Fallen: A Trauma, a Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music (35 page)

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TED
talk entitled
My Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor, “My Stroke of Insight,”
TED
talk (February 2008), retrieved at
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
.

36
For most of us, there is only the unattended

T. S. Eliot,
The Four Quartets
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943). This passage belongs to the third of the four poems, “The Dry Salvages.”

50
pretend you are brave

Rachel Rose,
Notes on Arrival and Departure
(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005), p. 33.

70-73
Chapter Eleven: Animal Spirits

Finger,
Origins of Neuroscience,
pp. 16–20, 27; Nielsen and Tortora,
Principles of Human Anatomy,
pp. 571, 612, 616–17, 630.

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Martha Carson spiritual

Martha Carson, “You Can’t Stand Up Alone,” perf. Martha Carson,
Rock-a My Soul,
RCA Records, 1957, LP.

86
Keepers of private notebooks

Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook,”
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992), pp. 132–33.

97
In fact I had no idea why

Didion,
The Year of Magical Thinking,
p. 125.

98
The pineal gland is small

Nielsen and Tortora,
Principles of Human Anatomy,
p. 746.

98-99
René Descartes claimed as the soul’s conduit

Finger,
Origins of Neuroscience,
p. 26.

101
I buy her book

Jill B. Taylor,
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
(New York: Viking, 2008).

102-3
During the Enlightenment

Bunn, “The Spark of Being.” Dr. Bunn’s ten-part cultural history of the brain,
A History of the Brain
(BBC Radio 4, 2011), documents how political, philosophical, and cultural mores influenced and were influenced by scientific exploration into brain function over the course of centuries. This paragraph also developed through conversations with Lia Paradis, historian and Simon’s cousin. It was she who helped refine my examples of the democratization of knowledge and culture, pointing out the pivotal publications—Newton’s
Principia
and Diderot’s
Encyclopédie
—that bookended the Age of Reason.

103
Giovanni Lancisi

Finger,
Origins of Neuroscience,
p. 387.

120-21
The two hemispheres of the cerebrum

Nielsen and Tortora,
Principles of Human Anatomy,
pp. 630–31.

123-24
a second, more colorful picture

Condensed and adapted with permission from the author, Dr. Verna Amell; for the full analogy, please see the original source:

Understanding the Brain: A Pictorial Analogy Teaching Guide.
Analogy concept: Verna Amell, Ph.D., R. Psychologist. Artwork: Biomedical Communications, University of British Columbia.

Education material reproduced through Education Support at GF Strong Rehab Centre, 4255 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2G9, a Vancouver Coastal Health Site.

125–26
Franz Joseph Gall

Finger,
Origins of Neuroscience,
pp. 32–38. Systems neurophysiologist Miguel Nicolelis outlines his belief in phrenology’s foundational impact in the development of theories of cortical localization in his bold and stunning book detailing current, cutting-edge brain research
Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines—and How It Will Change Our Lives
(New York: Henry Holt, 2011); see pp. 6, 36, and 39. Further elaboration of the historical relationship between phrenology and cortical localization can be found in Geoff Bunn’s BBC Radio 4 series
The History of the Brain
in the segment entitled “The Beast Within” (November 2011).

126
Groundbreaking systems neurophysiologist Miguel Nicolelis

Nicolelis,
Beyond Boundaries,
pp. 5–7.

126
opposition to this idea has been sporadic but passionate

Finger,
Origins of Neuroscience,
pp. 35–36, 45, 48, and 53–54; Nicolelis,
Beyond Boundaries,
pp. 26–27, 45–47, and 189.

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there is no such strict separation

Stefan Koelsch, Thomas C. Gunter, Yves V. Cramon, Stefan Zysset, Gabriele Lohmann, and Angela D. Friederici, “Bach speaks: A cortical ‘language-network’ serves the processing of music,”
NeuroImage,
17 (2002): 956–66, doi:
10.1006/nimg.2002.1154
; Anthony Storr,
Music & the Mind
(London: HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 11–12; Steven Mithen,
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origin of Music, Language, Mind and Body
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 5, 26, and 178.

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It’s a hard way to find out that trouble is real

Gram Parsons and Bob Buchanan, “Hickory Wind,” perf. The Byrds,
Sweetheart of the Rodeo,
Columbia, 1968, LP.

129
Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Catherine Y. Wan and Gottfried Schlaug, “Music making as a tool for promoting brain plasticity across the life span,”
The Neuroscientist,
16 (2010): 566–77, doi: 10.1177/1073858410377805.

