“I wanted to take home the left-overs from the BBQ, but someone else foiled my plans.”
Oliver SacksBorn 9 Jul 1933. English neurologist and writer. Many of his books relate case histories of neurologically damaged people. His empathy with those afflicted with strange conditions, including. Tourette's syndrome, amnesia, and autism, has been the hallmark of his writings. In his first book, Migraine: Evolution of a Common Disorder (1970, he began his approach of considering mental and emotional states while stressing links between them and physical afflictions. In the late 1960's in New York, he encountered some 80 people suffering from a “sleeping sickness”(known from its spread around the world about 1916-20). He experimented by giving some of them the drug L-DOPA and obtained seemingly amazing results, an “awakening,”but most soon regressed. |
