Royal College of Physicians, 643n

  Royal Society, 233, 233n, 535

  Ruggiero, Theresa, 605, 607

  Russell, Bertrand, 10, 10n, 129, 137, 499, 532, 576, 606, 615

  Rust, Ted, 494

  Rutherford, Ernest, 424, 424n

  Rutherford, Susan, 467

  S

  sabbath, 394, 548, 656, 690, 691

  Sacks, Bennie, 260n

  Sacks, David (brother), 48, 48n, 67–8, 78, 114, 119–20, 132, 132n, 151, 167, 204, 210, 216, 217, 260, 261, 261n, 329n, 582, 677

  Sacks, Elliot, 665, 692

  Sacks, Elsie (mother), 4, 15, 19, 21, 28, 30, 31n, 32, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60, 67–8, 73, 76, 79, 80, 111, 114, 116–17, 120, 122, 129, 133, 149, 150, 151, 152, 157, 166, 176, 187, 203, 212, 217, 218, 219, 261, 509

  Sacks, Gay, 67–8, 78, 115, 119, 205, 214, 508, 665, 691, 691n

  Sacks, Jonathan, 329n

  Sacks, Lillie, 48

  Sacks, Marcus (brother), 59–60, 59n, 66, 78, 114, 115, 206, 211, 212, 261, 261n, 508, 603, 656, 665n, 691, 691n

  Sacks, Michael (brother), 8n, 14n, 29, 29n, 32–3, 48, 57, 59, 67, 68, 69n, 78–9, 111, 113, 114, 119–20, 120n, 123, 130–3, 138, 151, 172, 172n, 184n, 213, 216, 217, 260, 311, 432, 582

  Sacks, Oliver Wolf (grandfather), 219

  Sacks, Samuel (father), 4, 15, 19, 21, 28, 30, 32, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60, 67–8, 73, 76, 79, 80, 111, 117, 120, 122, 129, 133, 149, 150, 151, 152, 157, 166, 176, 187, 203, 212–14, 259, 312, 329, 422, 431

  Sagan, Carl, 533, 534n

  St. Paul’s School, 24

  sakau, 539, 539n, 566, 588

  Salk Institute, 529, 529n, 603n

  Salter, Leon, 186

  Samuel, Alison, 541

  Samuel, Caroline Sacks, 261, 261n

  Sarah Lawrence College, 422

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 252n, 472

  savant talents, 396, 639

  see also Dase, Zacharias; Finn, Charles and George; Wiltshire, Stephen

  Schaller, Susan, 464, 465, 529

  Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 595, 595n

  Scheinberg, Labe, 149, 179, 365n

  schizophrenia, xiii, 13, 29n, 78, 105, 113, 132, 138, 140, 171n, 172, 174, 203n, 263, 293, 419n, 568, 596–7, 617, 634n, 659, 660–1

  see also Sacks, Michael

  Scholem, Gershom, 296, 296n, 574

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 222

  Schreber, Daniel Paul, 171, 171n

  Schrödinger, Erwin, 681

  Schubert, Franz, 218

  Schumann, Robert, 95

  sciatica, 604, 659, 659n

  Scientific American, 291, 291n, 529, 687

  scotoma, 588-9, 636-7

  Screwtape Letters, The (Lewis), 196

  scuba, 43, 57, 58, 258, 492, 539

  sea anemones, 86, 665

  Seeing Voices, 461, 461n, 463n, 469, 474, 482, 678

  seizures, 20n, 51, 56n, 331, 589, 621, 639–41

  Selenites, 598

  self-organization, see chaos theory

  Selig, Richard, 98, 98n, 100

  sentience, 225n, 345, 672, 687, 688

  Seymour L., 238

  Shapiro, Arthur K., 454, 454n

  Shapiro, Harvey, 331, 337, 558n

  Shatan, Chaim F., 402

  Shearer, Rhonda, 550

  Sheflen, Albert, 300, 300n

  Shemansky, Norbert, 578

  Shengold, Leonard, 110, 110n, 121, 128, 158, 158n, 269, 272n, 351, 360, 386, 401, 426–9, 466, 667

