Richard Cytowic

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Richard Cytowic is affiliated with the following schools: Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University, Hun School of Princeton, Georgetown University

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#467

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#639

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#188

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Neurology

#101

World Rank

#155

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#33

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Bachelors Psychology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Richard E. Cytowic is an American neurologist and author who rekindled interest in synesthesia in the 1980s and returned it to mainstream science. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times Magazine cover story about James Brady, the Presidential Press Secretary shot in the brain during the assassination attempt on President Reagan. Cytowic’s writing ranges from textbooks and music reviews, to his Metro Weekly "Love Doctor" essays and brief medical biographies of Anton Chekhov, Maurice Ravel and Virginia Woolf. His work is the subject of two BBC Horizon documentaries, “Orange Sherbert Kisses” and “Derek Tastes of Earwax” .

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Richard Cytowic's Published Works

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Published Works

Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (2009) (255)
Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses (1989) (238)
The Man Who Tasted Shapes (2003) (195)
Synesthesia: A union of the senses, 2nd ed. (2002) (128)
Cognitive Aspects of Pain (1990) (92)
Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology A Review of Current Knowledge (1995) (83)
Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology (2008) (80)
Synesthesia II. Psychophysical relations in the synesthesia of geometrically shaped taste and colored hearing (1982) (77)
Synesthesia I. A review of major theories and their brain basis (1982) (55)
The Man Who Tasted Shapes: A Bizarre Medical Mystery Offers Revolutionary Insights Into Emotions, Reasoning, and Consciousness (1994) (46)
The neurological side of neuropsychology (1996) (37)
Touching Tastes, Seeing Smells—and Shaking up Brain Science What Defines Synesthesia? Involuntary and Automatic (2003) (25)
Transient amenorrhea after closed head trauma. (1986) (17)
Your hidden superpowers (2010) (13)
Closed Head Trauma: Somatic, Ophthalmic, and Cognitive Impairments in Nonhospitalized Patients (1988) (12)
Chronic relapsing polyneuropathy associated with immunoblastic lymphadenopathy. (1982) (8)
Aphasia in Maurice Ravel. (1976) (6)
Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychologyof Current Knowledge (1995) (5)
Nerve Block for Common Pain (1990) (4)
Synesthesia and language (1989) (4)
Space and the Senses: (2015) (2)
TASTING COLORS, SMELLING SOUNDS (1988) (2)
Synesthesia and Art (1989) (1)
“We are on to something real and fundamental.” An interview with Richard E. Cytowic (2014) (1)
Theories of Synesthesia: A Review and a New Proposal (1989) (1)
Pragmatic Neuropsychology A Review of The Neurological Side Of Neuropsychology (1997) (1)
The Neural Substrates of Synesthesia (1989) (0)
More than You Know@@@Out of Mind: Varieties of Unconscious Processes (2004) (0)
Anton Chekhov: a physician-genius in spite of himself. (1975) (0)
CHAPTER 5 SYNAESTHESIA , FUNCTIONALISM AND PHENOMENOLOGY (2010) (0)
What Is Real (1989) (0)
Anton Chekhov: A physician-genius in spite of himself. Part III. (1975) (0)
Richard Cytowic's book The Man Who Tasted Shapes Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology A Review of Current Knowledge (2018) (0)
Synesthesia in the Twentieth Century (2013) (0)
General Techniques and Indications (1990) (0)
The Muscular Origin of Pain (1990) (0)
Synesthetes Speak for Themselves (1989) (0)
Synesthesia and Personality (1989) (0)
Overlaps: To What Is Synesthesia Similar? (1989) (0)
Anton Chekhov: A physician-genius in spite of himself. Part II. (1975) (0)
Stalking the wild influenza. (1977) (0)
Anton Chekhov: a physician-genius in spite of himself. Part IV. (1976) (0)
HEARING COLORS AND TASTING SHAPES : A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE BRAIN (2006) (0)

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