SACKS BY SUBJECT


This page serves as a general reference only. Please refer to Dr. Sacks’ full list of publications for a detailed bibliography. Subjects in the navigational bar appear in abbreviated form. Please click through to read the full list of related subjects. Most of Dr. Sacks’ writings fall into multiple categories, so be sure to consult the indices of his books for additional information.


Aging

Sacks, Oliver. A Neurologist's Perspective on the Aging Brain. Archives of Neurology 54, October 1997, 1211-1214.


Agnosia

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Ch. 1
Mars: Ch. 4 To See and Not See


Alzheimer’s

Sacks, Oliver. A Neurologist's Perspective on the Aging Brain. Archives of Neurology 54, October 1997, 1211-1214.
Sacks, Oliver: Alzheimer's and Creativity, Letter to the editor, Art and Antiques, January 1990.


Amnesia/Memory/Nostalgia

Hat: Ch. 2 The Lost Mariner, Ch. 12 A Matter of Identity, Ch. 19 Murder
Mars: Ch. 2 The Last Hippie, Ch. 5 The Landscape of His Dreams
Sacks, Oliver. Gowers's memory. Neurology 46, pp. 1467-69, May 1996.


Aphasia

Hat: Ch. 9 The President’s Speech


Auden, W.H.

Sacks, Oliver: Dear Mr. A..... In Stephen Spender, ed., W.H. Auden: A Tribute (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975).


Autism/Savants

Hat: Ch. 22 A Walking Grove, Ch. 23 The Twins, Ch. 24 The Autistic Artist
Mars: Ch. 6 Prodigies, Ch. 7 An Anthropologist on Mars
Sacks, Oliver. Foreword to Exiting Nirvana, by Clara Claiborne Park (Boston, New York, London: Little Brown & Co., 2001).
Sacks, Oliver. Henry Cavendish: An Early Case of Asperger’s syndrome?, Neurology vol. 57, October 9, 2001.
Sacks, Oliver. Introduction to the paperback edition of Glenn Gould by Peter Ostwald. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998).
Sacks, Oliver. Foreword to Thinking in Pictures, by Temple Grandin (New York: Doubleday, 1995).
Audio/Visual: The Mind Traveller: Rage for Order


Botany

Island of the Colorblind: cycads (Guam, Rota)
Oaxaca Journal: All Chapters (ferns, tobacco, morning glory, chilies, chocolate, rubber, corn)
Cox, Paul Alan and Sacks, Oliver. Cycad neurotoxins, consumption of flying foxes, and ALS-PDC disease in Guam, Neurology 2202:58:956-959.


Chemistry/Science

Uncle Tungsten: All Chapters
Sacks, Oliver. Brilliant Light. The New Yorker, December 20, 1999, pp. 56-73.
Sacks, Oliver: Hard Times for Curious Minds, The New York Times, op-ed page, May 13, 1999.
Sacks, Oliver. Everything In Its Place. New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1999, pp. 126-130.
Sacks, Oliver. Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science. In Robert Silvers, ed., Hidden Histories of Science, pp. 141-187 (New York: New York Review of Books, 1995).
Sacks, Oliver. Remembering South Kensington. Discover, November 1993, pp. 78-80.
Sacks, Oliver. Humphry Davy: a poet-chemist. New York Review of Books, November 4, 1993, pp. 50-56.


Color

Island: Pingelap chapter
Mars: Ch. 1 The Colorblind Painter
Sacks, O., Wasserman, R.L., Zeki, S., and Siegel, R.M.: Sudden color-blindness of cerebral origin. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 1988.

Audio/Visual: The Mind Traveller: Island of the Colorblind


Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (mad cow)

Sacks, Oliver. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary, review of Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes. The New Yorker, April 14, 1997, pp. 82-85


Deafness/Language

Seeing Voices: All Chapters

Sacks, Oliver: Foreword to A Man Without Words, by Susan Schaller. (New York: Summit Books, 1991).

Audio/Visual: The Mind Traveller: Ragin Cajun


Dreams

Sacks, Oliver. Neurological Dreams. In Deirdre Barrett, ed., Trauma and Dreams, pp. 212-216 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).


