Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in London, Sacks received...
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David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) is a South African-American entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is a general partner...
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Oliver Sacks books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars. It premiered on September 23, 2024. Zachary Quinto as Oliver...
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Insomniac City (redirect from Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me)
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me (also subtitled New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me) is a 2017 memoir by writer and photographer Bill Hayes, primarily...
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Wall Street Journal. He is the Creative Director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation, and co-edited Sacks' posthumous works, Gratitude and The River of Consciousness...
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1097/OPX.0000000000000959. ISSN 1538-9235. PMC 5131689. PMID 27529611. Sacks, Oliver. "What hallucination reveals about our minds". Ted.com. Archived from...
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is in an 1899 medical paper. A case of a prosopagnosia is "Dr P." in Oliver Sacks' 1985 book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, though this is more...
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is a 2019 American biographical documentary film directed and created by Ric Burns about Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist...
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An Anthropologist on Mars (category Books by Oliver Sacks)
Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a 1995 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks consisting of seven medical case histories of individuals with neurological...
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was about the post-encephalitic patients described by the neurologist Oliver Sacks (see Awakenings). The documentary won a Red Ribbon at the 1978 American...
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Awakenings (book) (category Books by Oliver Sacks)
non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. Sacks chronicles...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (category Books by Oliver Sacks)
1985 non-fiction book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case...
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prosthetic supplies, and sports medicine. He was profiled in neurologist Oliver Sacks' book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007). Cicoria received...
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neurologist and author Oliver Sacks in a 2006 New Yorker article with that name. Barry's first book greatly expands on Sacks' article and discusses the...
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Uncle Tungsten (category Books by Oliver Sacks)
Boyhood is a memoir by Oliver Sacks about his childhood published in 2001. The book is named after Sacks's Uncle Dave, whom Oliver nicknamed Uncle Tungsten...
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On the Move: A Life is the second autobiography written by Oliver Sacks in 2015. According to Book Marks, the book received "rave" reviews based on 12...
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Hallucinations (book) (category Books by Oliver Sacks)
Hallucinations is a 2012 book written by the neurologist Oliver Sacks. In Hallucinations, Sacks recounts stories of hallucinations and other mind-altering...
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that some believe is caused by a very acute sense of smell Olfaction Oliver Sacks Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome Parosmia Walker, HK (1990). Clinical...
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Awakenings (category Films based on works by Oliver Sacks)
Steven Zaillian, based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir. It tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer, based on Sacks, who discovers the beneficial...
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Archived from the original on February 28, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020. "Oliver Sacks, Neurologist and 'Awakenings' Author, Dies at 82". The Hollywood Reporter...
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Ernst Mayr (for 1998) Steven Weinberg (for 1999) E. O. Wilson (for 2000) Oliver Sacks (for 2001) Jared Diamond (for 2002) Richard Fortey (for 2003) Jean-Pierre...
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later book, Thinking in Pictures, published in 1995, the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote at the end of the foreword that the book provided "a bridge between...
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Awakenings, for the Rambert Dance Company, inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks. That same year, he co-founded Opera San Antonio, where he served as...
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Migraine (book) (category Books by Oliver Sacks)
headaches "Migraine". Oliver Sacks. 2007. Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009. Sacks, Oliver (1992). Migraine (revised...
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originally met Oliver Sacks at a dinner party. Picker, whose Tourette's syndrome went undiagnosed until he was in his thirties, was interested in Sacks's opinion...
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Awakenings, a 1990 film directed by Penny Marshall, adapted from the book by Oliver Sacks (see below) Awakening (1992 film) or Mary from Beijing, a Hong Kong film...
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Paul Theroux. It also appears in the writings of Aleister Crowley, and Oliver Sacks. It is the motto of the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society. "Behold, a...
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discovered in encephalitis lethargica cases from the epidemic. In 2012, Oliver Sacks, the author of the book Awakenings, about institutionalized survivors...
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and written about the phenomenon include Theodor Reik, Sean Bennett, Oliver Sacks, Daniel Levitin, James Kellaris, Philip Beaman, Vicky Williamson, Diana...
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The Mind's Eye (book) (category Books by Oliver Sacks)
telling stories." Sacks, Oliver (2010). "The Mind's Eye". Retrieved April 8, 2010. Simon Ings (21 Nov 2010), "The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks: review", The...
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