. “However, despite conclusive evidence I find myself unwilling to release you.”

Tony chuckles, running a hand over his bald head. “Alright, darling, I’m pretty sure the gauntlet wrecked all my nanotech anyway. Feel free to give me a piggyback ride to wherever’s next.”

“Certainly, sir,” Vision says, in a tone so dry and utterly JARVIS that Tony feels a pang of loss and joy combined.

“The sass,” he sighs happily, unwinding from Vision just enough for the android to turn his back.

“Uh, Tony, since when are you Vision’s dad?”

“Don’t worry, Brucie-bear, you’re technically daddy too. You just weren’t around when I was raising our boy, so I get preference.”

Vision makes a noise of dissent. “I do not believe I would refer to you as such no matter the circumstances, Dr. Banner,” the android says, somewhat tartly. “I have access to all of JARVIS’ data, and thus recall his time as Father’s AI fondly. I have no such memories of you.”

“Ah, sorry V.” Tony smirked over the android’s shoulder at Bruce. “He’s grown a bit of a grudge against you, leaving like that. You abandoned our child, babe. I expect back pay child support in the form of Science.”

“Science?” Bruce snorted.

“The only mistress I desire,” Tony said dramatically, clinging to Vision’s back like a koala when he stood. “I’m done with that magic, space altering bullshit.”

“Your mind has expanded,” Loki said, a glint of something hungry in his eyes.

Tony waved him off, making a shushing gesture.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Bruce asked, turning.

“Nope, nope, nope, nope,” Tony tsked, clicking his tongue irritably. “You’ve said time and again that you aren’t that kind of doctor. And Strange, neuro was hardly your specialty, so don’t you dare jump in. Whatever info Princess has deduced - or thinks he’s deduced - is privileged medical knowledge. Which means nunya business. Capiche?”

“Tony, I just--”

“No means no, Bruce,” Tony snapped. “I feel violated! Don’t violate my mental sanctity, that’s mind rape. Extremely uncool. Vis, make them be nice to daddy.”

“I suggest,” Vision said, sharp and cutting, “that you choose your next words very carefully, doctors, sorcerer.”

Loki actually paled, and Tony leaned forward to find the mind stone glowing from its return to the center of Vision’s forehead. It was the only stone Tony hadn’t been rid of.

Tony tsked again, raising his left hand unthinkingly to cover the stone. Instead of burning as Tony had half-come to expect, the stone cooled under his touch, tendrils of sharp fury nudging at his mind. It was inordinately simple to push the presence back. “Be calm, sweet boy. Take a breath in. Good, now hold it. And out. Again.”

Tony coaxed Vision until his breathing had steadied and the stone’s glow faded. Loki was watching him with something like wonder on his face, while Strange was narrow-eyed and Bruce still and a bit green around the gills.

“Do you need some breathing exercises as well, Bruce, or is Jolly Green coming out to say hi?”

Bruce huffed, the green receding from his skin. “I’m sorry, Tony, Vision. I didn’t mean to upset either of you, I was just… concerned.”

Tony flicked his hand dismissively. “It’s alright, I’m used to being ignored when privacy is involved. Just be a bit kinder to Vis, hm? Lack of consent sort of presses his buttons.”

“Funny considering that thing in his forehead,” Loki hissed lowly. Tony shot him a sharp look, running a finger over the stone possessively. The last time it was removed from Vision, he died. If Loki gave any indication of trying to displace it…

“Just because I willed you back to life does not mean I won’t snuff you out if you raise a finger against my family.”

Green eyes met brown and held for a taut moment.

Loki inclined his head. “I have no intention of harming your child, Stark. Just keep the Mind Stone clear of me and all will be well.”

“V does what he wants,” Tony shrugged, clinging a bit tighter to his brain baby. “That said,” he murmured into the android’s ear, “we should discuss that sparkly stone in your forehead later, Vis. For now, try to keep in mind the way us humans fear things they don’t understand.”

“You do not, Father.”

“How many times do I have to tell you I’m special before you’ll believe me?” Tony pouted.

Vision laughed, the sound low and warm. “You’ve never had to say that for me to know it.”

