the man who mistook his wife for a hat by oliver sacks

The science of neurology, Sacks charges, stresses the abstract and computerized at the expense of judgment and emotional depthsin his view, the most important human qualities. Still other patients experience organically based hallucinations, transports, visions, etc., usually deemed to be psychic in nature. These cases, some of which have appeared in literary or medical publications, illustrate the tragedy of losing neurological facultiesmemory, powers of visualization, word-recognitionor the also-devastating fate of those suffering an excess of neurological functions causing such hyper states as chorea, tics, Tourette's syndrome and Parkinsonism. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Ī neurologist who claims to be equally interested in disease and people, Sacks (Awakenings, etc.) explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings. 'A gripping journey into the recesses of the human mind'.

'This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it'. Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be'. 'Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. In Dr Sacks' splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity.

These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects whose limbs have become alien and, who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness'. 'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist.

The man who mistook his wife for a hat by oliver sacks