scholarly journals The Touch of Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Malcolm Ross
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
The Other ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
The One

I have yet to be persuaded that what arts therapists are doing with their clients either actually counts as art—rather than an applied form of occupational therapy—or seems likely to have any long-term effect on easing their suffering, other than by distraction and temporary companionship. I don’t for a moment doubt the relevance of the arts, properly so called, for individual and collective wellbeing—one of the aims of this paper is to spell out what that might mean—butan art practice structured around the conventions of psychoanalysis seems to me entirely mistaken because, as a basis of legitimacy, it favours rationality and modelling over feeling and making good things.Rational, analytical ways of knowing are a direct contradiction to the intuitive and imaginative procedures of art, where touch rather than talk does all the work. The arts offer to effect change in the patient from within rather than from without, via empathetic attunement between the therapist and the patient rather by than argument and persuasion on the one hand or compliance on the other.

Polyacrilonytrile versus Cuprophan Membranes for Hemodialysis: Evaluation of Efficacy and Biocompatibility by Platelet Aggregation Studies

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 218-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Berrettini ◽  
U. Buoncristiani ◽  
P. Parise ◽  
E. Ballatori ◽  
G.G. Nenci
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Count ◽  
Platelet Aggregation ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
The Other ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Extracorporeal Dialysis ◽  
Uremic Patients

The short- and long-term effect of hemodialysis with two different membranes — cuprophan and polyacrilonytrile — on platelet aggregation has been investigated in 12 uremic patients undergoing extracorporeal dialysis, passing from one treatment to the other. Cuprophan membranes failed to correct the defective platelet aggregation of uremia, and their thrombogenicity was documented by a fall in platelet count and further impairment of platelet aggregation during dialysis. On the contrary, polyacrilonitryle membranes showed the capacity to correct completely but transiently the platelet aggregation, without changes in platelet count. The results indicate that polyacrilonytrile membranes show a better biocompatibility toward platelets than cuprophan membranes.

OBSERVATIONS ON SUCCESSIVE PRO-OESTROUS LH SURGES IN INDIVIDUAL 4-DAY CYCLING AND POST-PSEUDOPREGNANT RATS

1978 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto J. Carrillo ◽  
Charles H. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Stimulation ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
Oestrous Cycle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Peak Amplitude ◽  
Lh Surge ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Stimulation Of

ABSTRACT The internal variations (i. e. in timing, duration and amplitude) of the LH surge mechanism within individual rats were examined by monitoring from 3 to 7 successive pro-oestrous LH surges in each of 5 regular 4-day cycling rats fitted with chronic intravenous cannulas. On each successive pro-oestrus blood was collected (0.5–0.6 ml hourly from 14.00–21.00) for radioimmunoassay of LH. The surgery of cannulation had no long-term effect on the regularity of the oestrous cycle. Two rats did, however, show briefly irregular cycles, including one with a 9-day period of anoestrus (pseudopregnancy). In three of the five rats successive pro-oestrous plasma LH curves (4 in one and 3 each in the other two) were internally very consistent in timing, shape and amplitude, However, between each 2 of these 3 animals there were distinct differences in the LH secretory patterns, by as much as 2 h in timing of the onset of the surge and its peak amplitude. The first two surges of the other two rats were atypical of their subsequent surges, which were mostly consistent in timing and amplitude. The pro-oestrous LH surge following the 9-day period of anoestrus was advanced by 2 h and elevated to twice the mean peak amplitude of the cyclic LH surges in that rat. Subsequently, post-PSP surges were studied in rats made pseudopregnant by mechanical stimulation of the cervix. In all cases the immediate post-PSP surge occurred earlier in the afternoon and with a greater peak amplitude than the subsequent cyclic LH surge in the same rat.

Simulation of Particulates Resuspension from Human Walking in UFAD Room

2012 ◽  
Vol 170-173 ◽  
pp. 3639-3643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Li ◽  
Miao Shu Li ◽  
Xiang Xue Ma
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Air ◽  
Lagrangian Method ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Walking ◽  
Air Distribution ◽  
Long Term Effect ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Model Room

In this study, the Lagrangian method is used simulate a process of particles resuspending from occupant walking and being carried away by exhaust in a under-floor air distribution (UFAD) room. Experiments are performed in the prototype of the model room, the results confirmed the particles concentration decay tendency. On the other hand, the numerical simulation results for time of decontaminate the particulates in indoor is agreement with the experimental results. It indicates that the Lagrangian method is suitable for calculate such a process. Based on these studies, the following conclusions can be obtained: (1) human walking cause the particles above 5μm increased rapidly by which resuspended into indoor air; (2) the particles can removaled by exhaust quickly, and it will not cause a long term effect.