[science-criticaltheory]

Everything We Learned From Mary Trump’s Book by Matt Stieb

Photo: Dennis Caruso/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

So much for the suppression effort: Despite a lawsuit from the president’s brother claiming that Mary Trump’s new book violates a non-disclosure provision from 2001, details from Too Much and Never Enough poured out prior to its publication on July 14. While former national security adviser John Bolton’s recent book dives into the failures of the president’s time in office, Trump’s niece brings her focus closer to home, examining how their notoriously toxic family dynamic may have resulted in some of his less-than-admirable character traits. And unlike Bolton, Mary Trump’s volume — which sold an astounding 950,000 copies on its first day — isn’t marred by the asterisk that it should all have been testimony. Below is everything we know from interviews and pre-publication excerpts of the work that White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called a “book of falsehoods,” despite not seeing a copy of it.

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, identifies the president as a narcissist

Even those who don’t know Trump intimately have noted that he has several narcissistic traits, such as an inflated sense of his importance, a need for attention, and a lack of empathy for others. But Mary Trump, who got her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2009, claims her uncle expresses all nine clinical criteria for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.

“Nothing is ever enough,” she writes of the president. “This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be.” Elsewhere she writes that “Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuro-physical tests, that he’ll never sit for.”

She claims many of his behavioral issues stem from his relationship with his father

It’s a go-to assessment for a psychologist, but Mary Trump’s portrait of the family dynamic asserts that Fred Trump’s callous and neglectful treatment of his children is a root cause of the president’s own tendency to lash out at those around him. “By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred [Trump Sr.] perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it,” Mary Trump writes. Later, she states that her uncle’s ego “is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself.” Mary Trump adds that the president was able to navigate the family environment because “his personality served his father’s purpose. That’s what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends — ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.”

Trump allegedly cheated on his SATs

Last year, the president stayed mostly quiet as the country’s attention was drawn, briefly, to the FBI’s Operation Varsity Blues, which focused on wealthy parents bribing college admissions offices and paying for inflated test scores. In her book, Mary Trump claims that her uncle engaged in a similar practice — cheating is his “way of life” — paying a surrogate to take the SAT on his behalf, which helped him get accepted to the University of Pennsylvania. She writes that her aunt, Maryanne Trump, had been “doing his homework,” but was unable to take the college entrance test for him. “To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him,” Mary Trump writes. “Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well.”

Trump went to a movie on the night his brother died alone in the hospital

It’s been public knowledge for years that Mary Trump’s father, Freddy Trump, was ostracized in the family. “Donald is worth ten of you,” Mary Trump writes, describing an exchange in which Donald and Freddy Trump’s father shouted at his namesake in front of employees. According to the book, Freddy Trump, who suffered from alcoholism throughout his life, was sent to the hospital by himself on the night he died from an alcohol-induced heart attack at the age of 42. His brother Donald went to the movies.

Trump allegedly made a lurid comment about his niece

In the early 1990s, when Mary Trump was 29, she recalled an incident at Mar-a-Lago in which her uncle saw her in a bathing suit and said, “Holy shit, Mary. You’re stacked.”

“I was twenty-nine and not easily embarrassed, but my face reddened, and I suddenly felt self-conscious,” Mary Trump writes. “I pulled my towel around my shoulders. It occurred to me that nobody in my family, outside of my parents and brother, had ever seen me in a bathing suit.”

Trump “barely even knew” who his daughter-in-law was in 2017

In April 2017, the president’s extended family was welcomed to a dinner at the White House to celebrate the birthdays of Maryanne and Elizabeth Trump, the president’s sisters. At the dinner, Mary Trump remembers that her uncle gestured toward Eric Trump’s wife, Lara, saying that he “barely even knew who the fuck she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me.” Eric and Lara Trump had been married for eight years at that point.

Mary Trump encourages her uncle to resign

In an interview with ABC, George Stephanopoulos asked the president’s niece: “If you’re in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?”

“Resign,” Mary Trump responded, adding that the country has been exposed to a toxic dynamic that has dominated her extended family. “I saw firsthand what focusing on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people can do — the collateral damage that can be created by allowing somebody to live their lives without accountability,” she said. “And it is striking to see that continuing now on a much grander scale.”

