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 Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. His latest book, Hallucinations, was published in November 2012.
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Freud and Sexual Abuse
March 21, 2013
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Speak, Memory
February 21, 2013
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Save Willesden Library!
October 11, 2012
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The Lost Virtues of the Asylum
September 24, 2009
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Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers
November 20, 2008
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
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A Summer of Madness
September 25, 2008
Hurry Down Sunshine
by Michael Greenberg
Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Philosophy of a Lunatic by John Custance
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
by Kay Redfield Jamison
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Seduction of Madness: Revolutionary Insightsinto the World of Psychosis and a Compassionate Approach to Recovery at Home
by Edward M. Podvoll
Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry
by Emil Kraepelin
Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia
by Emil Kraepelin
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A Journey Inside the Brain
March 20, 2008
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Remembering Francis Crick
March 24, 2005
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In the River of Consciousness
January 15, 2004
The Principles of Psychology
by William James
Creative Evolution
by Henri Bergson
The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory
by Donald Hebb
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
by Gerald M. Edelman
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
by Gerald M. Edelman
The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by Francis Crick
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
by Christof Koch, foreword by Francis Crick.
A Natural History of Vision
by Nicholas J. Wade
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First Love
October 18, 2001
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Inside the Executive Brain
April 26, 2001
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Leaving Nirvana
March 29, 2001
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The Poet of Chemistry
November 4, 1993
Humphry Davy: Science and Power
by David Knight
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Making up the Mind
April 8, 1993
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind
by Gerald M. Edelman
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The Last Hippie
March 26, 1992
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
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Phantom Limbs
January 30, 1992
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On Being Blind
June 13, 1991
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The ‘Dark, Paradoxical Gift’
April 11, 1991
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull
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James Sacksified
January 17, 1991
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Neurology and the Soul
December 6, 1990
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Neurology and the Soul
November 22, 1990
Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology by Frederick C. Bartlett
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
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
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The Revolution of the Deaf
June 2, 1988
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The Case of the Colorblind Painter
November 19, 1987
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 18561867, 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
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Tics
January 29, 1987
“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 OtherClinical 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
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‘Mysteries of the Deaf’: An Exchange
October 23, 1986
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Mysteries of the Deaf
March 27, 1986
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
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The President’s Speech
August 15, 1985
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Do Fish Have Nostrils?
June 13, 1985
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The Autist Artist
April 25, 1985
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The Twins
February 28, 1985
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The Twins and Modular Arithmetic
February 28, 1985
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Hands
November 8, 1984
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The Bull on the Mountain
June 28, 1984
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The Lost Mariner
February 16, 1984
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Oliver Sacks on Mania, Memoir, and Music
September 17, 2008