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Index
acquired savant syndrome
artificially induced, [>]–[>]
body language awareness and, [>]–[>]
Brogaard’s theory on, [>]
discovery of, [>]–[>]
examples of, [>]–[>]
as halfway savants, [>], [>]
innate skills and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
from TBIs, [>]–[>], [>]
technology, [>]–[>]
Treffer’s theory on, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
adrenaline, [>]
aesthetics, [>]–[>]
agoraphobia, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Alaska oil fields, [>]–[>]
Amato, Derek, [>]
American Synesthesia Association (ASA), [>]
anatomy
geometry of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
quantum level optics and, [>]–[>]
anesthetization, [>]
Angela (friend)
at assault, [>]–[>]
new friendship of, [>]–[>]
old friendship of, [>]–[>]
antidepressants, [>]–[>]
anxiety, [>]–[>], [>]. See also stress
Archimedes, [>], [>]
Arizona, University of, Center for Consciousness Studies, [>]–[>]
art shows, [>]–[>]
artists. See also drawings
savant, [>]–[>], [>]
synesthete, [>]
ASA. See American Synesthesia Association
Australia, University of Sydney, Centre for the Mind, [>]
autistic savantism, [>], [>]–[>]
Ayotte, Greg, [>]
back injuries, [>], [>]–[>]
Barnsley, Michael Fielding, [>]
Baron-Cohen, Simon, [>]
Barrio, Jorge, [>]–[>]
Baylor, Denis, [>]
beauty, [>]–[>]
Beckmann, Petr, [>]–[>]
Berners-Lee, Timothy, [>]
Bialek, William, [>]
bipolar disorder, [>]–[>], [>]
body language awareness, [>]–[>]
boredom, [>], [>]
Born on a Blue Day (Tammet), [>]
BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative, [>]–[>]
brain injury. See neuroscience; traumatic brain injuries
Brame, David, [>]
Brogaard, Berit
meeting, [>]–[>], [>]
synesthesia testing by, [>]–[>]
theories of, [>], [>]
Bushell, William C., [>]–[>]
Cailliau, Robert, [>]
calculus, [>], [>]
California, University of, Irvine, [>]
celebrities, synesthete, [>]
cerebral palsy, [>]–[>]
Charlie Daniels Band, [>]
children, synesthesia in, [>], [>]
Cicoria, Tony, [>]–[>]
circles, [>]–[>]. See also pi
Clarke, Arthur C., [>]–[>]
Clemons, Alonzo, [>]–[>], [>]
colors
music as, [>], [>]–[>]
numbers as, [>]–[>], [>]
pain as, [>], [>]
The Colours of Infinity, [>]–[>]
communication
body language, [>]–[>]
cerebral palsy, [>]–[>]
improvement in, [>]
math conversations, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
after TBIs, [>]
concussions, [>]–[>], [>]. See also traumatic brain injuries
conference. See Stockholm consciousness conference
consciousness
conference, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
enlightenment, [>]–[>]
quantum foam and, [>]
synesthesia and, [>]
Consciousness Chronicles, [>]
Cordova, Rick, [>]
cosine waves, [>]
cosmology, [>]–[>]. See also universe
creation, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
creativity cap, [>]–[>]
Crichton, John (fictional), [>]
Cytowic, Richard, [>]–[>], [>]
Day, Nick, [>]–[>], [>]
decision making, [>], [>]
depression, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
“The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” [>]
Dilaudid, [>]
distraction, pain management by, [>], [>]
documentaries, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Dōgen (Zen master), [>]
Doppler effect, [>]
dorsal stream, [>]
Down, John Langdon, [>]–[>]
drawings
complexity of, [>]
inability to make, [>], [>]
innate skills for, [>]
in international art shows, [>]–[>]
meditation-induced, [>]–[>]
to music, [>]
nautilus, [>]–[>]
neurologist’s view of, [>]–[>]
pentagon, [>]–[>]
pi, [>]–[>]
prime numbers, [>]–[>]
of religious concepts, [>]
sharing, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Stockholm conference presentation of, [>]–[>]
of supernovas, [>]–[>]
synesthesia testing with, [>]–[>]
theory of relativity, [>]
video capture of, [>]–[>]
wave-particle duality, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
drugs
antidepressant, [>]–[>]
pain management by, [>], [>]
synesthesia induced by, [>]–[>]
Duffy, Patricia Lynne, [>]–[>]
Eagleman, David, [>]–[>]
Eiffel, Gustave, [>]
Einstein, Albert, [>], [>], [>]
emotion
body language awareness and, [>]
boredom, [>], [>]
mirror-touch synesthesia of, [>]
pain management, [>]–[>]
enlightenment, [>]–[>]
epinephrine, [>]
exercise
adrenaline from, [>]
for pain management, [>]–[>]
Farscape, [>]
fasciculation syndrome, [>], [>]–[>]
females, savant, [>]
Feynman, Richard, [>]
fight-or-flight response, [>], [>]
Finland, synesthesia testing in, [>]–[>]
Firman, Carrie C., [>], [>]
fMRIs (functional magnetic resonance imaging), [>], [>], [>]–[>]
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Mandelbrot), [>]
fractals
applications of, [>], [>]
discovery of, [>]–[>]
importance of,
[>]–[>], [>]
mathematics of, [>]
nautilus, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
of particle fusion, [>]–[>]
quantum foam and, [>]–[>]
of space-time, [>]–[>]
universe as, [>]–[>], [>]
free will, [>]
functional magnetic resonance imaging. See fMRIs
fusion, particle, [>]–[>]
Futon Gallery, [>]. See also Planet Futon
Gage, Phineas, [>]–[>]
Galilei, Galileo, [>]
genetic memory, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
geometry. See also fractals
of anatomy, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
beauty of, [>]–[>]
of circles, [>]–[>]
computer-assisted, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
dreams of, [>]
drug-induced visions of, [>]–[>]
mathematics versus, [>]
of music, [>]
of numbers, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
of particle fusion, [>]–[>]
of pentagons, [>]–[>]
of pi, [>], [>]–[>]
of pixels, [>]–[>]
of Planck length, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
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