‘Ictal Project’ by Gus Cummins

‘Ictal Project’ by Gus Cummins

IMAGES ‘ictal 2008 02’ ‘ictal 2008 06’ 50 [7_TD$DIFF] [8_TD$DIFF] 75cm C-type prints, 2008 ‘Post [10_TD$DIFF]ictal’ 30[11_TD$DIFF] cm 30 cm C-type print, 2008 [13_TD$DIFF] ‘Corridor’ [14_TD$DIFF] 38 cm [16_TD$DIFF] 32 cm digital print, 2009 Several years ago I began assessment for possible surgery. This startedwith video telemetry and I was able towatchmyself having seizures after 15 years of n...

‘Liminal Dub’ by Gus Cummins

Images from ‘Dub in Liminal [4_TD$DIFF]Space’ produced in 2009–2010 towards MRes Digital Art and Technology at University of Plymouth. I embrace the ‘Dub [7_TD$DIFF]Reggae’ music genre. It strips the language from songs, sometimes returning it in a fragmented form, ornamented with delays and echoes. It provides an analogy for temporal lobe seizures; I experience dub versions of events, with lan...

Gus Stadler

Ictal and Peri-Ictal Psychopathology

Patients with epilepsy may experience psychiatric symptoms preceding the seizure (pre-ictal), following the seizure (post-ictal), independently of seizure occurrence (interictal), or as an expression of the seizure (ictal). Compared to interictal, peri-ictal psychiatric symptoms are less investigated and recognized. However, they contribute substantially to disability and distress among people ...

Effect of Status on Social Reasoning (Cummins 1998)

Sociality, the formation of social groups by a species, is often seen as an evolved solution to some of life’s most basic problems, such as how to obtain food, how to successfully reproduce and care for young, and how to avoid predation long enough for these prior concerns to be issues at all. While helping to solve many of these problems, sociality also presents a unique challenge: how are lim...