Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat became the basis of an opera of the same …

Nöroloji uzmanı Oliver Sacks, Mars'ta Bir Antropolog ya da özgün adıyla An Anthropologist on Mars kitabında, Tourette sendromundan kaynaklanmış “tik”leriyle boğuşan bir cerrah; bir kaza sonucu renkkörü olup siyah-beyaz resimlerin tonlarında yaşayan bir ressam gibi, bir kaza ya da bir hastalık sonucu beyinlerinde …

The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs sometimes experience. …

Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly …

The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind—a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since …

Profesör Oliver Sacks, Renkkörleri Adası ya da özgün adıyla The Island of the Colorblind kitabında, okurunu dünyanın bir ucuna, Mikronezya bölgesine götürür. Yazar bu adalardaki sıradışı yöresel hastalıkları -Pingelap ve Pohnpei'de kalıtımsal renkkörlüğünü; Guam ve Rota'da ilerleyen, ölümcül bir nörodejeneratif …