Mary Trump alleges her uncle used racial slurs in private

In an interview with MSNBC, the president’s niece told Rachel Maddow she had personally heard the president use anti-Semitic slurs and the N-word. “Of course I did,” she said. “And I don’t think that should surprise anybody, given how virulently racist he is today.” The allegation levied against the “shithole countries” president is a common one in the promotional rounds of books about Trump: Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed that she once heard a tape of Trump using the slur, while Allen Salkin and Aaron Short reported in their 2019 book that Trump referred to The Apprentice contestant Kwame Jackson by the slur.

[xex-jade]

I was once in a cult

To preface this, the word cult in China is highly politicized, it has been engineered by the ruling party so that it triggers collective, visceral aversion and fear whenever it’s used to describe anything. So no one ever call themselves a cult. 

..

A friend of mine, whom I still admire, started telling me about this “thing” that I have to go through in 2014. It’s amazing, supposedly.

 “Oh really?” 

“Yeah totally, it’s transformational, it’ll be a fucking hard week but it’s 100% worth it. You’ll meet so many successful people all around China, you get great connections, and it’ll be like a family.” 

Alright, I trust your judgement. Sign me up. She told me it would be 1000 euros (in today’s currency). I had just started working, making about half of that in a month. “I’ll lend you some of the money. No problem.” 

..

So the week starts with a charismatic host/guru introducing everyone, and positioning himself, consciously and subconsciously, as the ultimate judge of each participant’s character. Most people there are around middle age, has a business background (1000 euros a week is no small amount). I was one of the youngest. (And cockiest. ) 

To kick off the “family connection”, everyone is invited to go up to the stage and tell a story of their lives. And the host would ask poignant questions that were subconsciously avoided or long ignored by the storyteller. For instance, a woman in her late 50s was asked, for the very first time in her life, “do you love your husband? Do you think he loves you?” She broke down crying, microphone in hand. 

In between these carefully curated, probing group therapy sessions, are teachings. Teachings that boil down to the fact that encouraging/positive communication with others and with yourself can reprogram your brain, your behavior. I later found out that this part of the event, was essentially some pseudoscience called Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Or in my own words, (auto-)brainwashing.  

The main message that was repeatedly instilled throughout the week was, “everything you see in the world is a reflection of who you are.” It’s a simple, catch-all mantra that gets people thinking, and fair enough. China is not yet a country with any awareness of mental health. This was refreshing for most, especially for the mentally troubled. But as the week went on, I see these messages more in the words of the psychologist who investigated thought control in communist China, a “thought-terminating cliché”. (Terms used to dismiss dissent or justify fallacious logic.) 

Another message, however, was more insidious. You have to give in to us. Or else, you’re not connecting, you won’t achieve real progress, real improvement, you’ll miss this once in a lifetime chance, and you won’t be one of us. (And yes, there were 2 more stages of this event, doubling and tripling the original cost.) Giving in meant, either through an emotional breakdown, which the host was successful at extracting from 90% of the attendants, or by your own volition participate the event fully. There’s no hard definition to “giving in”, but it’s obvious when you see it. You stop resisting, stop snickering, stop being disrespectful, cry when they tell you to, say how high when they say jump. 

And of course, throughout the entire week, background staff is closely monitoring the event, noting down things you said, your behavior and your “progress”. And if they think someone needs more convincing, they’ll openly encourage everyone to single them out and sweet (or bitter) talk them. 

They were watching us, and I was watching them. (I asked the host privately whether his goal was to find people’s weakness so that he can break them down and have them be indebted and obedient later. He said he had to go and walked away with a hollow smile). 

I wasn’t caving, and they were noticing. “Why aren’t you giving in?” “You’re not participating enough.” “If you’re not devoted by your heart now, how are you gonna live a good life?” “Not enough. You still have poison, a barrier in you.” “You kids are too unruly.” “You kids don’t get it. Is it because she’s too young?” “Is she a lier?” “Do you think she’s a disloyal person?” My character was on the table for anyone to probe with a stick, with a smile. It’s for my own good. 

To be fair, I had made some good friends in this event, even had a semi-romantic encounter. The little friend group we had were, not surprisingly, the cocky, confident, cynical of the bunch. There was a 30-year-old millionaire who vows to change our city of 10 million for the better, an entrepreneur and single mom who owns a bar in the middle of Tokyo. We went to dinners, karaokes, tea-houses in the middle of the night. We chugged bottles of beer in seconds and drove around the city in expensive Audis. That was fun. 