Nervous canvas

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mechthild Fend
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Denis Diderot ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organic Substances ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
French Art ◽  
The One ◽  
Sense Of Touch ◽  
Medicine And The Arts

This chapter looks at skin, sensibility and touch in painterly practice and the art literature on the one hand, and in medical as well as philosophical discourse on the other. It argues that the new medical understanding of organic substances as textured joined a special attention to brushwork in mid-eighteenth-century French art practice and theory. This conjuncture prompted attempts to imitate the skin's tissue with an appropriate facture produced by the artist’s hand. The chapter takes the medical metaphorisation of skin as a ‘nervous canvas‘ in the 1765 article ‘sensibilité‘ of Diderot's and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie as its guide to discuss relations between artistic and medical visions of skin in mid-eighteenth-century France. It focuses on the so-called portraits de fantaise by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and argues that the carnations in these paintings are as much about flesh as they are about the materiality and vitality of skin. Pivotal for the analysis of the interconnections between the fields of medicine and the arts, are the writings by philosopher and art critic Denis Diderot as he thought about skin, flesh and the sense of touch his reviews of the Salon exhibitions, in his writings on physiology, as well as in his fictionalised account of the latest medical theories in his Rêve de d'Alembert.

Long-Term Effect of Different Optimizing Methods for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure: A Randomized and Controlled Pilot Study

Cardiology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Yu  Zhang ◽  
Qiang  Xing ◽  
Jiang-Hua Zhang ◽  
Wei-Feng  Jiang ◽  
Mu  Qin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Term Effect ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nominal Group ◽  
Cardiac Resynchronization ◽  
Resynchronization Therapy ◽  
Long Term Effect

Aim: During cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), optimized programming of the atrioventricular (AV) delay and ventricular-to-ventricular (VV) interval can lead to improved hemodynamics, symptomatic response, and left ventricular systolic function. Currently, however, there is no recommendation for the best optimization method. This study aimed to compare the long-term clinical outcomes of 4 different CRT optimization methods. Methods: One hundred and twenty-four consecutive CRT patients with severe heart failure and left bundle-branch block configuration were randomly assigned into four groups to undergo AV/VV delay optimization through echocardiogram (ECHO; n = 30), electrocardiogram (ECG; n = 32), QuickOpt algorithm (n = 28), and nominal AV/VV (n = 36) groups. Patients were followed up and underwent examinations, including New York Heart Association (NYHA) cardiac functional classification, 6-min walking distance (6MWD), and echocardiography, at 6, 12, 24, 36, and 48 months, respectively. The patients’ survival and clinical outcomes were compared among the four groups. Results: Kaplan-Meier survival analyses showed that the median survival was the same in the 4 groups: ECHO, 43 months; ECG, 44 months; QuickOpt, 44 months, and nominal, 41 months. At the 6-month follow-up, the reduction in left ventricular end diastolic diameter (LVEDD) was significantly less in the nominal group (–1.91 ± 2.58 mm) than that in the other three groups (ECHO: –3.70 ± 2.78 mm, p = 0.012; ECG: –3.53 ± 3.14 mm, p = 0.020; QuickOpt: –3.46 ± 2.65 mm, p = 0.032); 6MWD was significantly shorter in the nominal group (87.88 ± 34.76 m) than that in the other three groups (ECHO: 120.63 ± 56.93 m, p = 0.006; ECG: 114.97 ± 54.95 m, p = 0.020; QuickOpt: 114.57 ± 35.41 m, p = 0.027). Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) significantly increased in ECHO (7.23 ± 2.76%, p = 0.010), ECG (8.50 ± 3.17%, p < 0.001), and QuickOpt (8.39 ± 2.90%, p < 0.001) compared with the nominal group (5.35 ± 2.59%). There were no significant differences among the groups in the aforementioned parameters at 24, 36, and 48 months, respectively. Conclusion: While LVEDD, LVEF, 6MWD, and NYHA were significantly improved in ECHO, ECG, and QuickOpt at 6 months, there were no significant improvements in any of the groups at 12, 24, and 48 months. These findings suggested that the long-term effect of the four CRT methods for heart failure was not significantly different.

A long-term effect of subliminally presented words

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas T. Breuer ◽  
Michael E. J. Masson ◽  
Glen E. Bodner
Keyword(s):  
Term Effect ◽  
Long Term Effect
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