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The award-winning Oliver Sacks documentary is online starting September 23!
Acclaimed director Ric Burns’s new film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life will be available for online viewing in the USA. Click here for more info.
“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 book, a film, and a voting plan
Dear Readers, Is it autumn so soon? We have so much news to catch up on! First off, we are delighted to announce a new edition of Oliver Sacks’s third…
A Less Remembered Pandemic
Dear Readers, We hope you are staying healthy and safe in these extremely difficult times. Reading, as we all are, about the spread of Covid-19 inevitably reminds us of the…
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…