Switched On (book)

Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening is a work of nonfiction by John Elder Robison, chronicling the author's participation in a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study along with its after effects.

Published in 2016 by Spiegel & Grau, Switched On describes Robison's participation in a 2008 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study under Alvaro Pascual-Leone at Harvard University.

He claimed that TMS put his brain into a meditative state.

Additionally, the treatment led to him feeling more sensitive to his wife's depression and to an eventual divorce.

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