Encephalitis

See: Parkinsonism/Encephalitis/Post-Encephalitis


Freud

Sacks, Oliver. The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist. in Michael S. Roth, ed. Freud: Conflict and Culture, pp. 221-234 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).


Frontal Lobe Syndrome

Mars: Ch. 2 The Last Hippie

Sacks, Oliver. Foreword to The Executive Brain, by Elkhonon Goldberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).


Hallucinations

Hat: Ch. 15 Reminiscence

Migraine: Ch. 13 Migraine Aura and Classical Migraine, Ch. 17 Mig. Aura and Hallucinatory Constants


History (pre-Columbian)

Oaxaca: Ch.4 Monday, Ch.7-9 Thursday, Friday, Saturday


Luria, A.R.

Sacks, Oliver: Luria and "Romantic Science." In E. Goldberg, ed., Festschrift for Alexandr Romanovich Luria. (New York: Institute for Research in Behavioral Neuroscience Press, 1990).

Sacks, Oliver: Foreword to The Man with a Shattered World, by A.R. Luria. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987).

Sacks, O.W.: Obituary for A.R. Luria, The Times (London), September xx, 1977.

Sacks, O.W.: The mind of A.R. Luria. The Listener, June 28, 1973.


Migraine

Hat: Ch. 20 The Visions of Hildegarde

Migraine: All Chapters

Sacks, Oliver. Introduction to On Megrim by Edward Liveing (Nijmegen: Arts & Boeve, 1997).

Sacks, Oliver. Interview: Migraine. In Wim Kayzer, ed., A Glorious Accident, pp. 3-34 (New York: W.H.Freeman, 1997).


Music/Music Therapy

Musicophilia: All chapters.

Hat: Ch. 15 Reminiscence, Ch. 22 A Walking Grove

Leg: various chapters

Mars: Ch. 2 The Last Hippie

Sacks, Oliver. When Music Heals, Parade Magazine, March 31, 2002, pp. 4-5.

Sacks, Oliver. Music and the Brain. in Concetta M. Tomaino, ed. Clinical Applications of Music in Neurologic Rehabilitation., pp.1-18 (St. Louis: MMB Music, Inc., 1998).

Sacks, Oliver. Introduction to the paperback edition of Glenn Gould by Peter Ostwald. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998).


Neural Darwinism

Sacks, Oliver. Making up the mind. Review of work by Gerald Edelman, New York Review of Books, April 8, 1993, pp. 42-49.

Sacks, Oliver: Neurology and the Soul. New York Review of Books, November 22, 1990.


Parkinsonism/Encephalitis/Post-Encephalitis

Awakenings: All Chapters

Hat: Ch. 16 Incontinent Nostalgia

Island: Guam

Mars: Ch. 7 On the Level

Cox, Paul Alan and Sacks, Oliver. Cycad neurotoxins, consumption of flying foxes, and ALS-PDC disease in Guam, Neurology 2202:58:956-959.

Sacks, Oliver. Guam disease and post-encephalitic parkinsonism. Letter to the editor, Science 262, November 5, 1993, p. 826.

Sacks, Oliver: Foreword to Shadow Over my Brain: A Battle against Parkinson's Disease, by Cecil Todes (Gloucestershire: The Windrush Press, 1990).

Sacks, Oliver: Post-encephalitic syndromes. In G. Stern, ed., Parkinson's Disease. (London: Chapman & Hall, 1990).

Sacks, Oliver: Review of Ivan: Living with Parkinson's Disease, by Ivan Vaughan. British Medical Journal 294: 503, February 121, 1987.

Sacks, Oliver: The origins of Awakenings. British Medical Journal 287: 1968-1969, December 24, 1983.

Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings revisited. M. Sarner, ed., Advanced Medicine 18. (London: Pitman Books, 1982).

Audio/Visual: The Mind Traveller: Poison In Paradise


Phantoms/Alienation/Proprioception

Hat: Ch. 3 The Disembodied Lady, Ch. 4 The Man Who Fell Out of Bed, Ch. 6 Phantoms

Leg: All Chapters

Sacks, Oliver. Foreword to Phantoms in the Brain, by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1998).