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Jill Bolte Taylor book

Bolte Taylor,
My Stroke of Insight.

148
British publication

Powell,
Head Injury: A Practical Guide.

172
Many would categorize
SCI

H. K. Krueger & Associates for the Rick Hansen Institute,
Spinal Cord Injury: Progress in Care and Outcomes in the Last 25 Years
(Delta,
BC
: Rick Hansen Institute, 2011), p. 5.

172–73
The spinal cord is the multilane pathway

Nielsen and Tortora,
Principles of Human Anatomy,
pp. 585–90. The very informative and comprehensive
Spinal Cord Injury Reference Manual
was given to Simon at
GF
Strong; it consists of material supplied by various
GF
Strong employees specific to clients living in British Columbia, as well as an extract from the Paralyzed Veterans of America’s manual: Margaret C. Hammond,
Yes, You Can! A Guide to Self-Care for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury,
3rd edition (Washington, DC: Paralyzed Veterans of America, 2000), pp. 1–6.

183–84
copy of Norman Doidge’s
The Brain That Changes Itself

Doidge,
The Brain That Changes Itself,
p. xvii. It is impossible to stress enough the profound and transformational impact Doidge’s book had, and continues to have, on my expectations for Simon’s recovery and on my life in general.

198
It’s a hard way to find out trouble is real / In a far away city, with a far away feel

Parsons and Buchanan, “Hickory Wind.”

229
I hope my baby’s still waiting

Joe Stanton, “99 Days,” perf. The Precious Littles,
Sometimes You Win,
Bearwood Music, 2008, LP.

238
“The Meaning of Birds”

Charlie Smith,
Indistinguishable from the Darkness
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), pp. 83–84.

258
I’m going to sing

Joe Stanton, “Make Me Proud,” perf. Joe Stanton and Stanton Paradis, on Joe Stanton,
There You Go,
Old Truck Records, 1997, LP.

258-59
Music making

Christian Gaser and Gottfried Schlaug, “Brain structures differ between musicians and non-musicians,”
The Journal of Neuroscience,
23 (2003): 9240–45, retrieved at
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/27/9240.full
; Barbro B. Johansson, “Music and brain plasticity,”
European Review,
14, no. 1 (2006): 49–64, doi: 10.1017/S1062798706000056; Wan and Schlaug, “Music making as a tool for promoting brain plasticity across the life span”; Daniel J. Levitin,
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
(New York: Penguin, 2006), pp. 83–84, 188, 220–21.

259
Music might also provide

Gottfried Schlaug, “Listening to and making music facilitates brain recovery processes,”
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
1169 (2009): 372–73.

261
I can’t go home this a-wa
y..
.

Bob Dylan, “I Was Young When I Left Home,” perf. by Bob Dylan,
Love and Theft,
Limited Edition, Columbia Records, 2001.

264–265
The message of chronic pain

“Pain after spinal cord injury,” ch. 22 in
Spinal Cord Injury Reference Manual
.

271
There’s a pain in the night

Simon Paradis, “Pain in the Night,” perf. Stanton Paradis,
Good Road Home,
Cooper Road Studios, 2013.

281
Some of the most promising research

Nicolelis, Beyond Boundaries, pp. 1–16, especially pp. 5, 7, and 8.

288
God said Time

Dan Bern, “God Said No,” perf. Dan Bern,
New American Language,
Messenger Records, 2001.

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his beautiful memoir,
Waking

Matthew Sanford,
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
(Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006). This philosophical story begins for the author when he is 13; it details the aftermath of a car accident that killed his father and sister and left him paralyzed from the chest down, and follows him into into adulthood and his journey as a yoga practitioner and, eventually, yoga teacher to students of all levels of ability.

FURTHER READING

In addition to Joan Didion’s
The Year of Magical Thinking
, Jill Bolte Taylor’s
My Stroke of Insight
, Norman Doidge’s
The Brain That Changes Itself,
and Matthew Sanford’s
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence,
there were several books I read during the most intense period of Simon’s rehabilitation and in preparation for beginning this book that were meaningful to me. These were:

Francesco Clark,
Walking Papers: The Accident That Changed My Life, and the Business That Got Me Back on My Feet
(New York: Hyperion, 2010).

Bonnie Klein,
Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability
(Berkeley, CA: PageMill Press, 1998).

Daniel J. Levitin,
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
(Toronto: Penguin, 2008).

Christopher Reeve,
Still Me
(New York: Random House, 1998).