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“The Poet Laureate of Medicine”
— The New York Times
Dr. Oliver Sacks was a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology.
He is the author of many books, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE, Dr. Sacks’s final collection of essays, is available now.
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.
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BLOG: Oliver Sacks
A Botanical End-of-Year Message From the Sacks Team
Hello friends, Dr. Sacks would be thrilled to know that a newly identified species of fern has been named Ceradenia sacksii, “Sacks’ waxy-gland fern” by botanist Michael Sundue. This is a…
Watch a Clip From the Oliver Sacks Documentary
We are very excited to announce that Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, a Ric Burns documentary on the life and work of Oliver Sacks, premiered last week at the Telluride Film…
Contribute to an Oliver Sacks Biography!
Dear readers, Happy July 9th (the 86th anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s birth)! We are very excited to announce that Laura J. Snyder has begun working on the definitive biography of Oliver…
Parkinson’s Awareness Month and More
Did you know that Oliver Sacks once bought a house during a swim around New York’s City Island? He lived there for over twenty years. In his upcoming essay…