John Elder Robison's Blog

• A summary of my essays on TMS

  November 12, 2008

  • Every day, I get questions about the TMS project I’ve gotten involved in at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. TMS stands for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. What’s that?

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• A summary of my essays on TMS and changing the way we think

  November 7, 2008

  • Every day, I get questions about the TMS project I’ve gotten involved in at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. TMS stands for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. What’s that?

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• The latest from the TMS lab

  October 29, 2008

  • It seems like I'm driving to Boston every week nowadays!  If you're in town next Wednesday, come say hi!  I'll be appearing at the Barnes & Noble, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave,

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• Fall is the season for car shows

  October 13, 2008

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• Authors at Google and me

  October 10, 2008

  • People online ask me about the kind of questions I'm asked at my speaking engagements.

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• Brain plasticity and how it affects us

  October 8, 2008

  • I have written and spoken about the tremendous potential for changing one’s life in a positive way through brain plasticity. All of us have and use brain plasticity to some degree.

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• It's time to say goodbye to the west coast

  September 28, 2008

  • It’s time to say goodbye to the west coast. It’s hard to believe I’ve been out here a whole week.
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• Mexicans, Aspergians, and history

  September 25, 2008

  • There was a Mexican couple at one of my last appearances, and we talked about the way Aspergian traits seem to be inherited.

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• News from the road, fresh from Hollywood

  September 22, 2008

  • I’ve just spent a wonderful evening with the folks at Book Soup here in West Hollywood. I was also able to have dinner with blogger Kanani Fong and her Writerly Pause group . . .

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• The start of the tour

  September 12, 2008

  • The first stop on the Look Me in the Eye paperback tour was River Run books in Portsmouth, NH. I told stories, answered questions, and signed books for a few hours, starting at 7PM.
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• The start of the book tour

  September 10, 2008

  • At long last, the new and improved paperback is on sale

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• Why do people read Look Me in the Eye?

  September 7, 2008

  • Some books are written just to entertain. If the book is enjoyable to read on a cool fall night, that’s enough. I enjoy reading books like that sometimes, but as an author, I want more.

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• A day at the Fair

  August 31, 2008

  • As August comes to an end, Fair Season begins. I stopped by Northampton's Tri Country Fair today, and shot some pictures . . .
    

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• What is smart?

  August 25, 2008

  • I have a friend who’s a sales manager for a technology company. They have a small staff that designs technologically complex products that only geeks understand.

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• A day with the shrinks

  August 18, 2008

  • There I was, a free range Aspergian in a room full of shrinks.

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