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Oliver Sacks

In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

Monday, October 22, 2007 | Palace of Fine Arts, 8pm

Neurologist Oliver Sacks informs, at times transforming, our notion of the brain with his celebrated case studies. Balancing science and humanity, Sacks relates all the ways in which individuals survive and adapt to different neurological diseases and conditions, and what their struggles tell us about the human mind. As a physician and writer, Sacks is perhaps best known for The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a collection of case histories of patients living with Tourette's Syndrome, autism, parkinsonism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease, and other psycho-neurological conditions. Sacks is renowned for restoring narrative to a central place in medicine, in books such as An Anthropologist on Mars and Awakenings, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Sacks continues his consistently fascinating, intense, and thoughtful chronicles of neurological patients in Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Examining all aspects of the melodic experience, Sacks shows how music is not only about sound, but also movement, visualization, expression, and silence.

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