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Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. [2] . Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
Author & Neurologist. Oliver Sacks, M.D,. FRCP, was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.”
Dr. Oliver Sacks was a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology. He is the author of many books, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Gratitude and Everything In Its Place.
Nov 13, 2024 · Oliver Sacks (born July 9, 1933, London, England—died August 30, 2015, New York, New York, U.S.) was a British neurologist and writer who won acclaim for his sympathetic case histories of patients with unusual neurological disorders.
Aug 31, 2015 · Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain’s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” using his...
Sep 21, 2020 · A new documentary, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, chronicles the late neurologist's efforts to understand perception, memory and consciousness. Sacks spoke to Fresh Air in 2012. Accessibility links
The award-winning documentary explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact.
Nov 8, 2024 · OLIVER SACKS: Well, and even more extensively, there’s no particular music center, but there are many different parts of the brain, many networks, many systems in the auditory parts of the brain, the visual parts, the executive parts, the motor parts. And they’re like, 20 or 30 different parts of the brain, which are recruited for musical experience and performance. And this is much wider than for speech, which is the reason why if people lose language in aphasia, they still have music ...
About the Episode. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles...
Aug 31, 2015 · Oliver Sacks, Who Depicted Brain-Disorder Sufferers' Humanity, Dies. The prolific author–neurologist gave the world empathetic insights into disorders of the brain while also inspiring...
