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American Academy of Neurology, 73n, 82n
American Fern Society, 564, 616n, 682
American Medical Association (AMA), 134n, 166, 166n, 185, 197
American Neurological Association, 29, 56n, 134n
American Psychiatric Association (APA), 325, 325n
American Sign Language (ASL), 422, 448n, 449, 449n, 455, 461, 464, 467n, 469, 479, 479n, 529, 530
amnesia, 263, 263n, 391, 590, 600
see also Korsakov’s syndrome
amphetamines, 84, 88, 105, 110, 115n, 128–9, 156, 171, 171n, 252n, 547n
anatomy, 123, 647, 649–50
Anstendig, Mark, 107n
Anthropologist on Mars, An, 354n, 433n, 503, 506n, 515, 517n, 523–4, 533, 539, 547, 560, 607, 622, 659
anthropology, medical, 444, 445–6, 455–6, 467, 517
antisemitism, 235, 236
aphasia, 143, 275, 343, 343n, 422, 611, 616n
Appleyard, Brian, 522
apraxia, 275, 389, 389n
Aquinas, Thomas, 85
Arendt, Hannah, 393, 395, 395n
Aristotle, 627
Arnold, Matthew, 507
Ashman, Dave, 64, 64n, 577
Asperger’s syndrome, 503, 547, 643–4
see also autism
astrology, 552, 562
astronomy, “internal,” 277, 277n, 285, 575
asylums, 369, 617n, 652–4, 652n, 654n, 659
see also communities, therapeutic for mentally ill
atavism, 300, 313
atheism, 24, 551–2, 664
Atkins, Peter, 584
Attenborough, David, 668
Auden, W. H., 191, 191n, 194, 194n, 195, 195n, 196n, 204, 206n, 207–9, 223, 223n, 225n, 227, 233, 243, 243n, 244, 247–50, 250n, 252, 260, 260n, 291–2, 296, 328, 349, 354, 393–5, 404–6, 404n, 413, 419, 476, 491, 543, 551, 612, 658
Aumann, Robert John, 551n, 579n, 624, 655, 655n, 687, 690
Australia, OS visits to, 216, 411–12, 416, 437, 470n, 496, 549, 586, 599, 603, 647, 691
autism, 263, 481–2, 481n, 489, 503–5, 503n, 504n, 505n, 547, 581n, 644n
as a spectrum, 481–2, 481n
see also Asperger’s syndrome
autobiography, by OS, 241, 255, 353, 355, 399, 553, 666, 674, 684
see also On the Move; Uncle Tungsten
automobiles, as neurotic focus, 178–9
Awakenings (book), 158n, 203, 206, 209, 211, 215, 220n, 223–4, 226n, 227–8, 238, 239n, 242n, 243, 246n, 247n, 270n, 288, 292, 310, 313, 329, 335, 354, 374, 378, 379, 391, 393, 451–2, 451n, 452n, 453–4, 462, 473, 476, 478, 484, 486–7, 487–8, 490n, 538
reactions to, 242, 247, 249, 254, 260, 269, 318, 325, 383, 423, 427
Awakenings (book), adaptations of
documentary, 244, 325n, 335, 371, 371n, 612
feature film, 373n, 374, 470n, 474, 476
opera, 620, 620n
theatrical, 334–6, 336n, 377–8, 383–4, 511, 512, 514–15
Awakenings patients, 170, 244, 379, 385, 412n, 497, 507, 558, 586, 612, 618, 659
fondness for, 170, 379, 385
see also encephalitis lethargica; L-dopa; Seymour L.; Tighe, Lillian
Ayers, A. J., 559
B
Babinski, Joseph, 341, 341n, 342
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 56, 95, 126, 204, 642, 677
Bacon, Francis, 159
Baldwin, James, 64
Bandel, Andrea, 633
Barnett, Catherine, 472
Barry, Dan, 605
Barry, Susan R., 605
Bartlett, Fredric, 525, 525n, 621
Bartlett, Neil, 417
Bartók, Béla, 643
baseball, 26, 55
Batchelor, Mac, 577
Bates, Henry Walter, 367, 367n
Bateson, Gregory, 368, 368n
Beach novel, 125
Beadle, George, 416n
Beasley, Barbara, 338
Beckett, Samuel, 252n, 269, 271
Bede, Venerable, 85
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 13, 205, 642
behaviorism, 261
behavior modification, 263
Bekoff, Marc, 664
belief, 485–6, 551–2, 561–3
in supernatural, 485–6, 574–6
Bell, Alexander Graham, 635
Bellow, Saul, 230n
Belluck, Pam, 663
Bennet, John, 517, 518n, 662
Bennett, Alan, 24n, 336
Bentham, Jeremy, 559
Benzer, Seymour, 644, 644n
Berger, Ike, 64, 64n
Bernstein, Nikolai, 612
Berzelius, Jöns Jacob, 554
Best, Nancy, 490, 490n
Beth Abraham Hospital, 124, 126, 126n, 132, 135, 148, 150, 153, 159, 163–5, 174n, 182n, 191, 203, 209, 220, 227, 238–9, 245, 270n, 292, 303, 331, 337, 366, 369, 371, 373–4, 402–4, 427, 540, 653
Bettelheim, Bruno, 271, 271n
Betts, John, 617
Beyond the Fringe, 24, 24n
Bikel, Theodore, 554
Billy Budd (Melville), 90
biographies, scientific and literary, 29, 137, 196, 204, 330, 382, 414, 427, 551, 553–4, 569, 570, 586, 615, 617, 625, 639, 667n, 680
biophilia, 553, 631, 668n
bipolar disorder, xiii, 523n, 568, 634n, 635
