Education:

MFA candidate, American University, 2007— (expected graduation, 2010)

Chief Resident, Neurology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1980-81

Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, MD 1977

National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, 1976

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, BA  chemistry, Cum Laude, 1973

The Hun School, Princeton, New Jersey 1970

Acadmic Apointments:

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, George Washington University, 2008–

Honors and Awards:

Pulitzer Prize Nomination  1982

Who’s Who in the World 1988 - present

Who’s Who in America  1990- present

Alumnus of the Year, Hun School, 2007

Distinguished Alumnus, Hun School, 1991

Irwin Brody Award, History of Neuroscience, Duke University, 1978

Editorial and Other Boards:

Williams Institute, UCLA Law , 2008 —

Point Foundation Mentor, 2007—

Brain & Language

Brain & Cognition

Medical Society of DC

Books & Chapters:

• Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, with David M Eagleman, MIT Press. 2009
• The Man Who Tasted Shapes. New York:Putnam/Tarcher 1993-2003

     Details of foreign translations and editions

• Synesthesia: A Union of The Senses, 2nd edition. Cambridge: MIT Press 2003. 1st edition, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989
• The Neurological Side of Neuropsychology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996
• Nerve Block For Common Pain. New York:  Springer Verlag, 1990
• The Role of Language in Synesthesia, Ward J, Cytowic RE. in HA Whitaker, ed, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2d ed. New York: Elsevier, 200
• Synesthesia: Anomalous binding of qualia and categories, in G Adelman, BH Smith, eds, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3d ed. New York: Elsevier, 2003.
• Foreword, Hinter dem Vorhang, pp 5-7, in HM Emrich, U Schneider, M Zedler, Welche Farbe hat der Montag? Synasthesie: Das Leben mit verknupften Sinnen. Stuttgart: Hirzel Verlag, 2002
• Wahrnehnumgs Synasthesie, pp 7-24, in H Adler & U Zeuch, eds, Synasthesia: Interferenz, Transfer,  Synthese der Sinne. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2002
• Synaesthesia: Phenomenology and neuropsychology, pp 17-42, in S Baron-Cohen & JE Harrison, eds Synaesthesia: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997
• Somatic, Ophthalmic & Cognitive Sequallae in Non Hospitalized Patients with Concussion, Cytowic, RE, Stump, DA, Larned, DC, in HA Whitakmer, ed., Nonfocal Brain Injury: Dementia & Trauma, New York: Springer Verlag, 1987

Television Presentations:

• PBS, “Sight & Sound,” December 2008
• Good Morning America & Primetime (CBS) August 16, 2006
• Good Morning America. October 1, 1981, The Long Ordeal of James Brady.
• Fox News, April 20, 2005
• National Geographic Channel, April 25, 2003
• Redes, Agencia Planateria, Spanish Public TV (Barcelona), with Eduard Punset, March 2002. www.rtve.es/redes
• 60 Minutes (USA), The Sixth Sense, CBS, January 16, 2002; re-air August 14, 2002
• 60 Minutes, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, August 1997
• Sightings, Paramount Television, Los Angeles, CA January 29, 1995
• BBC, Horizons, Orange Sherbet Kisses. BBC December 5, 1994
• CNN 11/25/95 Ever Taste a Shape or Smell a Color?
• The Tonight Show with Gabe Barnes, Dublin, Ireland, April, 1994
• The Other Side, NBC, Burbank, CA December 27, 1994

Radio Presentations:

• “Music and Technology.” Spark: Tech, Trends & Fresh Ideas CBC Canada), March 25, 2009
• From the Top, NPR (WGBH, Boston). July 8, 2008
• The Splendid Table, NPR (table.mpr.org/). People Who Taste Shapes. October 12, 2002
• BBC Radio 4, Hearing Colour, Eating Sounds, (2 parts) November 12 & 19, 2002
• Kojo Nnamde Show, WAMU (NPR), Washington DC. Your Dreaming Brain. October 3, 2002
• All Things Considered, National Public Radio. Colored Hearing Synesthesia. Washington, DC, November 4, 1983 [Winner, Associated Press Original News Story]
• Michael Krasney Show, KQED-San Francisco. October 4, 1993
• New York & Co., WNYC Radio, New York, August 23, 1993
• Weekend Edition, National Public Radio ,Synesthesia, November, 1988
• Voice of America, Perception and the Mind-Body Problem. US Information Agency, Washington, DC, October 10, 1986

Lectures:

• Hannover Germany, Keynote address, 3rd International Synesthesia Conference, December 1-3, 2006, Synesthesia: Current knowledge and future research.”Arte Citta—University of Almeria, Spain, July 25, 2005, Paradigm shift: Hearing colors in the brain.
• Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. July 14, 2005, Visual Music.
• Fragrance Foundation, Aroma Science Forum, Tokyo, September 3, 2004. Aroma’s implicit gateway to cognition
• Tufts University Neuroscience Dept. Contradictions to Current Theories Posed by Synesthesia. October 9, 2002
• NASA Scientific Colloquium, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, April 5, 2002. How the Brain Finds Constancy in an Inconstant World.
• Media Lab Colloquium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 14, 1994
• Parallel Senses of Synesthesia, National Science Foundation.  December 8, 1986

