Follow:
“The Poet Laureate of Medicine”
— The New York Times
Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks was a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.
He is the author of many books, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, On The Move, and Gratitude
THE RIVER OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Dr. Sacks’s newest book, is available October 24, 2017
TED Talks: Oliver Sacks
What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.
See Video
BLOG: Oliver Sacks
Celebrating Oliver Sacks’s Birthday
Oliver loved to celebrate his birthday, July 9. He would start the day with a swim, and then we would round up the usual suspects and throw a party with…
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks — a film in progress!
Oliver Sacks’s animated mind is becoming an animated film, and we hope you will be a part of it! Dempsey Rice, the filmmaker who brought us so many fascinating interviews…
Creativity Depends on Openness to Change
How we wish Dr. Sacks were still alive to see the glorious reviews for his new book, The River of Consciousness. In this week’s New York Times Book Review, Nicole Krauss writes: “In…
A New Oliver Sacks Book! and two live events
Two weeks before his death in August 2015, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee in detail, and charged three of…