Why Is Oliver Sacks Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Oliver Wolf Sacks, was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1960, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. He then interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology and neuropathology at the University of California, Los Angeles . After a fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he served as neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital's chronic-care facility in the Bronx, where he worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica, who had been unable to move on their own for decades. His treatment of those patients became the basis of his 1973 book Awakenings, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 1990, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
Oliver Sacks's Published Works
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 750 800 Published Papers The man who mistook his wife for a hat. (1995) An anthropologist on Mars (1994) (411)Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf. (1989) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007) (305)A leg to stand on (1984) (299)Cycad neurotoxins, consumption of flying foxes, and ALS-PDC disease in Guam. (2002) An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) The power of music. (2006) Effects of levodopa in parkinsonian patients with dementia (1972) The Island of the Colorblind (1997) (62)Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe (1996) Klüver–Bucy syndrome, hypersexuality, and the law (2010) Tourette's syndrome and creativity. (1992) Silent retroperitoneal fibrosis associated with methysergide therapy. (1968) Oligodendroglioma with remote metastases. Case report. (1968) Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001) Acquired Tourettism in adult life. (1982) (35)On the immunity principle: a view from a robot (2000) Spongy degeneration of white matter (1965) Side-effects of L-dopa in postencephalic parkinsonism. (1970) L-dopa and oculogyric crises. (1970) Hereditary photomyoclonus associated with diabetes mellitus, deafness, nephropathy, and cerebral dysfunction (1964) The island of the colour-blind and cycad island (1996) (29)Steroid dementia: an overlooked diagnosis? (2005) My Own Life (2012) The Paradoxical Brain: Index (2011) Steroid dementia: An overlooked diagnosis? (2005) The Language of the Deaf (1991) Musicophilia. Tales of Music and the Brain. London (Picador) 2008. (2008) (22)Effects of L-dopa in patients with dementia. (1970) The origin of "Awakenings". (1983) A NEUROLOGIST’S NOTEBOOK (2000) (20)Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder (1985) (20)Incontinent nostalgia induced by L-dopa. (1970) Long-term effects of levodopa in the severely disabled patient. (1970) Henry Cavendish: An early case of Asperger’s syndrome? (2001) On the Move: A Life (2015) Selective emotional detachment from family after right temporal lobectomy (2003) Freud and the neurosciences : from brain research to the unconscious (1998) (17)A new vision of the mind. (1994) Neuropsychiatry and Tourette’s (1989) Prosopometamorphopsia and facial hallucinations (2014) Regaining binocular stereoscopic vision in adulthood. A case report. A neurologist's notebook. Stereo Sue. Why two eyes are better than one. (Reprinted with permission from The New Yorker, June 19, 2006). (2006) (12)Face-blind: why are some of us terrible at recognizing faces? (2010) (10)THE MIND ' S EYE What the blind see . BY OLIVER SACKS (2004) (9)Hallucinations of musical notation. (2013) Hallervorden Spatz disease (2004) Guam ALS-PDC: possible causes. (1993) Sudden deafness from stroke (2006) Hidden Histories of Science (1995) (8)Parkinsonism--a so-called new disease. (1971) The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology: Luria and “Romantic Science” (2014) A compulsive collecting behavior following an A-com aneurysmal rupture (2001) A neurology of belief (2008) The axonal dystrophies. (1966) (6)Oliver Sack's Awakenings: Reshaping Clinical Discourse (1993) A neurologist's perspective on the aging brain. (1997) Effect of antiepileptic drugs on bone density in ambulatory patients. Author's reply (2004) (6)Narrative and medicine. (1993) (5)The central effects of peripheral injury (2012) The prevalence of migraine in neurologists [1] (multiple letters) (2004) (5)Luria and "Romantic Science" (2019) Steroid dementia: A follow-up (2007) Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales (2019) (4)On the move. (2008) Musical ability (1995) Seeing is believing as brain reveals its adaptability (2006) Two types of neurologist: remembering Michael Kremer and Roger Gilliatt (2014) Awakenings. London (Picador) 1991. (1991) (2)The best American science writing. (2006) (2)Nadar hasta morir (1997) (2)Weighing the neurological complexities of long-term levodopa use. (2000) Remembering Francis Crick (2005) (2)Abnormal mouth-movements and oral damage associated with L-DOPA treatment. (1970) (1)A neurologist's notebook: a bolt from the blue: where do sudden passions come from? (2007) (1)Stinks and Bangs (2008) Another Day in the Monkey's Brain (2012) Tourette’s Syndrome: A Human Condition (2004) L-dopa for progressive suparanulcear palsy. (1969) (1)Social "Mentalizing" Abilities in Mental Patients (2000) Gowers' memory. (1996) Sudden deafness from stroke. Author's reply (2006) (1)Clinical tales. (1986) Full Access Discussion: Commentaries by Richard Macksey and Oliver Sacks (1994) A matter of identity (1998) (0)Awakenings : based on a true story (2010) (0)The prevalence of migraine in neurologists (2004) THE MAN WHO TILTED (1985) Brain death worldwide: Accepted fact but no global consensus in diagnostic criteria (2006) (0)A Note on Thom Gunn's "Lament" (2016) (0)Gowers' memory (1996) Reply to Norra et al (2018) (0)Como un rayo caído del cielo: musicofilia súbita (2008) (0)On Writing-Up : Shame and Clinical Writing (2018) The Paradoxical Brain: Foreword (2011) Book Reviews (1930) OLIVER SACKS (2020) Tourette’s Syndrome: A Human Condition (2004) Medicine and Books (1985) The genetics of sporadic Parkinson ' s disease (2015) (0)Michael Powell's neurological cinema (2009) A man of letters: Why was the morning paper suddenly in a foreign language? (2010) (0)The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1995) The Mind's Eye (2021) Mendeleev's Garden (2016) (0)Panel: Art & Science (2003) (0)Obituary (1891) Why Michael Couldn't Hit (1997) Brain, Self, and Society: An Instructive Review of Two Books on Music and the Brain (2008) (0)PATENT LAW AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF INNOVATION (2013) (0)Gowers' memory (2011) 'Exchanges' - Conversations with... Oliver Sacks (2013) (0)Falling Towers and Postmodern Wild Children : Oliver Sacks (2015) (0)The 'dark, paradoxical gift' (1991) Mental Lives (1993) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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