Screen LibrarySwitched on : a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening /
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Spiegel & Grau,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxii, 296 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780812996890 (hardback) : 0812996895 (hardback) 9780812996906 (ebook) 0812996909 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | RC553 |
| CLC: | K837.128.9 |
| Call Number: | K837.128.9/R666-1 |
| 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. |