World-renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has been dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The New York Times. Dr. Sacks is one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time, transforming our understanding of the human mind and restoring narrative to a central place in the practice of medicine.
With profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity, he transports us into the uncanny worlds of his neurological patients — from the surgeon with Tourette’s Syndrome who is compelled to tic every few seconds, but nonetheless performs delicate operations, to the 42-year-old man struck by lightning who suddenly develops an overwhelming passion for classical music and teaches himself to play and even compose Chopinesque sonatas.
Sacks’s bestselling books including Awakenings (inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, entertain, enlighten, and inspire his many fans around the world. His latest book is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
In his stories of individual patients surviving and adapting to various neurological conditions, and his brilliant explorations of the nature of perception, memory, consciousness and creativity, Sacks enlarges our understanding of the complexities of the human mind.
Sacks is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and has been appointed as Columbia University Artist, a new designation at the university.
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Author, Awakenings