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Hallucinations

Pages
336
Published
2012
Language
English

Synopsis

A neurologist's collection of case studies and personal essays exploring the boundaries of the human mind, memory, and perception through patients with rare neurological conditions — including vivid hallucinations, aphasia, and memory loss — each told as a deeply human portrait rather than a clinical report.

About the author

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of...