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Fighting Fake News

The Neurodiversity Podcast

When your inner skeptic constantly nags at you saying something’s not right, what should you do? Dr. Brian Housand thinks you should celebrate.

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Is Synesthesia a Brain Disorder?

In a provocative review paper, French neuroscientists Jean-Michel Hupé and Michel Dojat question the assumption that synesthesia is a neurological disorder.

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Neuroskeptic
2015
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Richard E. Cytowic: What Color Is Tuesday? Exploring Synesthesia

How does one experience synesthesia—the neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes may taste the number 9 or attach a color to each day of the week. Richard E. Cytowic explains the fascinating world of entangled senses and why we may all have just a touch of synesthesia.

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2013
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What It’s Like to Have Mirror Touch Synesthesia: A Doctor Who Literally Feels Your Pain

Dr. Joel Salinas is a neurologist who possesses a rare neurological trait himself: he has mirror touch synesthesia, a rare form of the perceptual condition that allows him to experience the same physical sensations and feelings as the people around him.

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2018
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The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

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Sidney Perkowitz
2021
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Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter “J” as shimmering magenta or the number “5” as emerald green, hear and taste her husband’s voice as buttery golden brown.

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Richard E. Cytowic, David M. Eagleman
2011
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Synesthesia

An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia—vividly felt sensory couplings—by a founder of the field.

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Richard E. Cytowic
2018
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Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies

What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia.

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Maureen Seaberg
2011
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Growing Up Digital: Life in A World of Networks and Screens

For nearly all of human history, communication and social interaction involved face-to-face contact. Now, screen-based digital devices mediate a substantial array of interactions.

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2019
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Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain

Working with the circuitry of the brain to restore emotional health and well-being.

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Sebern F. Fisher
2025
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The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential.

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Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, Jon Kabat-Zinn (preface)
2025
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