During the “graduation”, we were supposed to invite our families to see our progress, and this is of course a showcase of positivity and a big sales pitch. I invited my Saudi Arabian best friend at the time to come watch the circus. (And stun everyone, who’s this brown person?) Save to say, I didn’t join the second and third phases. About 70% of the people remained. 

The friend that introduced me in the first place was later called out on social media for predatory behavior. She was badgering her friends again and again to join this mysterious and exorbitant conference, she’d otherwise be kicked out of her “family group” if she doesn’t get three to join. She staunchly defended herself. 

..

I’ve always thought back on this event. I reconsidered the definition of a cult. Cults are completely understandable and terrifying at the same time. Despite the scientific revolution, or the communist revolution in China, men are not rational, not all the time. Put in a crisis, many if not most would cave to something familiar, and organizations like these prey on that exact moment. If they changed your belief right then and there, and convinced you that it works, they’ve got you thinking that they are the only banana supply in the world and you’re the monkey in the lab. 

At the end of the day, not everyone who joined was convinced or transformed, and some of the people who are transformed, seemed to be leading a marginally better life than before, and are happy to do their bidding. From a business point of view, it makes complete sense, they have a profit margin of probably 1000% per person. Just like predatory people only prey on the weak, that’s all they need. 

Over the years, I’ve found it remarkably similar to organizations like scientology (check the movie The Master), the NLP community, or brainwashing infused education I received in China, or any community that vows to eliminate all negative things for you while demanding allegiance. And I’ve found them to be widely prevalent. I had thought “the West” would have been better. Guess it’s human nature.

“If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.” -- The Master by director Paul Thomas Anderson

[tastydregs]

Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

Brain Keyboard

In 2017, Facebook announced that it was working on a brain-computer interface that designed to let users type by simply thinking words. And today, the company revealed for the first time how far it’s come in its quest to make such a device a reality.

“Imagine a world where all the knowledge, fun, and utility of today’s smartphones were instantly accessible and completely hands-free,” reads a Facebook blog post from today. “Where you could connect with others in a meaningful way, regardless of external distractions, geographic constraints, and even physical disabilities and limitations.”

The meat of today’s announcement: Facebook says it’s collaborating with researchers at the University of California in San Francisco to build a device that could help patients with neurological damage speak again by analyzing their brain activity in real time.

In an article published in the journal Nature Communications today, the team of researchers shared their latest progress on such a device.

In the experiments, they asked participants a question and directed them to say the answer out loud. By examining readings from high-density electrocorticography monitors — electrodes that are surgically implanted directly on the surface of the brain — they could figure out the answer with accuracy rates “as high as 61 percent” by looking at brain signals alone.

The researchers claim that their results “demonstrate real-time decoding of speech in an interactive, conversational setting, which has important implications for patients who are unable to communicate.”

But there are plenty of areas that still need work — especially considering the researchers’ goal of “real-time decoding speed of 100 words per minute with a 1,000-word vocabulary and word error rate of less than 17 percent,” according to Facebook.

During the initial trials, the vocabulary of possible answers was extremely limited and the success rate leaves plenty of room for improvement.

And then there’s the invasiveness of surgically placing electrodes directly on the surface of the brain — a very different model than a sleek headset that’s meant for mainstream consumers.

But Facebook’s Research Lab is already exploring a promising alternative: infrared. By measuring blood oxygenation levels, Facebook believes that it can create a less bulky — and far less invasive — brain-computer interface.

In other words, Facebook isn’t going to get inside your thoughts any time soon. A device that can allow us all to move a mouse, type Facebook comments, and play games with our thoughts alone is still many years, if not decades, out.

And it’s also bound to raise plenty of questions concerning privacy. Our thoughts are one of the last safe havens that have yet to be exploited by data hoarding big tech companies.

“To me the brain is the one safe place for freedom of thought, of fantasies, and for dissent,” Nita Farahany, a professor at Duke University who specializes in neuro-ethics, told MIT Technology Review. “We’re getting close to crossing the final frontier of privacy in the absence of any protections whatsoever.”

READ MORE: Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mind [MIT Technology Review]

More on Facebook’s device: Zuckerberg: Facebook is Building a Machine to Read Your Thoughts

The post Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset appeared first on Futurism.

[putris-et-mulier]

Diversity Bingo 2017

Make a bingo by reading books that fit these descriptions or repurpose it for writing your own. 

Technically it's for it's debuting authors but of course people use it for more things. You can participate officially here but this doesn't have to be just for books. Send the challenge to your favorite authors on twitter, write your own original short fiction or fanfiction, do a challenge in your fandom 

Goodreads lists:

Here is a collection of what has been released commercially so far this year

Here is a list of what people are using to vote on which ones they think is best

Obviously these lists will change all year-round and you are more than welcome to add to them 

Row 1: romance w/a trans, non-binary MC (own voices),SFF w/disabled MC, practicing Jewish MC, Indian MC (own voices), disabled MC

Row 2: MC w/an underrepresented body, neuro-diverse MC (own voices), retelling w/MC belonging to LGBTQIA+, bisexual MC (own voices), MC within invisible disability, MC w/anaphylactic allergy

Row 3: MC of color in SFF, own voices Latinx MC, free choice, non-Western (real-world) setting, own voices, MC w/chronic pain

Row 4: West Asian setting, Arab MC (own voices), MC w/wheelchair, book by author of color, biracial MC (own voices), pansexual MC (own voices)

Row 5: black MC (own voices), MC on the Ace spectrum (own voices), LGBTQIA+ MC of color, visually impaired MC, book set in Central America, contemporary world arranged marriage

Row 6: indigenous MC (own voices), diverse nonfiction, POC on the cover, D/dEAF/hard of hearing (own voices), immigrant or refugee MC, Huabi MC (own voices)

Dictionary: 

Ace – short alternative to asexual which is the sexuality of people whose sexual desires are less than what the culture considers average

Anaphylactic allergy – people with a severe form of allergies such as people who can't expose themselves to the sun or touch water

Arab – a member of the Semitic people of the Arabian peninsula

Biracial – used to describe someone has both POC and Europid ancestry

Bisexual – someone who is attracted to both cis males and cis females, attractions to non-binary, intersex and other are under pansexual (although I agree with this definition being valid I had nothing to do creating this so if you want to complain you should go to them)

Chronic pain – term for pain that is constant for at least six months. Someone who has pain from one to six months is referred to having subacute pain

Contemporary world – the "modern" world, usually within 100 years of the current time

D/dEAF – the preferred term for deaf. The D prefers to consider their community to be a separate culture and usually live in all deaf communities and all deaf schools, the d refers to deaf people who usually consider themselves disabled and a part of the hearing community so they live amongst them

Disabled – physically disabled, mentally is under neuro-diverse, invisible disabilities are under invisible disability

Displaced –  a person expelled, deported, or impelled to flee from their country of nationality or habitual residence by the forces or consequences of war or oppression

Diverse nonfiction – has at least 3 characters that are POC, disabled, DEAF, a sexual and gender minority that does not include cis women

Huabi – Indian people of or from the region between the lagoons and the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico

Immigrant –  a person that comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence

Indian –  a native or inhabitant of the subcontinent of India or of the East Indies (also culturally used to refer to people of that region's native ancestry)

Indigenous –  belonging to or associated with a particular place (as a region or country) by birth

Invisible disability – a physical disability that cannot be visually identified, such as someone with Lyme or Crohn's disease 

Latinx – gender-neutral term for someone who is Latin

LGBTQIA+ – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and everything else under these term umbrellas

MC – main character

Non--binary – someone who identifies their gender as as something other than male or female

Non-Western – Eastern/Asian, the East refers to a myriad of countries located on the far right of globe maps. This can refer to a person of that dissent or in a community whose society and culture aren't considered Western such as the noncommercial districts of Chinatown's. In this instance it refers to someone of dissent.

