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I have developed a new and improved website: kathleenslukaart.com
This site has pages for a gallery of my favorites, journal covers, reprint art, and a shop with prints, ties and scarves.
Please visit this site to follow my future postings.
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NeuroMartix
NeuroMartix My new #acrylicpainting-4x5ft-showing a complicated #dendritic web. #Neurons connect to over 10,000 other neurons and make over 1 trillion #synapses. #sciart #neuroart
My latest acrylic painting 4×5 feet. It is the largest I have done so far and was really fun to do. It took over 200 hours over a couple of months.
It shows the complicated dendritic structure of neurons. The dendrites extend from the round cell body and branch like trees to form a tangled web of connections with other neurons. I highlighted two neurons, in red and turquoise, and then drew…
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What does your pain feel like?
WHAT DOES YOUR PAIN FEEL LIKE? My first poem written from responses provided by people with pain from a twitter post. I drew neurons to represent that neurons are critical to generation of #chronicpain #scicomm #painscience
This is the first poem I have written. I asked people with pain “what does your pain feel like?” They responded with a wide variety of responses. There were people with a lot of different responses, and everyone was different. But there were broad themes which this poem reflects.
The first part of the poem portrays the responses and categories of responses. Thank you to everyone who responded to…
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Poppy Brain
This is a multimedia collage called Poppy Brain. I pasted the chemical formula for morphine as the background on a foam brain. I then painted a poppy field across the brain to represent the many areas that opioids produce their effects.
This multimedia collage, 16×20″, pasted the chemical formula for morphine on a foam brain. I then painted a poppy field across the brain to illustrate all the areas involved in opioids effects.
Morphine is derived from the opium poppy. Due to the opioid epidemic there is a much greater awareness of the potential dangers of opioid use for pain control. However, opioids still remain an effective…
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Speed Inducers
“Speed Inducers” featuring the often forgotten #glia cell of the #central nervous system, #oligodendrocytes. #neuroart #neuronart #sciart #bioart #slukaart
This acrylic painting (18×24″) shows neurons with a focus on the axons (brown) and glia. These glia are called oligodendrocytes and their main role is to support neurons, at least that is the classical thinking.
Neurons send electrical signals through their axons. The speed of the electrical signal is determined by the myelin sheath which is made from a glial cell called an oligodendrocytes…
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My new pencil drawing showing tendonitis. This is a colored pencil sketch for how I envision tendonitis. Tendonitis is a common problem that occurs in multiple places of the body and leads to pain and loss of function.
Spinal Cord
This is an 24×36″ acrylic painting of the spinal cord from the area that controls the legs and lower half of body.
The spinal cord is divided into the dorsal horn-upper part, and the ventral horn-lower half. The dorsal horn receives input from sensory fibers in green. It sends input through interneurons, in pink, to the spinothalamic tract cells, in blue. These cells are important for…
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Alzheimer’s Brain
This is a brain set to represent Alzheimer’s disease. This is a relatively common and devastating disease that affects a person’s memory.
In the brain there are plaques and tangles that are indicative of Alzheimer’s. These two abnormal structures are thought to contribute to killing neurons.
Plaques are made up of beta amyloid protein that builds up between neurons.
Neurofibrillary tangles are…
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Neural Circuits
Neural Circuits This brain I made with the background using old IBM computer punch cards to represent the computing power of the brain. I then used resisters, capacitors, and transistors connected with wire to represent the capacity of neurons to transmit and process information. The outer edges of the brain are an organized pattern to represent cerebral cortex cell organization. As you move towards the inside of the brain the connections get more complicated and less organized to represent a more complicated network that occurs between brain areas particularly in limbic structures.
Neural Circuits
This brain I made with the background using old IBM computer punch cards to represent the computing power of the brain. I then used resisters, capacitors, and transistors connected with wire to represent the capacity of neurons to transmit and process information.
The outer edges of the brain are an organized pattern to represent cerebral cortex cell organization. As you move…
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Life Vessels. Colored pencil drawing showing an arteriovenous anastomosis-or the place where arteries connect with veins in your tissues. #arteries #veins #slukaart #sciart #bioart #medart This is a colored pencil drawing showing connections between arteries and veins, called arteriovenous anastomosis. The red vessels are arterioles that take blood and nutrients to tissue and the blue vessels are venules that take blood and waste away from the tissue.
Pain Brain. Mixed media showing areas of the brain activated by Pain. The background is a collage of images from published papers on brain imaging. The yellow and white map pins with red and pink string connections represent brain areas involved in pain processing. #painscience #sciart #slukaart #neuroart This is a mixed media artwork showing areas in brain involved in processing pain. The background is a collage of brain images from published papers using brain imaging.
Acrylic painting showing neurons across the visual spectrum. The rainbow of colors represents the diversity of function of the brain. #neuronart #neuroart #slukaart #bioart #biologyart #sciart #scienceart #medart #medicineart This painting shows a brain with neurons colored across the visual spectrum. I chose to use the variety of colors to represent the diversity of function across the brain which includes decision making, learning and memory, emotion, sensation, motor control, speech, heating and vision.
Meeting Doodles
My notes from a recent meeting I attended. The hotel gave us black paper and silver gel pens to take notes. These are my notes. #sciart #bioart #neuroart
I just attended the annual meeting of the orthopedic section of the American Physical Therapy Association. Got to give a talk on the science of Pain and how to implement this into clinical practice. During the meeting, the hotel gave us black paper and silver gel pens to take notes. Not a great idea, especially for an artist. I usually doodle during all meetings but these may have been my best…
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The Amazing Shrinking Fat
The Amazing Shrinking Fat. This is a series of four painting that show fat cells are larger and immune cells are more inflammatory in obese individuals. Regular exercise reduces the size of fat cells and immune cells become anti-inflammatory. #obesity #sciart #bioart #slukaart #medart
This is a series of four different paintings showing fat cells, called adipocytes in obese individuals and how they lose their size with regular exercise. Note the size of the fat cell shrinks with decreasing weight, but the number of fat cells do not. I have put a silhouette on each figure to show how increasing activity decreases weight, and changes size of fat cells.
I also show macrophages in…
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Obesity-1
Obesity-1. My latest painting showing adipocytes (fat cells) in green. Macrophages in the tissue (red cells) promote a systemic inflammation and sympathetic fibers (yellow). #obesity #sciart #bioart #kathleensluka #slukaart #medart
This acrylic painting shows adipocytes-fat cells in green. The red cells are macrophages and release inflammatory cytokines, chemicals that result in a systemic inflammation. The yellow-orange fibers are sympathetic fibers which show increased activity in obesity.
Obesity is an increasingly recognized health concern in the United States and world-wide. The Center for Disease Control in 2014…
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My latest painting showing stem cells and the different types of cells they can turn in to in the human body. #stemcell #sciart #slukaart #bioart #medicineart #kathleensluka This acrylic painting shows stem cells in black and white and the cells they can differentiate into in the body.
My latest cartoon called Pain Wars. It shows neurons shooting neurotransmitters at each other out of their axon terminals at synapses. #painscience #neuroart #sciart #medart #pain #slukaart #kathleensluka This cartoon I call Pain Wars. It represents the balance between inhibition and excitation that goes on in the central nervous system to modulate pain. I show neurons with their axon terminals shooting out neurotransmitters. Excitatory neurons are red and inhibitory are blue.