May 18, 2022
In this episode, Dr. Andrew Cutler interviews Mr. Marko Perko and Dr. Stephen Stahl about their newly released book “Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life” and the intersection between Tesla’s genius, creativity, and bipolar disorder. How is your book unique from any book that’s been written on Tesla before? What is the main message that you’d like readers to take away from this book? In this episode Mr. Perko and Dr. Stahl address these questions and much more!
Marko Perko is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He has always had an insatiable thirst for knowledge of all types, and as such, he is highly regarded as a modern-day Renaissance man, author, historian, polymath, polemicist, and history communicator. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and wildly popular book “Did You Know That . . .?” He is also a novelist and the writer of an international bestselling knowledge-based board game, as well as the creator of the Cultural Enrichment Programs education series, and a software developer―Krypti.com.
Perko has written for and edited numerous publications, and he has worked as a columnist, speechwriter, composer, musician, lecturer, and playwright. He is a member of The Authors Guild; the Biographers International Organization; the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Broadcast Music, Inc.; the Institution of Engineering and Technology; the British Library; and the Organization of American Historians.
With this special series, brought to you by the NEI Podcast we will address a different theme in psychopharmacology every 3 months. Each theme is split into 3 parts, with one part released each month. This theme is on practical psychopharmacology.
Episodes to be released under this theme include:
Part 1: The Lightning in the Storm: Creativity in Bipolar Disorder
Part 2: Nikola Tesla’s Evil Twins: Genius and Madness with Marko Perko
Part 3: History of Creative Famous Individuals with Bipolar Disorder
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Link to “Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life”: https://www.amazon.com/Tesla-His-Tremendous-Troubled-Life-ebook/dp/B09QMPH6MG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=O0UAHNGC8Z0J&keywords=tesla+by+marko+perko&qid=1652729759&sprefix=tesla+by+marko+perko%2Caps%2C113&sr=8-1