Beyond the Book: Look Me In The Eye

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[/imageframe][separator style_type=”none” top_margin=”10px” bottom_margin=”” sep_color=”” border_size=”” icon=”” icon_circle=”” icon_circle_color=”” width=”” alignment=”center” class=”” id=””][title size=”2″ content_align=”left” style_type=”none” sep_color=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]I Was A Human Guinea Pig[/title]

Living with Asperger’s, John Elder Robison had come to terms with the way he was different, riding life’s ups and downs. But what if it was possible to unlock the emotional insight that we assume is ‘missing’ in people living with Aspergers – if only you undertook an experimental brain therapy? Is that fixing?

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Though TMS is already being used to treat certain conditions, including depression, it is still in the experimental stage for autism. Robison participated in a six-month-long study, in which he received weekly TMS treatments. In an interview with NPR, John details the treatments — and the emotional awakening that resulted — and talks about his new memoir, Switched On.

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In a 2013 Presentation for the NIH, John Elder Robison talks about his experience with Asperger’s and how we should all strive to understand the things we can learn from those on the Autism spectrum, and how we should embrace our differences.

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John Elder Robison wasn’t the only one of his family members to write a memoir depicting his family and their life. Both his brother and mother have written their own version of reality. Learn more about each of their books as NPR highlights “One family, three memoirs, [and] many conflicting truths.”

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Francesca Rheannon sits down with author John Elder Robison and talks about his book, how he thinks, and how it relates to everyone who has ever felt like a social misfit with or without Asperger’s.

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Read for yourself the official statement given on February 1, 2010 by Johns Hopkins Medicine about HeLa cells and their use.

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