Neuro-diverse – a person whose neurology is outside what the culture considers average

Own voice – the character being represented is of the same marginalized group(s) as the author

Refugee – someone who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution in his own country or habitual residence because of his race, religion, or political beliefs

SFF – science fiction and/or fantasy

Pansexual – someone who is attracted to others regardless of their gender identification

POC – person of color, someone who is biracial or has no Europid ancestry

Retelling – rewriting a pre-existing work with original characters, commonly referred to fairytale retellings

Trans – transgender

West Asian setting – stories that take place in Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian peninsula, Anatolia, Iran, Armenian Highlands, South Caucasus, or the Sinai Peninsula 

[meripustak]

Legal Issues in Medical Practice

                                             Buy Now 

Legal issues in Medical Practice - 1st Edition

By: Mahesh Baldwa, Varsha Baldwa, Namita Padvi and Sushila Baldwa

Legal issues in medical practice have been gripping medical doctors by surprise in recent years. Some decades ago legal issues in medical practice never created any problem. A greater awareness is being created by adding doctor’s services within the ambit of Consumer Protection Act, 1986. Neither during the undergraduate training nor the postgraduate courses doctors have ever prepared themselves to deal with real-world situations of litigation related to allegations of negligence. While facing litigation related to allegation of negligence in law courts for the first time, a doctor realizes the importance of medical records, consent and expert witness and searches for help books. There are many books available for reference but this one is a handbook for practising doctors and their lawyers grappled with legal issues culminating in litigations covering a vast number of medical specialties and systems.This book proposes to fill the existing vacuum by creating authentic base required to understand the legal issues in medical practice in India. The esteemed contributors have put in their best efforts to share their knowledge, experience and wisdom with the readers by discussing various landmark legal decisions in the field of (alleged) medical negligence. It aims to make the medical practice safe, ethical, reassuring and hassle-free by discussing various legal issues related to medical practice.

The book is written in usual lucid style covering each topic and made reader friendly by adding “summary” “do’s and don’ts”. MCQs are value addition which will improve recall of important legal issues related to medical practice. It is targeted at doctors of all the systems of medicine—be it allopathic, ayurvedic or homeopathic. It covers all the legal issues not covered by teaching of forensic medicine during the undergraduate or postgraduate courses and yet are required in the day-to-day medical practice. The book will help all the doctors in preventive aspects of medical practice, as well as those facing litigation. It will also be an asset for practising lawyers dealing with cases of medical negligence litigation.

This book is targeted at practising doctors for tension-free and litigation-free medical practice. It also provides much-needed relevant medical knowledge to lawyers and those involved in administration of justice.

About the Author:- Mahesh Baldwa MBBS, MD, DCH, FIAP, LLB, LLM, PhD (Law), MBA has authored many books and is currently medicolegal advisor to several corporate insurance and medical organizations. He is a senior consultant pediatrician, Baldwa Hospital, Mumbai. Earlier, he was Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, TN Medical College and Nair Hospital, Mumbai; Assistant Professor at JJ Hospital, Grant Medical College, Mumbai; and Visiting Professor, Papersetter and Examiner, Department of Law, University of Mumbai.

Varsha Baldwa MBBS, MD is working at PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai. Earlier, she has worked at Government Medical College, Surat, and Government Medical College, Kota. She is a graduate from Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai. She has contributed to national and international scientific journals. She bagged “STS” award of ICMR.

Namita Padvi MBBS, MD, DNB, Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology is currently working at Emirates Hospital Dubai. She is ex-Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai. She has contributed to several national and international scientific journals. She is an excellent teacher and a good speaker.

Sushila Baldwa MBBS, MD, DGO is consulting obstetrician and gynecologist at Om Hospital, Apollo Clinic and Nakoda Foundation, Mumbai. She has served as faculty at BJ Medical College, Pune, and Sassoon General Hospital. She has contributed to national and international scientific journals.