Symposia & Workshops:

• Implicit Knowledge made Explicit, American Synesthesia Association, Berkeley CA, November 5, 2004
• UCLA Brain Research Institute. Contradictions to Modularity And Other Conventions. Workshop, Extracting Meaning From the Senses, within NBIC Convergence 2003 (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science): Converging technologies for improving human performance. UCLA. February 5, 2003.
• Dreamscape: The Creativity of You Dreaming Brain.  Symposium organizer for Smithsonian Institute Resident Associates Program, October 5, 2002
• Synesthesia: Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes. Smithsonian Institute Resident Associates Program, October 15, 2001
• Kosmos  im Kopf: Gehirn und Denken. Exhibit at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, 14 April-25 October 2000
• Synesthesie ”historisch und aktuell. Workshop, November 17-19, 1999, Herzog August Bibliothek. Wolffenbuttel, Germany
• Synesthetic Education and the Cultural Organization of the Senses. Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago. October 29–November 1, 1999
• AAAS, Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes. San Francisco, February 23, 1994
• Science for the Naked Eye: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Colored Hearing Synesthesia. May 29, 1986 Philadelphia

Book Reviews:

• More Than You Know. American Journal of Psychology, 117(2): 279-282, 2004, review of Out of Mind: Varieties of Unconscious Processes ed. by Beatrice Gelder, Edward de Haan, & Charles Heywood (Oxford University Press)
• Even Educated Fleas Do It. Lambda Literary Report, April 1999, review of Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (St Martin's Press)
• Numbness and Blindsight. New Scientist, September 13, 1997, p 48: review of Consciousness Lost and Found by Lawrence Weiskrantz (Cambridge MA: MIT Press)
• All in the Genes. Washington Post Book World, September 1, 1996, p 9: reviews of Queer Science by Simon LeVay (MIT Press) and A Separate Creation by Chandler Burr (Hyperion)
• All Fall Down.New Scientist, October 28, 1995, p 46: review of Pride and a Daily Marathon by Jonathan Cole (MIT Press)

 

Popular Press Articles:

• Touching Tastes, Seeing Smells—And Shaking Up Brain Science. Cerebrum 4(3):7-26, 2002
• Secrets of the Inner Mind: Cross Connections, p. 105, Alexandria VA: Time-Life Books, 1993
• Ambergris in Your Cup. Cafe, An Interview Magazine, Sidney, Australia. No. 4 April 1995
• Mixed Sensations. Sky Magazine (Delta Airlines), June 1995, pp. 30-35. New York: Halsey Publications
• Green Symphonies and Yellow Voices: The Joined Senses of Synesthesia. Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future, pp. 218-227 Chicago, 1988
• The Long Ordeal of James Brady. Cover Story, New York Times Magazine, September 27, 1981. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize.
• If It Works In Tijuana, Why Not Here? The Appeal of Laetrile. G Magazine, July 1979
• Liner Notes. Suderburg, Concerto: Voyage de nuit dâ pres Baudelaire. Vox Records TV 34776, 1981

 

Columns:

As The Love Doctor for MW Magazine (Metro Weekly) Washington, DC. A bi-weekly column on relationships and romance, 1996-1997

As Richard Escoffier ”Dining Out” and “Gay Life” columns for The Washington Blade, featuring over-the-top restaurant reviews and style pieces, 1980-1981.

Music reviewer, Winston-Salem Sentinel (NC), 1979-980

Letters in Journals:

1. Seashore Science. New England Journal of Medicine 294:(12), March 18, 1976

2. Taste, The Unnecessary Sense? New England Journal of Medicine 308:(9)530, 1983

3. Alexithymia, Or Stupidity? New England Journal of Medicine 313:(July 4)53, 1985

4. Cytowic RE, Smith AS, Stump DA. Transient Amenorrhea After Closed head Trauma. New England Journal of Medicine 314(March 13):715, 1986

Articles in Journals:

1. Anton Chekhov:  A Physician-Genius in Spite of Himself, Parts I-IV. North Carolina Medical Journal 36:612-61; 679-681;733-735 (1975); 37:29-31 (1976)

5. Stalking the Wild Influenza. North Carolina Medical Journal 38:85-99, 1977

6. Aphasia in Maurice Ravel. Bulletin of the Los Angeles Neurological Societies 41:109-114, 1976

16. Synesthesia: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology. A Review of Current  knowledge. Psyche 2(10), 1995.

18. The Clinician’s Paradox: Believing Those You Must Not Trust, in A Jack, A Roepstorff, eds, Trusting The Subjectâ (Part I, Special Issue). Journal of Consciousness Studies 10(No 9-10, Sept-Oct): 157-166, 2003

Artist Colonies:

• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Charlottesville, VA

• Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA

Long Form of Dr. Cytowic’s CV by request only