Conference Possibilities & Sources

Tourette’s Syndrome

Autobiographies:

Handler, Lowell (2004). Twitch and Shout. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MI

Wilensky, A. (2000). Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion. Broadway: New York.

Peters, Dylan (2007). Tic Talk: Living with Tourette Syndrome: A 9-Year-Old Boy’s Story in His Own Words. Little Five Star Books.

Novels:

Letham, Jonathan (2000). Motherless Brooklyn. Vintage: New York.

Epilepsy – Temporal Lobe

Novels:

Salzman, Mark (2001). Lying awake. Vintage Books: New York. PS3569.A4627 L95 2000

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1871). The Idiot.

Memoirs:

Fadiman, Anne (1998). The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Farrar, Straus & Giroux RA418.5.T73F33 1997

Tammet, Daniel (2006). Born on a blue day: A Memoir. Free Press: New York.

Academic Texts:

LaPlante, Eve (2000). Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon. Backinprint.com

A neurologist’s discussion of the temporal lobes:

http://amenclinics.com/bp/systems/temporal.php

Autism

Memoirs:

Grinker, Roy Richard (2007). Unstrange minds: Remapping the world of autism. Basic Books: New York.

Moore, Charlotte (2006). George and Sam: Two boys, one family, and autism. St. Martin’s Press.

Park, Clara Claiborne (1982). The Seige: A family’s journey into the world of an autistic child. Back Bay Books.

Park, Clara Claiborne (2002). Exiting Nirvana: A daughter’s life with autism. Back Bay Books. RC553.A88 P374 2001

Collins, Paul (2005). Not even wrong: A father’s journey into the lost history of autism. Bloomsbury.

Mont, Daniel (2002). A different kind of boy: A father’s memoir about raising a gifted child with autism. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Autiebiographies:

Grandin, Temple (1995). Thinking in Pictures, and other reports from my life with autism. RC553.A88 G74 1995

Tammet, Daniel (2006). Born on a blue day: Inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant. Free Press: New York.

Blackman, Lucy (2001). Lucy’s Story: Autism and other adventures. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Prince-Hughes, Dawn (2004). Songs of the gorilla nation. Harmony. RC553.A88 P756 2004

Schneider, Edgar (1999). Discovering my autism: apologia pro vita sua (with apologies to Cardinal Newman). Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Novels:

Haddon, Mark (2003). The strange incident of the dog in the nighttime. Doubleday. PR6058.A245 C87 2003

Bauer, Anne (2005). A wild ride up in the cupboards: a novel. Scribner

Leimbach, Marti (2007). Daniel Isn’t Talking. Anchor: New York. PS3562.E4614 D36 2006

Choldenko, Gennifer (2006). Al Capone Does My Shirts. Puffin (Young Adult Book – my 12-year-old son recommends it highly)

Moon, Elizabeth (2005). The Speed of Dark. Del Ray.

Cole, Christopher (2001). The Closer’s Song. XLibris Corporation.

Broder, Bill (2006). Taking Care of Cleo. Handsel Books.

Academic Texts:

Coleman, Mary (Ed.). (2005). The neurology of autism. Oxford University Press: New York.

Frith, Uta (2003). Autism; Explaining the enigma. Blackwell: New York. RJ506.A9 F695 2003

Baron-Cohen, Simon (1997). Mindblindness. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. BF444.B37 1997

Baron-Cohen, Simon, Tager-Flusberg, Helen & Cohen, Donald (2000). Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford University Press. RJ506.A9 U5 2000

Moldin, Steven & Rubenstein, John (2006). Understanding autism: from basic neuroscience to treatment. CDC.

Nadesan, Majia (2005). Constructing autism. Routledge.

Frith, Uta & Hill, Elisabeth (2004). Autism: Mind & Brain. Oxford University Press: New York.

Kellman, J. (2001). Autism, art and children. Bergin & Garvey: Westport, CT. RJ506.A9 K44 2001

Schreibman, Laura Ellen (2005). The Science and Fiction of Autism. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA. RC553.A88 S374 2005

Keen, Suzanne (2007). Empathy and the novel. Oxford University Press: New York.

Amnesia

Memoirs:

Bayley, John (1999). Elegy for Iris. Picador: New York.

Novels:

Livesey, Margot (2000). The Missing World

Krauss, Nicole (2002). Man walks into a room. Doubleday: New York.

Shainberg, Lawrence (1989). Memories of amnesia. Ivy Books.

Letham, Jonathan (2000). The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An anthology of writing on the subject of memory loss. Vintage: New York.

Academic Texts:

Papanicolaou, Andrew (2005). The Amnesias: A Clinical Textbook of Memory Disorders. Oxford University Press.

Schacter, Daniel (1996). Searching for memory.

Parkin, Alan (). Memory and Amnesia.

Dyslexia

Autobiographies:

Simpson, Eileen (1998). Reversals. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux: New York.

Memoirs:

Weinstein, Lisa (2003). Reading David. Perigree: New York.

Novels:

Kane, Stephanie (2004). Seeds of Doubt: A Crime Novel. Be warned – it’s a legal thriller with some gruesome details.

Agnosia

Case Study:

Aphasia

Memoir:

Hale, Sheila (2007). The Man Who Lost His Language. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Mills, Harrianne (2004). A Mind of My Own: A Memoir of Recovery from Aphasia. AuthorHouse.

Consciousness

Novels:

Lodge, David (2001). Thinks. Viking: New York

Academic Texts:

Dennett, Daniel (). Consciousness Explained.

Flanagan, Owen (). Consciousness Reconsidered.

Lodge, David (2002). Consciousness and the novel: Connected essays. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.

The Ethics of Life Writing

Academic Texts:

G. Thomas Cuser (2003). Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life-Writing. Cornell University Press. CT25 .C698 2004

The Inner Life of the Broken Brain: Narrative and Neurology. Anne Harrington interviewed by Natasha Mitchell for All in the Mind, an Australian radio program.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/stories/s1334384.htm