Legal Issues in Medical Practice

1 Introduction to Medicolegal Issues 2 Basic of Ethics, History and Ethical Principles of Importance 3 Understanding “MCI Code of Ethics 2002” 4 Doctor–patient Relationship 5 Hospital–Patient Relationship Emerging from Mediclaim Insurance TPA Managed HealthCare through Corporate Hospitals 6. Doctors’ Please Trust your Patients 7. Rights and Duties of Patients and Doctor 8. Help of Communication Skills in Preventive Medicolegal Problems in Medical Practice 9. Laws Applicable to Practicing Doctors, Clinics, Nursing Homes, Dispensaries, Consulting Rooms, Hospitals are Boon or Bane? 10. Medical Documentation and Record Maintenance, Preservation, Destruction Related Legal Issues 11. Medicolegal Issues Related to Audio Taping, Video Recording and Photography on Pen Camera, Smart Phones and Personal Camera   12. Consent, Assent, Approval, Permission and Dissent in Medical Practice 13. Forewarning and Counseling for Disclosure of Risks Prior to Informed Consen 14. Case Laws on Consent, Informed Consent, Dissent 15. Consent Forms, Counseling, Content, Model Forms of Different Types Preparing for the Informed Consent Process 16. Doctor–Patient Confidentiality and its Disclosure 17. Below which Standard of Medical Care it will be Negligence 18. Medical Negligence Under Tort, Consumer Protection Act and Civil Liability 19. Consumer Protection Act and Doctors 20. Errors in Medical Practice 21. Criminal Liability of Doctors 22. Medicolegal Aspects of Sudden Unexpected Death, Difficult Situations in Medical Practice, Brought Dead, Postmortem 23. How to Proceed Medicolegally in a Scenario of Suspected Last Stage Disease like End-of-Life-Care [EOL] and not to Confuse with Euthanasia? 24. Violence against Doctors: A Frightening New Epidemic 25. How to Defend Medical Negligence Case? 26. Vicarious Liability of Medical Negligence 27. Medicolegal Issues Related to Contributory Negligence 28. Medicolegal Issues Related to Multiple Remedies 29. Role of Expert Witness in Medical Negligence Cases 30. Res Ipsa Loquitur 31. Subjudice Matters, Judicial Impropriety, willful Judicial Impropriety, Legal Hierarchy 32. Res Judicata and Estoppel, Law of Limitation and Latches 33. Landmark Judgments on Medicolegal Issues 34. Calculation of Compensation 35. Medicolegal Implications of Delayed Diagnosis, Misdiagnosis, difference in Diagnosis and Wrong Diagnosis 36. Medicolegal Issues Related to Physicians 37. Medicolegal and Ethics Issues in ICU 38. Medicolegal Issues in Pediatric Practice 39. Medicolegal Issue of ‘When not to Resuscitate or to Stop Resuscitating A Newborn/Child’ 40. Medicolegal Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology Abortion and MTP Cases 41. Medicolegal Issues in Sterilization, Tubectomy and Vasectomy 42. Medicolegal Issues in PCPNDT Act Cases 43. Medicolegal Aspects for General Surgery 44. Medicolegal Issues in Orthopedic Cases 45. Medicolegal Issues during Emergency and Accidents 46. Medicolegal Aspects of Ophthalmology 47. Medicolegal Aspects of Anesthesia 48. Medicolegal Issues in ENT 49. Medicolegal Issues Related to Dental Surgeon 50. Medicolegal Issues in Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Cases 51. Medicolegal Aspects of Radiology and Sonology 52. Medicolegal Aspects of Pathology and Medical Laboratory Practice 53  Medicolegal Issues Related to Blood Group, Blood Bank, Blood Transfusion and Transfusion Related Transmission of Infections 54. Clinical Use of Forensic Medicine 55. Medicolegal and Legal Issues in Psychiatry 56. Medicolegal and Legal Issues Related to Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive Surgery and Dermatology 57. Medicolegal and Legal Issues Related to Neuro Medical and Neurosurgery Cases 58. Cross Pathy and Cross Speciality Practice in Medicine: Is it Quackery? 59. Medicolegal Issues in Homoeopathy 60. Medicolegal Issues in Ayurved, Unani, Siddha 61. Medical Undergraduate Postgraduate Qualifications Granted by Medical Institutions Inside or Outside India may not be Registerable with MCI 62. Medicolegal Issues Related to Quacks 63. Safeguarding Children Rights to Prevent Abuse: A Challenge to Doctors 64. Medicolegal Issues Related to Mortuary 65. How to Get the Registration for Hospitals and Small Nursing Homes in India? 66. Medicolegal Aspects of Institutional Committee for Medical Research 67. Medicolegal Issues and Adoption, Foster Care, Remand Homes, Borstals and Non-mainstream Children 68. Medicolegal Aspects of Advertising by Doctors in Print, Electronic Media and Issues Related to Telemedicine 69. MCI Norms to Prohibit Doctors from Attending Conferences Financed by Pharma Companies 70. Medicolegal Issues Related to Consumer Organizations 71. Medical Indemnity Insurance and Risk Management 72. Police Cases and Procedures for Doctors 73. Medicolegal Issues of Mishap Reporting by Media 74. Conflict of Interest [COI] 75. Emotions during Practice! Is it Okay to Cry in front of your Patients? 76. Legislating “No-fault” Medical Compensation Law to replace Medical Negligence under Law of Tort

