Three Buzzing Conditions

The “three buzzing conditions” are epilepsy, bipolar disorder and migraine.The mainstream medical explanation for both epilepsy and migraine involve convulsions (seizures) triggered by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. In the case of bipolar disorder, the convulsive hypothesis has never been demonstrated to the (fortunately) high scientific standards of the biological psychiatry community, and there is actually a new field of exploration centering around neurotransmitters.

I’m not impartial. General hand-waving about neurotransmitters tends to irk me, as big pharma marketing has jeopardized the public image of biological psychiatry with oversimplified and sometimes flat out false theories like the “chemical imbalance” explanation for major depression. Actually, psychiatrists have known for a while that major depression results from neuron atrophy in the emotional center of the brain; while SSRIs make your brain marinate on serotonin, it’s not until they have been on your system for long enough to stimulate neuron regrowth that relief is felt.

Also, I am bipolar. I feel that bipolar disorder being closely related to epilepsy would erase much of the stigma. Some forms of epilepsy can trigger mood episodes, psychotic symptoms like hallucinations, derealization anddepersonalization crises and even automatisms, but those don’t get all the press that more common forms of epilepsy most characterized by tonic-clonic seizures do. Actually, from my symptoms the diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy was briefly considered, though EEG readings didn’t show anything.

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Phase is the place

@ IMPA. Three digital photographs and synthesized composite from a HDR mixture tonemapped down via the Fattal algorithm (alpha = 0.1, beta = 0.94, noise reduction = 0.434

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Bronze up, bronze down

@ IMPA. Tonemapped down from HDR composite via the Fattal (alpha = 0.675, beta = 0.8) and Reinhardt’ 05 algorithms.

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