  Shenker, Israel, 159, 164, 164n, 292

  Sheppard, Dave, 145, 169, 577, 578, 578n

  Sherrington, Charles Scott, 106, 106n

  shiva, 211, 213–15, 217–19

  Shubin, Neil, 647, 647n

  side effects, 186–7

  Siegel, Ralph, 463, 464, 464n, 500, 585, 592, 603, 603n, 606, 656, 691

  Silber, Austin, 121

  Silberling, Edwyn, 380

  Silberman, James H., 385n, 411n, 421

  Silvers, Robert B., 314, 314n, 395, 396, 399, 458, 461n, 608, 677, 693, 694

  Singer, Charles, 39, 39n

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 63n

  Singer, Peter, 557

  Sitwell, Edith, 196n

  Sitwell, Osbert, 196, 196n

  Six-Day War, 129

  Skinner, B. F., 261

  smell, descriptions of, 4, 18, 45, 54, 85, 185, 449, 547–8

  Smith, Steven, 395, 396, 396n

  Snellgrove, Martin, 256

  Snow, C. P., 522n

  Social and Health Issues Review, editors, 439

  social media, 689

  solitude, 23, 32, 213, 217, 243, 265, 407, 477, 651, 658

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr, 270

  Sontag, Susan, 397, 398, 443, 443n, 444n, 549, 549n, 608

  Southam, Brian, 234

  space, perception of, 226–31, 256, 278–9, 289, 388, 588n

  space travel, see Ivins, Marsha

  speeding ticket, 71–2

  Speke, John Hanning, 368, 368n

  Spender, Stephen, 260n, 291

  Spinoza, Baruch, 168, 173, 238, 383, 574, 627

  Stanford Medical School, 17

  Star-Trek, 315, 315n, 448n

  Stastny, Peter, 670

  Stein, Robert C., 670

  Steinbeck, John, 27, 27n

  stem-cell therapy, 555

  Stent, Gunther, 291, 291n

  Stephan, Karl D., 570

  stereovision, 278, 536, 586, 588, 605–8

  Stern, Doug, 651n, 678

  Stern, Gerald, 390, 490

  Stern, Isaac, 205, 205n

  Stokoe, William, 449, 449n

  Stollman, Aryeh Lev, 620n

  Stone, Sharon, 611

  Stopes, Marie, 544

  Storr, Anthony, 658

  Stow, Cyrus J., 406

  Strauss, Richard, 95

  Stravinsky, Igor, 137

  Strawson, Galen, 408

  strikes

  antiwar, 176

  hospital employees, 245, 245n, 344, 362, 403–4

  transit workers, 112, 112n, 224

  Writers Guild, 375

  strobe effect, 386–8, 438, 589

  students, former, see Cole, Jonathan; Jellinek, Michael; Kurtis, Jonathan

  suicide, 113, 121, 139, 265, 267, 270, 419, 558, 567–9, 601, 635

  Süskind, Patrick, 547

  Sutherland, Lin, 549

  Swales, Peter, 543

  Swann, William, 506

  Sweet, Victoria, 688

  Swift, Jonathan, 473

  swimming, 10, 20, 27, 49, 50, 52, 54, 68, 117, 125, 162, 199, 204, 205–6, 207, 271, 358, 370, 410, 419, 437n, 480, 492, 496, 508, 519, 539, 549, 557, 578, 579, 580, 609, 627, 629, 645, 651, 651n, 660, 663, 667, 678n, 679, 684

