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Chapter Thirty: The Institute

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Index

11/22/63 (King), 181–189, 218

clothing, 186

inspiration, 181–182

plot, 182, 186, 189

time travel, 182

21 Grams, 106

60 Minutes, 32

550 Spyder, 149

1858 Medical Act, 82

A

Abby and Brittany, 96

Academy of Fine Arts, 185

acne, 66

acoustic cannon, 156

addiction, 47, 53, 75–78, 92, 190. See also Alcohol

and the brain, 75

and childhood trauma, 13

costs of, 76

disease concept of, 76

enabler, 15

heroin, 78

Jekyll and Hyde nature, 14–15

mental and emotional, 77

methamphetamine, 117

moral flaw, 75–76

nicotine, 43

overcoming, 75, 77–78

science of, 74–75

sexual, 15

therapy, 14

withdrawal, 77

Addison’s disease, 65

adrenaline, 44

Advocate Children’s Hospital, 97

aging, slowing, 191–193

agoraphobia, 9

alcohol

abuse, 11, 13–14

fatalities, 14

alcoholism, 190

Aldini, Giovanni, 55

The Alexander Romance, 191

alibi, 205

Alien, 145

aliens, 89, 91, 139, 178

Allen, Wendy, 148

Alzheimer’s disease, 170–171

American Journal of Epidemiology, 7

American Journal of Medicine, 35

The American Journal of Psychiatry, 171

American Psychiatric Association, 213–214

amputation, 166–167

Anderson, Bobbi, 87, 91

Angermeyer, Matthias, 84

animal bites, 51

antagonists, 80

Antarctica, 88

anthrax, 34

anti-stalking laws, 83

anxiety, 8–9, 112

Apollo 15, 10

app, 201

Arbogast, Ray, 147

Archeon museum, 81

arrows, poison, 33

arson, 26

art

therapy, 169–170

as trauma treatment, 13–14

assassinations, 181

asthma, premenstrual, 6

Astral Dynamics movement, 194

astral projection, 193–195

astrovirology, 145

Atlantic, 131

Auguste, 69

auras, 112–116

camera, 113, 115

meaning, 114–115

photography, 112

reading, 114

Aurora, 129

Australian wildfires, 176

authors, discovering, 135

autism spectrum, 210

autonomous vehicles (AVs). See Cars, self-driving

B

Bachman, Richard, 25, 93, 129

The Bachman Books (Bachman/King), 25, 29

“Bachman Exposed” (Brown), 94

Bad Clowns (Radford), 68

Bagentholm, Anna, 55

banshee, 116

Bardo, Robert, 83

Barris, George, 149

Basket Case, 96–97

Bathory, Elizabeth, 192–193

bear attacks, 126

Beaumont, Elizabeth, 93

Beaumont, Thad, 92–96, 100

Beck, Julie, 131

beer

brewing, 39–40

going bad, 40–41

warm, 38–39

beheading, 121

Bell, Alexander Graham, 154

Bell, Michael, 21

Bellantoni, Nick, 20–21

Beowulf, 105

Bible, 5–6, 55, 107–108

Bimini, 191

biological warfare, 33–34

bird

communication, 158

movement, 158

black holes, 79, 183

Black House (King and Straub), 129

Blaine the Mono, 199

Blanchard, William, 90

blood, 5–6, 9, 23

blood eagle, 120–121

blood type, 107–108

body possession, 139

bones, broken, 81–83

bone setting, 81–82

casts, 82

pain relief, 82

books, banned, 203

Boo’ya Moon, 159, 162–163, 165

borderline personality disorder, 11

Boston Daily Globe, 21

Boulder, Colorado, 32

Bradbury, Ray, 10–11, 198–200, 203

brain

and addiction, 75

and cell phones, 158

and childhood environment, 57

and death, 105

and heroin, 78

hunger loop, 39

injuries, 168

reward system, 39

somatosensory cortex, 167

traumatic brain injury (TBI), 168

Bramble Cay melomys, 177

Brazel, WW Mack, 90

Bridgton, Maine, 47

Broken Heart Syndrome, 161

Brown, Edwin, 23–24

Brown, George, 23

Brown, Joshua, 151

Brown, Lena, 23–24

Brown, Mary Eliza, 23

Brown, Steve, 93–94

Browning, Robert, 73

Bruce, Robert, 194

Bruchu, Annette, 112–116

Buick valve-in-head engine, 148

bullet, 188

comparative bullet analysis, 187

magic bullet theory, 187

bullying, 8–9

results of, 9