“This is where I come from, this is where I am now, and here is my universe’ ~ Tralbaut (2) 

The Colourful Life and Death of Mr Van Gogh.

USING ARTWORK TO UNDERSTAND EPILEPSY

An analysis of van Gogh’s epilepsy and emotionality must not obscure the fact that this great artist also had great strengths (4).

TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY

Neurologist, Dr David Bear had seen Van Gogh’s art as ‘Reflecting philosophical and spiritual questing’

Van Gogh was born with a brain lesion’ and had a genetic predisposition to epilepsy and suffered from seizures which doctors, including Dr. Felix Rey and Dr. Peyron, believed to be caused by temporal lobe epilepsy.

‘In general, people with epileptic activity in the left hemisphere write and people with right brain epileptic activity engage in the visual arts, such as drawing, painting…

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STARS IN MIND  Rich lapis blues and sunbeam golds, rivers of universe, curling in scrolls. Whirlpools of passions immersed, celestial air curves, harmonic swirls. A cosmic orchestra of mystical lights, eddy’s and swirls of colourful delights. Aligned within creation of human origin, looking out, a fusion, as infinity within. Circles, rings, immersed in white codes, amongst greens, violets, pink and golds. Melding of all polarities, returning to one, the seeing senses, to be reflected upon. More alive and multicoloured than sky, wanting to share what he saw with eyes. Having the world of time in his hands, pondering impressions of French lands. There were great movements at work, currents of dashed air, he could twerk. Brushes and easel tucked under arm, he had that kind of other worldly charm. His face was gaunt, elongated and slim, focused…

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Accurate testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection, by which we mean testing with few false positives as well as few false negatives, is important not only for clinical management of individual cases but for epidemiological case tracing, limiting spread of infection and informing public health strategies. In the latter situations, tests that are rapid, cheap and easy to perform are particularly desirable.

Two main forms of testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection are in use.

• Antigen testing, which includes the self administered immunochromatographic lateral flow test (LFT), detects viral coat material and is developed by raising a specific antibody against the antigen target. It therefore measures active production of the viral protein that constitutes the antigen. Developing such a test requires knowledge of how the viral behaves in the host and is reliant upon generating a sensitive and specific antibody to be used for the test.
• Molecular tests, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR)…