NEW YORK – JUNE 3: Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks speaks at Columbia University June 3, 2009 in New York City. Dr. Sacks, who was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center
Sacks' 1973 memoir Awakenings was turned into a 1990 film starring Robin Williams, who played a fictionalized version of him onscreen. The story tells of Sacks' quest to use the drug L-Dopa to help his patients — one of whom is played by Robert De
NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author whose books and case histories in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books introduced a lay audience to the furthest corners of human consciousness, died Sunday at his
British author & neurologist Oliver Sacks, who came out in his 2015 autobiography On the Move: A Life, has died at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer.