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Africans, the Libyan Sibyl, and the Greek Slave
Models of this piece were crafted in Florence against the backdrop of the recent Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, and embodied neoclassical \"archetypes of whiteness,\" in the words of Kirk Savage (Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, 1997), as American race theorists imagined the ideal human form. On the one hand, proslavery polemicists like the Virginian George Fitzhugh regularly invoked the glories of slave societies of the greater Mediterranean World-\"the ruins of Thebes, of Nineveh, and of Balbec, the obelisks and pyramids of Egypt, the lovely and time-defying relics of Roman and Grecian art, the Doric column and the Gothic spire,\" to buttress the chattel principle's alleged connection with high civilization (Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society, 1854). [...]as the historian Margaret Malamud has argued, African Americans in the nineteenth century drew upon the western classics to debunk the myriad myths of Black inferiority (African Americans and The Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism, 2016). The politics of transatlantic abolition imbued Story's art, and conceivably helped shape his deviation from what the abolitionist novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe called \"the cold elegance of Greek lines\" (\"Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl,\" 1863).
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Poster Presentation: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) : An Overview
Introduction:
The evolution of electrical stimulation of brain as a treatment modality began with discovery of electrical properties of Catfish by Egyptians. The birth of DC generator in 1st century and study of its effects on neuronal excitability by Priori in 1998 led to the development of modern tDCS, a non-invasive, cost-effective neuromodulation technique. tDCS which is one of the transcranial stimulation methods among others (tACS, tPCS, tRNS, sotDCS) have shown therapeutic utility in schizophrenia, mood and anxiety/child psychiatric/substance use disorders, cognitive enhancement and pain management. Mechanism of action: tDCS causes polarization of RMP through two electrodes placed on scalp; anode with excitability-enhancing; and cathode with inhibitory-enhancing effects. Recent studies show that it reduces level of biomarkers implicated in various neuropsychiatric disorders, causing symptomatic improvement. Electrode Placement: Electrode positioning is made through precise measurements using the International 10-20 System of Electrode Placement. The DLPFC (F3/F4) is the most common site targeted effectively in depression, schizophrenia and substance use disorders and rATL is targeted in Insight and problem-solving. Parameters of Stimulation: The usual electrode sizes are of 25-35 cm2 with currents of 1-2 mA applied for up to 20-40 minutes. The 2.0 mA current for 5-30 minutes is the optimal therapeutic dose preferred in most studies. Safety and Tolerability of Procedure: The usual side effects are mild pain/itching/tingling, redness, insomnia and headache, which are transient and largely tolerable, and has proven to be in overall a safe procedure.
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Psychiatric comorbidity and quality of life in patients with bipolar disorder
Background: Psychiatric comorbidity in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) has been associated with an earlier onset, rapid cycling, worsening severity and outcome, and increased suicidality. Patients with BD have been reported to have poor quality of life (QOL) even during remission. Aims and Objectives: Estimate the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity and assess the QOL in patients with BD, and find the associated sociodemographic and clinical variables. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was done in a general hospital psychiatric unit on 100 patients (both inpatients and outpatients) with DSM-IV-TR BD in partial or complete remission. Patients were assessed using a semi-structured pro forma, Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview 6.0 - Hindi version, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression or Young Mania Rating Scale and World Health Organization QOL instrument, short-form (WHOQOL-BREF), Hindi Version. Results: Sixty-one percent of the sample had at least one psychiatric comorbidity, and the commonest comorbid disorders were substance use disorders (SUD) (30%) and anxiety disorders (AD) (28%). Male gender was identified as a predictor for comorbidity in BD. The mean QOL-BREF score was 85.96 ± 14.35. Poor QOL was associated with older age at onset of comorbidity, multiple comorbidities, mixed episodes, rapid cycling, partial remission, and increased severity of depression while patients with current hypomanic symptoms were found to have better QOL. BD with comorbidity had worse QOL than those without comorbidity.Conclusion: The majority of patients with BD had at least one comorbidity. SUD were the most common comorbid disorders. QOL, already poor in BD patients, was poorer in cases with comorbidity.
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From Slavery to Poverty
The racially charged stereotype of \"welfare queen\" - an allegedly promiscuous waster who uses her children as meal tickets funded by tax-payers - is a familiar icon in modern America, but as Gunja SenGupta reveals in From Slavery to Poverty, her historical roots run deep. For, SenGupta argues, the language and institutions of poor relief and reform have historically served as forums for inventing and negotiating identity.Mining a broad array of sources on nineteenth-century New York City's interlocking network of private benevolence and municipal relief, SenGupta shows that these institutions promoted a racialized definition of poverty and citizenship. But they also offered a framework within which working poor New Yorkers - recently freed slaves and disfranchised free blacks, Afro-Caribbean sojourners and Irish immigrants, sex workers and unemployed laborers, and mothers and children - could challenge stereotypes and offer alternative visions of community. Thus, SenGupta argues, long before the advent of the twentieth-century welfare state, the discourse of welfare in its nineteenth-century incarnation created a space to talk about community, race, and nation; about what it meant to be American, who belonged, and who did not. Her work provides historical context for understanding why today the notion of \"welfare\" - with all its derogatory un-American connotations - is associated not with middle-class entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, but rather with programs targeted at the poor, which are wrongly assumed to benefit primarily urban African Americans.
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Inclusion of Transgender Populations in Clinical Trials related to Mental Health Interventions in the last decade
Background:
Research in mental health has always been skewed towards gender-normative samples. Though it has been seen that transgender populations suffer significantly more adverse mental health outcomes than their cis-gender counterparts, there is barely any effort for the inclusion of gender diverse populations in clinical trials.
Aim:
To identify published and upcoming clinical trials which cater to mental health needs of
Materials and methods:
A search was conducted on PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov database for identifying published trials in the last ten years as well as upcoming trials related to mental health which included transgender individuals in the sample. Observational studies, studies related to medical/surgical treatment unrelated to mental health, and those with public health interventions were excluded.
Result:
In the last ten years, only 11 clinical trials were identified on PubMed which deals with mental health of transgender individuals, all after 2016. Average sample size was 554.82, and those with only LGBT samples had average sample size of 190.71. The average proportion of transgender population in LGBT-focussed studies was 27.8 and those including non-LGBT populations was 3.87. Majority studies were focussed on substance use (45.45%). In ClinicalTrials.gov, only 15 clinical trials were identified which dealt with mental health related interventions in transgender populations.
Conclusion:
There is a dearth of clinical trials dealing with the transgender population, which may limit our understanding of mental health interventions in the said population.
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