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Author Robison, John Elder, author.

Title Switched on : a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening / John Elder Robison ; foreword by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD.

Publication Info. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  616.8588 ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B ROBISON, JOHN ELDER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.908 ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  B ROBISON, JOHN ELDER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.8588 ROBISON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.8588 ROB    DUE 04-18-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.8588 R56R    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B ROBISON, J.    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxii, 296 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-289)
Contents An electrifying proposal -- The value of detachment, circa 1978 -- Medical magnets -- Why change? -- Horsepower -- Informed consent -- The history of brain stimulation -- Mapping my brain -- The night the music came alive -- Emotion -- Singing for ambulances -- A family affair -- Seeing into people -- Hallucinations and reality -- Awakening -- Science fiction becomes real -- The zero-sum game -- The shimmer of music -- Aftermath -- Nature's engineers -- Speech -- A more subtle result -- Different kinds of success -- Rewriting history -- Fear -- A new beginning -- Tuning out the static -- Mind readers -- A death in the family -- Back in the groove -- The future.
Summary "When John Elder Robison published Look Me in the Eye, his darkly funny bestselling memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome, he was launched into international prominence as an autism expert. But in spite of his success, he still struggled to decode the secret language of social interactions, and often felt like a misfit who understood car engines better than people. So when a group of Harvard neuroscientists told John about TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), an experimental brain therapy that promised to remediate the disabilities of autism and unlock his emotional intelligence, he jumped at the chance to join their study. Switched On recounts the adventure that followed, as John became a guinea pig to the world's top brain researchers in an effort to understand the social and emotional deficits that lie at the heart of autism, with electrifying results. As Robison describes his transformation: "For the first time in my life, I learned what it was like to truly 'know' other people's feelings. It was as if I'd been experiencing the world in black and white all my life, and suddenly I could see everything--and particularly other people--in brilliant beautiful color.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Robison, John Elder -- Mental health.
Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- Treatment.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Neuroscience.
MEDICAL -- Neuroscience.
Added Author Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780812996890 (hardback) : $28.00
0812996895 (hardback)
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