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Language English Media type Hardcover ISBN 978-0812996890 Publisher Spiegel & Grau | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date March 22, 2016 Pages 320 pp. Originally published 22 March 2016 Genre Memoir Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening is a work of nonfiction by John Elder Robison, chronicling the author's participation in a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study along with its after effects.
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Published in 2016 by Spiegel & Grau, Switched On describes Robison's participation in a 2008 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study under Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone at Harvard University. He claimed that TMS put his brain into a meditative state. Robison wrote that he felt more emotionally attuned to his environment and had an easier time reading people's emotions. However, the effects eventually faded. Additionally, the treatment led to him feeling more sensitive to his wife's depression and to an eventual divorce.
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Switched On (book) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA