Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and, most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is University Artist and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.
From the Review
November 20, 2008: Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers
Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, April 25–July 20, 2008; and the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, October 4, 2008– January 5, 2009
September 25, 2008: A Summer of Madness
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Philosophy of a Lunatic by John Custance
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin
The Seduction of Madness: Revolutionary Insights into the World of Psychosis and a Compassionate Approach to Recovery at Home by Edward M. Podvoll
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison
Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia by Emil Kraepelin
March 20, 2008: A Journey Inside the Brain
March 24, 2005: Remembering Francis Crick
April 8, 2004: 'In the River of Consciousness': An Exchange
January 15, 2004: In the River of Consciousness
The Principles of Psychology by William James
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection by Gerald M. Edelman
The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory by Donald Hebb
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
A Natural History of Vision by Nicholas J. Wade
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch, foreword by Francis Crick.
The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux
October 18, 2001: First Love
April 26, 2001: Inside the Executive Brain
March 29, 2001: Leaving Nirvana
November 4, 1993: The Poet of Chemistry
Humphry Davy: Science and Power by David Knight
April 8, 1993: Making up the Mind
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman
March 26, 1992: The Last Hippie
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman
'Human Autonomy and the Frontal Lobes' by F. Lhermitte, by B. Pillon, by M. Serdaru
Human Brain and Psychological Processes by A. R. Luria
The Neuropsychology of Memory by A. R. Luria
Long-lasting Perceptual Priming and Semantic Learning in Amnesia: A Case Experiment by Endel Tulving, by C.A.Gordon Hayman, by Carol A. Macdonald
Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion by Mickey Hart
'The Medial Temporal Lobe Memory System' by Larry Squire, by Stuart Zola-Morgan
Sound and Symbol: Volume I, Music and the External World Volume II, The Musician by Victor Zuckerkandl
The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness by Israel Rosenfield
'Three Possible Mechanisms of Unawareness of Deficit' Theoretical Issues by Elkhonon Goldberg, William B. Barr, George P. Prigatano, Daniel L. Schachter, in Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury
'On Dreaming and Wakefulness' by R.R. Llinás, by D. Paré
January 30, 1992: Phantom Limbs (letter)
June 13, 1991: On Being Blind (letter)
April 11, 1991: The 'Dark, Paradoxical Gift'
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull
January 17, 1991: James Sacksified (letter)
December 6, 1990: Neurology and the Soul (letter)
November 22, 1990: Neurology and the Soul
Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology by Frederick C. Bartlett
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection by Gerald M. Edelman
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman
The Mystery of the Mind by Wilder Penfield
The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain by Israel Rosenfield, Introduction by Oliver Sacks
La Conscience: Une Biologie du Moi Knopf in 1991 by Israel Rosenfield
'A Critique of Artificial Intelligence' by Israel Rosenfield. in The Enchanted Loom, edited by Pietro Corsi
Man on his Nature by Sir Charles Sherrington
The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Sir Charles Sherrington
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
Awakenings revised edition, by Oliver Sacks
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
June 2, 1988: The Revolution of the Deaf
November 19, 1987: The Case of the Colorblind Painter
Some Uncommon Observations About Vitiated Sight by Robert Boyle
"Disorders of Complex Visual Processing" by Antonio R. Damasio. in M-Marsel Mesulam, ed., Principles of Behavioral Neurology
Caspar Hauser by Anselm von Feuerbach
The Intelligent Eye by Richard L. Gregory
Physiological Optics Society of America, Washington, DC, 1924 by Hermann von Helmholtz. original edition 1856–1867, translation published by The Optical
"The Retinex Theory of Color Vision" by Edwin H. Land in Scientific American
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr
"Retinex Theory and Colour Constancy," article by J.J. McCann in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind
"Colour Vision: Eye Mechanisms," article by W.A.H. Rushton in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The Construction of Colours by the Cerebral Cortex" an article by S. Zeki in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
"Selective Disturbance of Movement Vision after Bilateral Brain Damage" in Brain, article by J. Zihl et al.
Colourful Notions series The Nature of Things (1984) A film written and produced by John Roth
January 29, 1987: Tics
"Etude sur une affection nerveuse caracterisée par de l'incoordination motrice accompagnée d'echolalie et de copralalie" by Georges Gilles de la Tourette
"Gilles de la Tourette on Tourette Syndrome" by C.G. Goetz, by H.L. Klawans. in Arnold J. Friedhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds., Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35 (1982): Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Postencephalitic Respiratory Disorders by Smith Ely Jelliffe
Psychopathology of Forced Movements and the Oculogyric Crises of Lethargic Encephalitis by Smith Ely Jelliffe
Tics and Related Disorders by A.J Lees
The Mind of a Mnemonist by A.R. Luria
"Psychoanalytic Evaluation of Tic in Psychopathology of Children" by Margaret S. Mahler. in Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
Tics and Their Treatment by H. Meige, by E. Feindel. translated and edited by S.A.K. Wilson from 1902 original
"Limbic Innervation of the Striatum" by Walle J.H. Nauta. in Arnold J. Freidhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds. Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35: Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
"Acquired Tourettism in Adult Life" by Oliver Sacks. in Arnold J. Friedhoff and Thomas N. Chase, eds., Advances in Neurology, Vol. 35: Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
"The Possessed" in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
"Witty Ticcy Ray" in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
"A Case of Gilles de la Tourette's Disease After 10 Years' Treatment with Haloperidol (R.1625)" by Jean-N. Seignot. in F.S. Abuzzahab and F.O. Anderson, eds., Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome: Vol. 1, International Registry
October 23, 1986: 'Mysteries of the Deaf': An Exchange
March 27, 1986: Mysteries of the Deaf
When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf by Harlan Lane
The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education edited by Harlan Lane, translated by Franklin Philip
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce
August 15, 1985: The President's Speech
June 13, 1985: Do Fish Have Nostrils? (letter)
April 25, 1985: The Autist Artist
February 28, 1985: The Twins
February 28, 1985: The Twins and Modular Arithmetic
November 8, 1984: Hands
June 28, 1984: The Bull on the Mountain
February 16, 1984: The Lost Mariner
From New York Review Books
 | A Journey Round My Skull The author was 48 when he was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. His memoir follows him through the stages of symptom, diagnosis, and surgery. "Karinthy's book is, to my mind, a masterpiece. . . . A Journey Around My Skull, the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best."—Oliver Sacks, from the Introduction. |
Books by Oliver Sacks
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2002)
Oaxaca Journal (2002)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1998)