Acts, Rules, Notification, Guidelines and Registers

1. The Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 2. Violations Under the PNDT Act and the Penalties 3. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 4. The Bombay Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1949 5. Summary of the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 6. Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 7. The Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) 8. The Indian Medical Council Act and Rules,1957 9. The Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916 (Act No. VII of 1916) 10. The Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 [Act No. 48 of 1970 dated 21st December,1970] 11. The Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 (Published in Part III, Section 4 of the Gazette of India, dated 6th April, 2002) 12. The Transplantation of Human Organs Act,1994 13. The Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973 14. Ethics for Practitioners of Indian Medicine 15. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act, 2012 16. GR and Notifications for Ayurvedic Doctors

ETHICS

1. The Declaration of Helsinki 2. The Declaration of Geneva 3. Charak Samhita Oath 4. The International Code of Medical Ethics

GUIDELINES

1. Minimum Requirement for Opening of a Nursing Home/Hospital Apart from Some Locality Requirements and NOC 2. Guidelines Related to Easy Understanding of Law Related to MTP 3. Guidelines for Eye Camps 4. Guidelines for Speedy Disposal of Child Rape Cases 5. Guidelines for Safe Kit Protocol for Rape Victim 6. Frequently Asked Questions about Foreign Adoption Agency 7. PCPNDT Act—Guidelines 8. AIDS: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Guidelines 9. ICMR Guidelines for Preparing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Institutional Ethics Committee for Human Research

REGISTERS

1. Fumigation Register 2. Indoor Case Register 3. Outdoor Patient Register 4. Sterilization of Instruments Register

[the-mind-technician-blog]

The Science Of Mind Control

There is a lot of techniques of brainwashing being used that are done very covertly. I used to be someone who used Brainwashing, Behavioral Engineering, and Mind Control. A lot of it has to do with learning what the needs are of people and by knowing those needs, you also be default knew the fears that drive those specific needs and therefore also there weaknesses. We all have 7 basic core needs but what I am talking about is those with the extremes for their needs.

One of the ways I would learn of someone's needs was through the use of more advanced Body Language, Micro Expressions, and obviously by what by what came out of their mouths. Let's say a person's need in the extreme was Approval. I would also know of course the fear driving this need is Dissent. You see by validating a person's needs they in turn open up to us, therefore dropping their guard down. Obviously when their guard is down it's easier to exploit them.

For that we use techniques such as N.L.P. (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Covert Hypnosis, and other more unknown techniques. People are pretty much in a light trance and are in Auto Pilot as they go through life. It's like driving a car to point A, to point B. When you get to point B you know you got there, you are safe but you cannot recall every turn you took or all the stops you made.

There are techniques that are used to "Shock" someone out of this state. There are ways to, to "anchor" specific feelings or Associate specific feelings. We can then through either a specific cue word or touch elicit those feelings in that person. There are also ways in which to cause someone to disassociate as well.  It is during these periods we can implant our own suggestions and do it in such a way the person believes the thought or idea was there own.

We live under the false security that out brains are impenetrable, and because of this we are more vulnerable to Mind Control methods, and Brain Washing. If you have studied MK Ultra, or Project Monarch you too know that it is a reality of creating Alter Personalities in people. That is a bit more advanced and something I won't really go into. I will say one way is through Hypnosis, introduce them to their "Inner Self" having them give the Inner Self a name, and so on. Also by the mere suggestion that they have a Alter in them is also strong enough. Then there are ways in which to create amnesia and have them disassociate from their Alters.

This is very real stuff that is going on much more than you think because as I said I use to be directly involved with using these methods on people. Where or how I won't go into. This explains this process a little more deeply. I'll be going over ways to not let yourselves fall victims to this.

Thanks.

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