Recommended Reading:


MIGRAINE

Migraine and Other Headaches by James W. Lance, 1999

AWAKENINGS

The Case of the Frozen Addicts by J. William Langston and Jon Palfreman, 1995
Ivan: Living with Parkinson’s Disease by Ivan Vaughan, 1987
America's Forgotten Pandemic by Alfred W. Crosby, 2003

A LEG TO STAND ON

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio 1999
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph Ledoux 2002
Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee 1999

THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT

Tourette’s Syndrome
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 1999
Don’t Think about Monkeys edited by Adam Seligman and John Hilkevich 1992

Dementia and Alzheimer’s
Losing my Mind:An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer’s by Thomas de Baggio 2002
The Forgetting: Alzheimers, Portrait of an Epidemic by David Shenk 2000

Phantoms and Disembodiment
Pride and a Daily Marathon by Jonathan Cole 1991
Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee 1999

Autism
Autism: Explaining the Enigma by Uta Frith 1989
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin 1995
Elijah’s Cup: A Family’s Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome by Valerie Paradiz, 2002
Exiting Nirvana by Clara Claiborne Park 2001
The Siege by Clara Claiborne Park 1967
Children with Emerald Eyes by Mira Rothenberg (reissue spring 2003)
The Great Mental Calculators by Steven B. Smith 1983
Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome by Darrold Treffert
Cities by Stephen Wiltshire 1989

Memory and Amnesia
The Vintage Book of Amnesia ed. Jonathan Lethem 2000
The Mind of a Mnemonist by A. R. Luria 1968
Memory, Brain and Belief, ed. Daniel Schacter and Elaine Scarry 2001
The Art of Memory by Frances Yates 1969

Music
Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr 1992

Epilepsy
Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon by Eve LaPlant 1993

General
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio 1994
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio 1999
Origins of the Modern Mind by Merlin Donald 1991
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman 1992
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner 1983
The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind by Elkhonon Goldberg 2001
The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph Ledoux 2002
The Emotional Brain by Joseph Ledoux 1997
The Man with the Shattered World by A. R. Luria 1972

SEEING VOICES

Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Cohen 1994
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language by Nora Ellen Groce 1985
When the Mind Hears by Harlan Lane 1986
Deaf Child Crossing by Marlee Matlin 2002
A Man without Words by Susan Schaller 1994
A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann Walker 1986

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS

Color and Vision
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John Hull 1990
Out of Darkness by Zoltan Torey (spring 2003)
Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind by Arthur Zajonc (1993)

Savants
The Key to Genius by Steve Silberman 2003 See also under HAT: Tourette’s, autism, epilepsy, general

THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND

The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux 1993
“The Country of the Blind” by H. G. Wells 1910
Biophilia by E. O. Wilson 1984


UNCLE TUNGSTEN

Stuff: The Materials the World is Made of by Ivan Amato 1997
The Periodic Kingdom by Peter Atkins 1995
H2O: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball 1999
Nature’s Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements by John Emsley 2002
The Same and Not the Same by Roald Hoffmann 1995
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Fire: Servant, Scourge and Enigma by Hazel Rossotti 2002

OAXACA JOURNAL

Skywatchers by Anthony F. Aveni 2001
Naturalist by E. O. Wilson 1994