A review by meghan111
Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening by John Elder Robison

3.0

Surely at some point you've asked yourself, "Fucking magnets, how do they work?" While reading this, I was amazed at the straightforward and useful explanation of electromagnets. This account of transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for autism is interesting as it chronicles how the author's emotional perceptions changed after the course of treatments. In his 50s, he had decades of living to compare the differences to, and his realizations are striking. Descriptions of the treatments themselves weren't hard to read, unless like me you hate reading about medical settings - white coat syndrome for literature. So I skipped some of it.