394 Comments for Massachusetts Mental Health Center

beautiful!

Hee hee I know Dr. Seidman- he's a brilliant researcher still on staff at MGH.

I have some shots of this place as they were tearing it down. I've seen it for yrs. Wanted so bad to go in. But as you said in the opening its real busy. It used to sit in part of Boston's Hospital district. So thanks again for the peek.

It's fascinating to see the deterioration of a building once nature is allowed to do it's work unchallenged.

Actually those are two different types of pipets. In the background are three plastic wrapped disposable large volume pipets used to dispense from 1 milliliter up to 10 or 20 milliliters. The metal brass colored pipet has a disposable plastic barrel and the needles are the blunt tips that attach to the plastic barrel. This pipet is used to deliver highly precise volumes of blood/serum or reagent chemicals used in lab tests. It's actually made of anodized aluminum. That particular model seems to be type used in the 70's. It's amazing to me it was left behind because they are very expensive due to the required precision. The plastic disposable pipets are a more recent development. Sorry, don't mean to over analyze, but these types of shots are part of what attracts me as well as the great art shots.

lol. as a painter, the room is in great condition

This is your best writing yet!

Hmm looks like the date is 2/79. Cool!

Great minds think a like I see dme. I am doing the exact same thing

Somone lives in this building?

sketchy syrgines

Yes these are pictures of a sleep study.

Your interpretations of it are comical. I do think the photos have a cool factor, even for a seasoned sleep tech.

The top portions are obviously photographs of the patient every 4 minutes or so throughout the night.

the bottom portion includes some EMG, EEG and possibly EOG. (muscle activity, brain activity, and eye activity)

You see the #s 48, 49, 50...these are what we call "epochs" or 30 second pages of sleep. The smaller vertical lines are each 1 second.

It would appear the patient is actually awake and there is no sleep present. The ink splatter is suggestive of a fairly older "sleep machine" Its reflecting a gross body movement that has occluded, at least partially so the rest of the channels

What I find interesting is that there are no wires attached to this person. Makes me think this photo was simply some kind of marketing tool. Sleep Studies are notorious for having many wires and if this is showing any kind of EEG/EOG we should be seeing at least 5 "leads" coming from this patients head/face.

After blowing up the "distrub" photo, the first one appears to reveal the common "squares" used to paste electrodes on. It does appear there is some kind of machine on the upper right of the photo. Perhaps my marketing tool impressions are wrong.

Seems to me the guy is awake and just moving around.

As far as patient rights go.....Is the guy identifiable? can you make out his face? could he prove its him? Do we know for sure its a guy and not a girl? Sure its arguable this persons rights have been violated, but might be a tough one to prove

thank you Bill Clinton for the security machine known as HIPPA. Help this guy he needs you now! hahah.

Seclusion rooms are much better then having roommates in a mental hospital. (BELIEVE ME!)

Another cool shot and another item I would love to have on display,

I would love to have the top part of that sign for my condo.