For another, it discourages people with acute conditions from coming forward ... their neuroses and psychoses in pastoral quiet. Dr. Oliver Sacks, who worked with catatonic patients in New York ...
An ‘Awakenings’ opera that shows Oliver Sacks as his friends knew him — a gay man
Dr. Oliver Sacks received worldwide acclaim for writing about his experiences with people who had unusual neurological conditions. His work spawned several adaptations for the stage and screen.
The brain in autism
Because of a lack of population studies, it is unclear how many children suffer from autistic conditions or where they are to be ... children’s autism,” writes the English neurologist Oliver Sacks in ...
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul
Some fifty psychologists and others, including Gloria Steinem and Oliver Sacks, signed a petition denouncing the proposed ... At one level, the answer is obvious: the symposium. Not only does ...
Pingelap, Micronesia: the island of the colorblind
Achromatopsia Most of the inhabitants of this atoll suffer from a form of extreme color blindness called achromatopsia, as Dr. Oliver ... condition Pingelap had piqued the attention of Dr. Sacks ...
Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience
This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain's relationship to the self.Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary ...
Summer reading: the 50 hottest new books for a great escape
How does a distant inexplicable event in a Canadian ... hearing and touch. A latter-day Oliver Sacks, Leschziner brings the strangeness of our human faculties to life. The Palace Papers by Tina ...
Real trip: the science in premonitions
Knight has lucked on to a killer story, and boy does he know it ... tales of cognitive oddities in the mode of Oliver Sacks. We are pattern-hungry creatures, he shows us, and our brains betray ...
Growing Up With Iowa: Episodes in a Life of a Hundred Years
Then Dan’l had lofts and barns where wool and hides could be stored, so he used to buy sheep, shear them, pack the wool into sacks ... that old creek does n’t rise any more at all.
Jorgie Porter is pregnant! Hollyoaks star confirms she is expecting her first child
The Hollyoaks actress, who is expecting her first child with fiancé Oliver Piotrowski ... The doctor said we can see three sacks - we had no idea what that meant. They said "we're gonna rush ...