Kostiner at, [>]–[>]
Padgett’s invitation to, [>]–[>]
Padgett’s presentation at, [>]–[>]
presenters, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Snyder at, [>]–[>]
synesthetes at, [>]–[>]
Theise at, [>]–[>]
stress
coping ability, [>]–[>]
fight-or-flight response, [>], [>]
pain management and, [>]
PTSD, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
string theory, [>]
Stroop, John Ridley, [>]
suicidal tendencies, [>]
Sunny (therapy participant), [>]–[>]
supernovas, [>]–[>]
Sweden. See Stockholm consciousness conference
Swiney (Alaskan oil field boss), [>]–[>]
Sydney, University of, Centre for the Mind, [>]
Symphony of Science, [>]
synesthesia
artists with, [>]
Dr. Bushell’s theories on, [>]–[>]
in children, [>], [>]
community, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
consciousness and, [>]
drug-induced, [>]–[>]
enlightenment and, [>]–[>]
examples of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
fasciculation and, [>]
in foreign country, [>]–[>]
Internet development and, [>]
literary, [>]–[>]
lower and higher, [>]–[>]
mathematics and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
mirror-touch, [>]–[>]
mnemonics and, [>]–[>]
motion-to-hearing, [>]
musical, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
neuroscience of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
pain management and, [>]
pain-to-color, [>]
photisms seen by, [>]–[>]
psychology for, [>]–[>]
testing for, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Dr. Theise’s theories on, [>]–[>]
YouTube recognition of, [>]
Synesthesia Gang, [>]–[>]
Synowiec, Paul, [>], [>], [>]
Tacoma Community College, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Tammet, Daniel, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
tangent waves, [>]
tau protein, [>]
TBIs. See traumatic brain injuries
technology
artificially acquired savantism, [>]–[>]
brain-imaging, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
geometry and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
MRI, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
photography, [>]–[>]
self-modulation, [>]–[>]
transcranial direct-current stimulation, [>]
transcranial magnetic stimulation, [>], [>]–[>]
television
education via, [>]–[>]
pixelation and circles, [>]–[>]
synesthesia neurology and, [>]
testing. See also medical treatment and studies
for artificially acquired savantism, [>]–[>]
for synesthesia, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
for TBIs, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
That Which Cannot Be Said with Words (Firman), [>]
Theise, Neil, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
therapy
for depression, [>]–[>], [>]
drugs as, [>]–[>]
pain management group, [>]–[>]
for synesthetes, [>]–[>]
Thurman, Robert, [>]
Tibetan lamas, [>], [>]
TMS. See transcranial magnetic stimulation
Toni (Mom), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Toward a Science of Consciousness. See Stockholm consciousness conference
transcranial direct-current stimulation, [>]
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), [>], [>]–[>]
traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
acquired savantism from, [>]–[>], [>]
communication after, [>]
depression from, [>]–[>]
fasciculation syndrome and, [>], [>]–[>]
geometric perspective from, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
healing from, [>]
long-term memory and, [>]–[>]
media coverage of, [>]
neuroscience of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
personality change from, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
side effects of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
testing for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Tredgold, A. F., [>]
trees, geometry of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Treffert, Darold
sessions with, [>], [>]–[>]
theories of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
tremors, [>], [>]–[>]
triangles, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
trust, [>]
universe
aesthetic truths of, [>]–[>]
fractal nature of, [>]–[>], [>]
parallel, [>], [>]
self-assembly of, [>]–[>]
supernovas in, [>]–[>]
University of Arizona, Center for Consciousness Studies, [>]–[>]
University of California, Irvine, [>]
University of Sydney, Centre for the Mind, [>]
visual cortex, [>], [>]
water, geometry of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
wave-particle duality, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
weight-lifting, [>]–[>]
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Feynman), [>]
Wheeler, John Archibald, [>]
whiplash, [>]–[>]
Wisconsin, Treffert’s work in, [>]–[>]
World Wide Web, [>]
Xanax, [>]
yogis, [>], [>]
YouTube, drawings captured on, [>]–[>]
Zoloft, [>]
About the Authors
JASON PADGETT is an aspiring number theorist and mathematician with acquired savant syndrome and synesthesia. He is currently the manager of three futon stores in Tacoma, Washington. His art, drawings of the grids and fractals he sees synesthetically, won Best International Newcomer at the Artoconecto A-B(o)MB show at the Bakehouse Art Complex in 2008. Struck by Genius is his first book.
MAUREEN SEABERG is an author with several forms of synesthesia and is an expert synesthesia blogger for Psychology Today. She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, and ESPN: The Magazine. She has appeared on MSNBC, PBS, and The Lisa Oz Show on Oprah Radio. A native New Yorker, she currently resides in the city.
Footnotes
1. Some of the dates on the following illustrations are later than this time because I continually worked to perfect them over several years. I present the best of the updated renderings here.
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