Sacks, Oliver: Foreword to Pride and a Daily Marathon, by Jonathan Cole (London: Duckworth, 1991).

Sacks, Oliver. Phantom faces. British Medical Journal, vol. 304, February 8, 1992, p. 364.

Sacks, Oliver. Phantom limbs: The case of Paul Wittgenstein. Letter to the editor, New York Review of Books, January 30, 1992.


Photography

Uncle Tungsten: Ch. 12 Images

Sacks, Oliver: Color photography in the forties, Letter to the editor, Scientific American, March 1990.

Sacks, Oliver: Luria and "Romantic Science." In E. Goldberg, ed., Festschrift for Alexandr Romanovich Luria. (New York: Institute for Research in Behavioral Neuroscience Press, 1990).

Sacks, Oliver: Foreword to The Man with a Shattered World, by A.R. Luria. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987).

Sacks, O.W.: Obituary for A.R. Luria, The Times (London), September xx, 1977.

Sacks, O.W.: The mind of A.R. Luria. The Listener, June 28, 1973.


Seizure Disorders

Hat: Ch. 15 Reminiscence, Ch. 17 A Passage to India

Mars: The Landscape of His Dreams


Stereoscopy

Sacks, Oliver. Stereo Sue. The New Yorker, June 19, 2006, pp. 64-73.


Swimming

Sacks, Oliver. Doug Stern's Curacao swim camp. Triathelete, September 1997, p. 10.

Sacks, Oliver. Water Babies. The New Yorker, May 26, 1997, pp. 44-45.


Tourette Syndrome

Hat: Ch. 10 Witty Ticcy Ray, Ch. 14 The Possessed

Mars: Ch. 03 A Surgeon’s Life

Sacks, Oliver. Tourette's syndrome: a human condition. In Roger Kurlan, ed., Handbook of Tourette's Syndrome and Related Tic and Behavioral Disorders, pp. 509-514 (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1993).

Sacks, Oliver. Tourette's and creativity. British Medical Journal 305:1515-1516, December 19, 1992.

Sacks, Oliver. Foreword to Don't Think about Monkeys, ed. by Adam Seligman and John Hilkevich (Duarte, CA: Hope Press, 1992).

Sacks, Oliver: Post-encephalitic syndromes. In G. Stern, ed., Parkinson's Disease. (London: Chapman & Hall, 1990).

Sacks, Oliver: The Divine Curse: tourette's syndrome among a mennonite family. Life, September 1988.

Sacks, Oliver: Tics. New York Review of Books, January 29, 1987.

Sacks, Oliver: Acquired Tourettism in adult life. In A.J. Friedhoff and T.N. Chase, eds., Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, Advances in Neurology 35 (NY: Raven Press, 1982).

Audio/Visual: The Mind Traveller: Shane


Travel

Island: Guam, Micronesia, Pingelap, Pohnpei, Pacific Islands

Oaxaca Journal: Oaxaca, Mexico

Sacks, Oliver: Canada: Pause (1960). Antaeus 62, Spring 1989, 192-200.

Sacks, Oliver: Travel happy (1961). Antaeus 61, Autumn 1988, 391-406.


Twins

Sacks, Oliver: Review of The Silent Twins, by Marjorie Wallace. The New York Times Book Review, October 19, 1986.


Vision/Blindness

Hat: Ch. 5 Hands, Ch. 8 Eyes Right!

Mars: Ch. 1 The Colorblind Painter, Ch. 4 To See and Not See

Sacks, Oliver: Foreword to Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness, by John Hull. (London: Vintage Books, 1991).

(see also COLOR; STEREOSCOPY)


Williams Syndrome

Audio/Visual: The Mind Traveller: Don’t Be Shy, Mr. Sacks


MISCELLANEOUS NEUROLOGICAL SUBJECTS:


Syphilis

Hat: Ch. 11 Cupid’s Disease


Olfaction

Hat: Ch. 18 The Dog Beneath the Skin

Migraine: Ch. 13 Migraine Aura and Classical Migraine, Ch. 17 Migraine Aura and Hallucinatory Constants