  Sylvester, James Joseph, 226

  symmetry, 350–1

  Szasz, Thomas, 569

  T

  Tanaka, Gayle, 618

  Tannen, Deborah, 541

  taxonomy, 488

  teachers, model, 49, 183n, 248, 321, 498

  teaching, xi, 83, 124–5, 129, 132, 135, 179, 207, 283, 303–4, 565, 570

  telephone calls, 62, 62n

  television, power of, 448–9

  Terkel, Studs, 617

  Terry, Robert, 80–1, 80n, 87, 100, 101

  thanksgiving, 376, 379

  see also gratitude

  Thanksgiving holiday, 30

  therapeutic community, 617, 652–3, 659, 661

  therapy, 372, 373, 454

  behavioral, 505

  gene, 555

  horticultural and nature, 86, 632

  music, 493, 494n

  physical, 642

  speech, 290n

  Theroux, Paul, 525

  Threepenny Review, 609n

  Thurber, James, 16n, 598

  Ticciati, Francesco, 95

  Tighe, Lillian, 486

  tikkun, 296, 324

  time

  perception of, 289, 388, 403, 446

  writing about, 586–7, 590

  Tolstoy, Leo, 196, 268, 328, 496

  Tomaino, Concetta, 494n, 541n

  tongue movement, 180

  Tononi, Giulio, 586, 586n

  topagnosia, 614, 614n

  Topanga Canyon, 62, 63, 64, 77, 82–3, 127, 145

  Tourette book, unwritten, 413, 421, 427, 475

  Tourette’s syndrome, xii, 246n, 292–4, 297, 298–302, 338–9, 412, 412n, 444–6, 450–7, 471, 471n, 477–8, 481–2, 504–5, 518n, 519, 539, 547, 556, 568–9, 615, 620, 644

  Tourette Syndrome Association, 298

  tracheotomy episode, 331

  train journeys, 47, 61, 63, 198–9, 226, 241, 251, 385, 648

  transcranial magnetic stimulation, 589, 592

  “Travel Happy,” 36n, 45n, 208n, 241, 249

  Trilling, Lionel, 63, 63n

  Tunberg, William, 65

  Turner, Paul, 181, 181n

  Twain, Mark, 95

  U

  UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), arrival at, 42

  UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), 475n

  Urbain, Georges, 545

  V

  Valvo, Alberto, 512

  van de Wetering, Ben, 455

  van Gogh, Vincent, 87, 520

  Villon, François, 98

  Vincze, Jenö, 84, 89, 92, 93, 94, 96, 101, 107, 252

  vision

  cinematic, 436, 438, 588–9, 588n, 591–2

  impaired (OS), 623, 625, 629n, 636, 645, 660

  visual cortex, 462n, 520n, 536, 537, 567, 629, 630

  von Bonin, Gerhardt, 26, 56, 56n, 77

  von Neumann, John, 537, 537n

  Vygotsky, Lev, 261

  W

  Wagner, Richard (composer), 95

  Wagner, Richard (priest), 686

  Ward 23, 270, 272n, 653

  see also Bronx Psychiatric Center

  Warvarovsky, Mike, 137, 138, 138n, 143, 146, 154, 167, 169

  Warwick, University of, 684n

  Washington Square Hotel (Hotel Earle), 84n

  Wasserman, Robert, 387, 441–2, 463, 603, 606–7, 608

  Watson, James, 415n, 416, 435

  Waymouth, Barbara, 184

  weightlifting, 3, 16, 29, 43, 46, 64, 64n, 65, 69, 169, 508, 578n

  Weil, Simone, 341, 341n, 351, 362, 454

  Weir, Peter, 470, 470n

  Wells, H. G., 39, 39n, 57, 443, 542, 598–90

  Welsbach, Carl Auer von, 544, 544n

  Wendy, 634

  Weschler, Lawrence, 252n, 381, 381n, 393, 400, 403, 517n

  West, Bill “Peanuts,” 65n

  Whitby, Max, 600n

  Whittington, Dick, 127, 127n

  Whitzman, Stephen, 621

  Whytt, Robert, 143

  Wiesel, Torsten, 462, 462n, 464

  Wild Boy of Aveyron, 468

  Williams, Robin, 470, 470n, 471n, 477

  Williams syndrome, 561

  Willis, Thomas, 143