Websites from the book:

1. The Vestibular Disorders Association has information about vestibular problems and provides additional resources such as newsletters, books, and videotapes.
    
2. The American Pain Foundation offers information for pain patients, testimonials from people suffering pain from an assortment of causes, and links to numerous other pain sites.

   The International Association for the Study of Pain has links to more technical resources on pain.

3. The In the News feature about monkeys learning to coordinate both hands of a computer avatar with their brains came from a ScienceNOW news article.
    
4. In BrainFacts.org’s Searching for Answers videos, patients and their families describe what it is like to live with Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease).
    
   You can get information about a variety of movement disorders from the Neuromuscular Disease Center, National Parkinson Foundation, Huntington’s Disease Association, and National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
    
   In an interview with Katie Couric, actor Michael J. Fox talks about living with Parkinson’s disease and about his views on stem cell research
    
5. A University of Sheffield news release describes the ground breaking study that screened 2,000 potential drugs for Parkinson’s disease.

Other websites:

• The original study on change blindness, and the basis of much research including the Invisible Gorilla book listed previously, along with many interesting video demonstrations, can be found on Daniel Simons’ webpage here:  http://www.simonslab.com/videos.html
   
• TED Talk from mathematician Max Little, who came up with a quick 30 second diagnostic test for Parkinson’s disease (and it’s over the phone!), which affects over 6.5 million individuals worldwide. Filmed in June 2012. http://www.ted.com/talks/max_little_a_test_for_parkinson_s_with_a_phone_call