see also manic depression
Bird, Seymour, 77, 81, 81n, 94, 100, 110, 121
birthdays, xiii, 3, 39, 127, 242, 469, 525, 545–6, 545n, 550n, 551, 587, 610, 628, 628n, 656, 661, 669, 671, 680
Björk, 668, 668n
Blassie, Freddie, 66, 66n
blindness, 493, 497, 498n, 506n, 512, 536, 538, 592, 607, 638
see also colorblindness
Blue Mountain Center, 393n
boarding school, xiii, 110, 114–15, 270
see also Braefield
body image, 446, 492
Bogdan, Robert, 501
Bohm, David, 594
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 559
Bonnard, Augusta, 75, 75n, 77, 82, 110, 122, 141, 142, 142n, 180
Borden, Bill, 595, 616
Borges, Jorge Luis, 315, 528
Boswell, James, 268, 625
botany
alpine, 6–7
cycads, 502, 527, 532, 536, 544, 630
ferns, 177, 339n, 416, 518, 527, 532, 564, 616n, 630, 667, 682, 682n, 683
see also gardens; Island of the Colorblind; Oaxaca Journal
Böttiger, Lars Erik, 445
Bowlby, John, 650
Braefield, 8, 114–15, 184–5, 184n, 185n, 270, 272n
Bragg, Lawrence, 657, 657n
Bragg, William Henry, 657n
Brahms, Johannes, 56, 195, 296, 642
branchial myoclonus, 452, 647
Brando, Marlon, 302
Breger, Louis, 667, 667n
Brenner, A. K., 371
British Sign Language (BSL), 479, 479n
Broadbent, Donald, 233
Brock, William H., 553
Brockman, John, 522n
Brody, David, 673
Bronx Developmental Services, 203n
Bronx Psychiatric Center (Bronx State), 132, 227n, 263, 269, 270, 337, 471, 652
Brook, Peter, 514, 514n
Brouwer, L. E. J., 551
Browne, Thomas, 65n
Bruner, Jerome, 407, 407n, 444, 469, 561, 605, 680
Brush, Daniel, 601
Bryan, William Jennings, 552
Buber, Martin, 327, 327n
Buckeridge, Anthony, 185, 185n
budget cuts, 220–1, 489, 653
Bullock, Theodore, 670
Burnett, Carol, 104n
Burns, Ric, 676, 678, 679
Buscombe, Bob, 666
Butch (dog), 212, 218, 311–12
Butler, George, 578
C
Cahill, Kevin, 601
California, nostalgia for, 144–5, 169–70
Calne, Donald, 182–3, 182n, 188
Cambridge, University of, 24, 627, 627n
Campbell, Donald, 430
Campbell, Ruth, 532n
camping, 52
Camus, Albert, 93, 99
Canada, travels in, 4–14, 15, 360, 386, 444n
Cannery Row, 27–8, 27n
Cantor, Georg, 551
Capp, Al, 204
Cardan, Girolamo, 152, 152n
Carroll, Lewis, 252n
Carvalho, Gil B., 672
Casals, Pablo, 126, 126n
Case, R. E., 326
cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish), 86, 488, 560, 599, 637, 665, 669–70, 687, 688, 692
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 499, 562
chaos theory, 487–8, 490n, 491
Charcot, Jean-Martin, 41, 41n
Charles Bonnet syndrome, 567
Chase, Elizabeth Sacks, 132n
Chatterjee, A., 520
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 85
Chekhov, Anton, 94, 270
chemistry, 417, 525, 554, 599
chemistry sets, 554, 645–6, 645n
early love for, 123, 397, 415, 484, 542–4, 547, 553, 571, 584, 593, 688n
see also elements, chemical
Chesterton, G. K., 287, 354, 354n, 413, 542
chloral hydrate, 103–6, 104n, 106n
Chomsky, Noam, 258, 459, 463, 447
Chopin, Frédéric, 95, 642
Chopra, Deepak, 592
Churchland, Patricia S., 439n
cinematic vision, 388, 436, 588–9, 588n
City Island, 370, 486n, 528n
clinical anthropology, 444–5
clinical ontology, 319, 439
clinical practice, responsibility of, 23, 37, 38, 75, 76, 79, 534
Coates, Morag, 569, 569n
Cobbett, William, 666, 666n
coccidioidal meningitis, 40, 51
Cohen, Joanne, 518, 518n
Cohen, Kalman, 572, 572n
colchicine, 505
Cole, Jonathan, 303, 303n, 361, 492n, 499, 540
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 195, 195n, 419, 627, 635
Collins, Wilkie, 515
color
in dreams or imagery, 520, 535–7, 535n, 607
perception, 386, 401, 439, 463n, 464, 520n, 536–7, 586, 588, 607, 628, 636
in plants, 630–2, 630n
colorblindness (achromatopsia), 401, 432–6, 433n, 439, 441, 463, 506, 508, 517–18, 518n, 520, 536, 589, 591, 603, 607, 632
Columbia University, 644, 644n
coma, 427, 558, 599
communities, 363, 465, 501–3, 517–18, 540, 551
Deaf, 469, 480, 556
intellectual, 399, 407
religious, 444n, 450
therapeutic for mentally ill, 617, 652–3, 659, 661
competition in science, 543–5
computers, avoidance of, 509, 658, 664
concentration camps, 271, 271n
consciousness
autobiographical, 687
biographical vs. biological, 560–1
in great apes, 302, 560, 562, 687
