6 range from a “Christmas morning”: Alice W. Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block and the Creative Brain (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 27.
7 religious experiences: Akira Ogata and Taihei Miyakawa, “Religious Experience in Epileptic Patients with Focus on Ictal-Related Episodes,” Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 52 (1998): 321–325, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1440–1819.1998.00397.x/pdf.
8 A small subset of those with temporal lobe epilepsy: Shahar Arzy, Gregor Thut, Christine Mohr, Christoph M. Michel, and Olaf Blanke, “Neural Basis of Embodiment: Distinct Contributions of Temporoparietal Junction and Extrastriate Body Area,” Journal of Neuroscience 26 (2006): 8074–8081.
CHAPTER 9: A TOUCH OF MADNESS
9 best places to live in America by Money magazine: CNN Money, “Best Places to Live: 2005,” Money.CNN.com, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2005/snapshots/30683.html (accessed Thursday, April 12, 2012).
10 “a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in moods”: National Institutes of Health, “Bipolar Disorder,” NIH.gov, http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/bipolar-disorder/nimh-bipolar-adults.pdf (accessed March 14, 2009).
11 Jim Carrey, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Vivien Leigh, Ludwig van Beethoven, Tim Burton: Bipolar Disorder Today, “Famous People with Bipolar Disorder,” Mental-Health-Today.com, http://www.mental-health-today.com/bp/famous_people.htm (accessed March 14, 2009).
CHAPTER 15: THE CAPGRAS DELUSION
12 her husband had become a “double”: Orin Devinsky, “Delusional Misidentifications and Duplications,” Neurology 72 (2009): 80–87.
13 revealed that Capgras delusions: Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, “Seeing Imposters: When Loved Ones Suddenly Aren’t,” NPR, March 30, 2010, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124745692 (accessed May 4, 2011). V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (New York: Morrow, 1998), 161–171.
CHAPTER 16: POSTICTAL FURY
14 twelve hours or as long as three months: Orin Devinsky, “Postictal Psychosis: Common, Dangerous, and Treatable,” Epilepsy Currents, February 26, 2008, 31–34. Kenneth Alper et al., “Premorbid Psychiatric Risk Factors for Postictal Psychosis,” Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 13 (2001): 492–499. Akira Ogata and Taihei Miyakawa, “Religious Experience in Epileptic Patients with Focus on Ictal-Related Episodes,” Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 52 (1998): 321–325.
15 “postictal fury”: S. J. Logsdail and B. K. Toone, “Post-Ictal Psychoses: A Clinical and Phenomenological Description,” British Journal of Psychiatry 152 (1988): 246–252.
16 A quarter of psychotic people: Michael Trimble, Andy Kanner, and Bettina Schmitz, “Postictal Psychosis,” Epilepsy and Behavior 19 (2010): 159–161.
CHAPTER 17: MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER
17 I was within the age range for psychotic breaks: The New York Times Health Guide, “Schizophrenia,” Health.nytimes.com, http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/schizophrenia/risk-factors.html (accessed February 20, 2010).
18 dissociative identity disorder (DID): “Dissociative Identity Disorder,” in American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—IV (Text Revision) (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2 000), 526–529.
19 On of a scale from 1 (most dire cases) to 100: “Bipolar Disorder,” in ibid.
CHAPTER 18: BREAKING NEWS
20 “Like a bolt from the blue”: P. A. Pichot, “A Comparison of Different National Concepts of Schizoaffective Psychosis,” in Schizoaffective Psychoses (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986), 8–16. A. Marneros and M. T. Tsuang, “Schizoaffective Questions and Directions,” in Schizoaffective Psychoses (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986).
21 “uninterrupted period of illness during”: American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—IV (Text Revision) (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000), 319–323.
CHAPTER 21: DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS
22 In 1933, a bicycle struck seven-year-old Henry Gustav Molaison: Luke Dittrich, “The Brain That Changed Everything,” Esquire.com, October 5, 2010, www.esquire.com/features/henry-molaison-brain-1110 (accessed May 8, 2011). “Histopathological Examination of the Brain of Amnesiac Patient H.M.,” Brain Observatory, August 18, 2010, http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/content/histopathological-examination-brain-amnesic-patient-hm (accessed May 8, 2011). William Beecher Scoville and Brenda Milner, “Loss of Recent Memory after Bilateral Hippocampal Lesions,” Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 20 (1957): 11–21. Benedict Carey, “H.M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82,” New York Times, December 5, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html?pagewanted=all (accessed May 8, 2011).
23 “Clive was under the constant impression”: Deborah Wearing, Forever Today: A True Story of Lost Memory and Never-Ending Love (London: Corgi, 2006).
24 “I haven’t heard anything”: Oliver Sacks, “The Abyss: Music and Amnesia,” New Yorker, September 24, 2007, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks (accessed September 13, 2011).
CHAPTER 22: A BEAUTIFUL MESS
25 At the top of the spinal cord and at the underside of the brain: Michael O’Shea, The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Rita Carter, Susan Aldridge, Martyn Page, and Steve Parker, The Human Brain Book (London: DK Adult, 2009). Stephen G. Waxman, Clinical Neuroanatomy, Twenty-Sixth Edition (New York: McGraw Hill, 2010).
26 “The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess”: William F. Allman, Apprentices of Wonder: Inside the Neural Network Revolution (New York: Bantam, 1989), 3.
CHAPTER 24: IVIG
27 IVIG is made up of serum antibodies: Falk Nimmerjahn and Jeffrey V. Ravetch, “The Anti-Inflammatory Activity of IgG: The Intravenous IgG Paradox,” Journal of Experimental Medicine 204 (2007): 11–15. Arturo Casadevall, Ekaterina Dadachova, and Liise-Anne Pirofski, “Passive Antibody Therapy for Infectious Diseases,” Nature Reviews Microbiology 2 (2004): 695–703. Noah S. Scheinfeld, “Intravenous Immunoglobulin,” Medscape Reference, http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/210367-overview (accessed May 8, 2011).