Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D.
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Jeffrey Lee Hatcher, Ph.D.
@jlhatcher.bsky.social
Narrative medicine author north of Boston. Once a wildlife researcher in Kenya & Columbia University. Mission to interest doctors-in-training in epilepsy psychology (tackingonthestyx.com). Between cats. Gene flow research & invisible illnesses don't mix
So are people studying and/or counseling on the impacts of elective brain surgeries?
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Haven't needed to so long as I have a carnivorous breakfast. The 2x vision was the reason I switched from trileptal, however. It was just intolerable.
August 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Nope, she (RIP) just loved rough-housing in her youth. Highly problematic when wearing a thin, summer shirt cuz I took blood thinner and could bleed out from a paper cut . . . well, try and stand up with a cat on your back w/out blood-staining a nice shirt.
August 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
lacosamide is a godsend, but I get terrible 2x vision w/out high-protein and fat serving (whole milk yogurt, brkfst sausage, etc) B4 taking it. But this is strictly a morning phenomenon. Trileptal was even worse.

Eye-patch was useful to stop 2x vis. when it was temporary.
August 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
and jumping on shoulders for a ride when her human servant stoops to tie a shoe.
August 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
From the 70's. I may be giving my age away
July 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
this is why Mom doesn't keep sugar on the dining table
July 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Night-time highway driving has never triggered me, but the strobe-light experience of fast & heavy traffic is worth being mindful of. It gives me a sense of tension. Forested areas with the sun low in the sky in winter can also have strobe effects at >20 MPH
April 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yeah, though certainly not the deepest.
April 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Be careful about too much detail in too short a time - might lose some friends.
April 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Stigmatization is just so high, yet covert. I didn't realize how awful it was until involved in publishing about epilepsy. Publishers have lottery-style give-aways at websites. Books on mental ill get 20 X the interest as books on E. 400 sign ups f/mi books vs 11 for Ep books in some cases.
April 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
However, that doesn't in and of itself, pertain to possibilities of modern food processing and vaccines stimulating seizures (which I am also skeptical of). Strobe lights can trigger seizures. They certainly did not exist hundreds of years ago.
April 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
animals can have seizures, so basically forever. However, the mortality rate must have been quite higher before a significant level of altruism evolved, and life expectencies must have been dramatically lower.
April 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I walked out of a NYC Ivy League school with PhD totally eclipsed by a deep and enduring hatred of my thesis topic and my profs.
April 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Wondered if I should submit deception for peer-review. Would dance around porch door - standard communication. Then, when bipedal slave arose from seat, she'd run to food dish in next room. Sounds trivial, but actually is not.
April 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Very sadly one departed due to stomach cancer @ 10 yo. The other of FIV @ 9 :( . FWIW, cancer victim was only 1 that I knew to engage in out-right deception - very rare @ cognitive level.
April 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hard not to think of getting pissed as being a side effect of a sense of justice - royal wrath (or whatever the term).
April 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM