Dr. Utkarsh Gaur
Psychiatry resident. Tech Enthusiast
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Resident's Toolkit
Rating scales and calculators for psychiatry trainees. They score as you go, and nothing you enter leaves your browser.
- HAM-D Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (17-item)Depression severity (clinician-rated)
- YMRS Young Mania Rating ScaleSeverity of manic symptoms (clinician-rated)
- CIWA-Ar Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol, revisedAlcohol withdrawal severity (clinician-rated)
- AIMS Abnormal Involuntary Movement ScaleTardive dyskinesia and other involuntary movements (clinician-rated)
- QTc QTc calculator (Bazett, Fridericia, Framingham, Hodges)Heart-rate corrected QT interval before and during psychotropic treatment
- CPZ eq. Antipsychotic dose equivalents (chlorpromazine equivalents)Total antipsychotic load in chlorpromazine equivalents, using the Maudsley equivalent doses (oral and long-acting injections)
- Life Chart NIMH/Post Life Chart MethodLongitudinal course of mood episodes, medications and life events
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Life Chart: the ECG of mood disorders
A digital implementation of the NIMH/Robert Post Life Chart Method. Designed for clinical precision, this tool allows patients and clinicians to visualize mood episodes, medications, and life events on a longitudinal timeline.
- Episodes, medications and life events on one timeline
- Month-and-year entry, the way clinicians actually recall history
- A4 export for case files; runs entirely in the browser

The Synapse Journal
Thoughts on mental health, code, and poetry.
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Machine
Hello World: My First Vibe Code
I built this website without knowing how to code properly. Just pure intent and AI assistance. This is the future of creation.
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Metaphor
Zindagi Aur Chess
Shatranj ki chaal si hai ye zindagi,
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Mind
The Architecture of Thought
Is the mind just a biological neural network? As I study the mechanisms of schizophrenia, I find striking parallels with how we train our AI models...
About me
I’m a Psychiatry Resident and a lifelong humanities enthusiast with a deep appreciation for poetry, political thought, and ethical inquiry. While my professional work focuses on understanding the human mind, my way of thinking has been shaped equally by literature, socio-political analysis, and years of engaging with questions of governance, morality, and human behaviour. Although I’m not currently pursuing these fields academically, I continue to draw from them through reflective reading, ongoing curiosity, and an instinctive habit of contextualising human experience within broader societal patterns.
Alongside this, I continue to explore technology and emerging digital frameworks, especially those that align with human expression and emotional design. I don’t call myself a poet or a coder, yet I find resonance in both—the structure of thought in code and the nuance of meaning in language. Whether I’m listening to a patient, studying patterns of behaviour, absorbing world events, or experimenting with digital concepts, I’m searching for the same thing: understanding why humans feel, think, and act the way they do.
“Ultimately, I am just someone who is still trying to learn new things around him and trying to keep alive the curiosity that societal boxes and labels usually kill. How successful I will be, only time will tell. To know, stay tuned :p”
