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CHAPTER 7: ON THE ROAD AGAIN

4 “That’s nice to have at seven in the morning”: “Basking in Basque Country,” Spain… on the Road Again, PBS, New York, original broadcast date October 18, 2008.

CHAPTER 8: OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE

5 complex partial seizures: Epilepsy Foundation, “Temporal Lobe Epilepsy,” Epilepsyfoundation.org, http://www.epilep syfoundation.org/aboutepilepsy/syndromes/temporallobeepilepsy.cfm (accessed March 1, 2011). Temkin Owsei, The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971).

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