This month is Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month in New York State. The syndrome, characterized by involuntary body movements or vocalizations, was first described in 1885 by the French neurologist Georges…
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New Videos on YouTube!
Spring greetings! We have posted some new videos on Dr. Sacks’s YouTube channel, in which he reacts to the new film based on his work, “The Music Never Stopped.” (If you have…
The Last Hippie and the Grateful Dead
Dr. Sacks’s essay “The Last Hippie” is the basis for the new feature film, The Music Never Stopped, directed by Jim Kohlberg and starring J. K. Simmons, Lou Taylor Pucci, Cara Seymour and…
Music, Metals, and Learning
The Mind’s Eye is available now in English, German, Dutch, and Portuguese (Brazil), with more translations on the way. Dr. Sacks discusses the book, and many other topics, on his…
Wrapping up 2010
Season’s Greetings from the Sacks office! We hope your holidays are full of peaceful moments, firelight (see Dr. Sacks’s piece about his love of fire), and, of course, music (see his tribute…
Giving Thanks for Great Readers!
The Mind’s Eye is a New York Times Editor’s Choice pick this week. Okay, so Keith Richards’ autobiography is number one, but we’re number two! Thank you, New York Times…
The Mind’s Eye is now available!
October 26, 2010 The Mind’s Eye launches today!** In hardcover, large type, e-book, and audio editions. Check out our new YouTube channel for video clips of Dr. Sacks talking about his…
The Mind’s Eye book tour
It’s only a few more weeks until Dr. Sacks’s new book, The Mind’s Eye, is published in hardcover, large print, audiobook and e-book formats—in the United States, Australia, Brasil, the…
Gotta Dance!
In Musicophilia, Dr. Sacks writes about music and its therapeutic effects for movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and Tourette’s syndrome. His Awakenings patients (who had an extremely rare and severe form of parkinsonism)…
Reading, writing and evolution
Reading and writing: do they go together like love and marriage? Well, it turns out the story is complicated. Take Howard Engel, a novelist who wrote to Dr. Sacks a…
SquidMania
Dr. Sacks’s favorite creatures are cephalopods: squids, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus–all those mollusks that have neurons not only in their heads (cephalo-) but in their feet (-pods) as well. They’re very smart….
iPad apps, literary journals, science festivals
In a somewhat circuitous way, Dr. Sacks’s Uncle Tungsten has inspired a hot new iPad app by Theodore Gray, of Periodic Table fame. It’s a gorgeous new way to enjoy…
The Mind’s Eye coming in October 2010!
Dr. Sacks just delivered the manuscript for his new book, The Mind’s Eye, to his publishers. Alfred A. Knopf will publish the book in the US on October 26, 2010….
Cameras are rolling…
Last week, production began on a new feature film based on Dr. Sacks’s essay “The Last Hippie,” in An Anthropologist on Mars. Jim Kohlberg is directing the indie film, which…
Dr. Sacks to appear on PBS and The Daily Show!
NOVA: Musical Minds now available on DVD. This hour-long program focuses on Dr. Sacks and some of the patients he wrote about in MUSICOPHILIA. Watch Dr. Sacks discuss music with…
Good Heavens!
As noted recently in the New York Times, the Committee of Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has approved the naming of asteroid 84928 as “Oliversacks”! Dr. Sacks…
Honors for Oliver Sacks
Queen Elizabeth II has named Dr. Sacks a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Dr. Sacks says that, having grown up in London, he is thrilled and honored…
Stromatolites!
Several of Dr. Sacks’ unusual interests are featured in David Coleman’s article in the New York Times, “In Praise of Early Adapters.” Particular attention is given to stromatolites and other…
New York Times Migraine Blog
Dr. Sacks’ piece Patterns was posted to the Times Migraine blog last night and has climbed to #3 on the Most Emailed list.
Music: It Does A Body Good
Do you swim to the lilt of a Strauss waltz? Do the Black Eyed Peas keep you on pace? No matter what your musical tastes, a good beat can keep…