Оливер Сакс

Год рождения: 1933 oliversacks.com

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Оливер Уольф Сакс — британский невролог и автор, известный своими бестселлерами о пациентах с неврологическими расстройствами.
Родившись в Лондоне в медицинской семье, он учился в Оксфордском университете, прежде чем переехать в Соединенные Штаты.
Сакс много работал с выжившими после энцефалита летаргика, что вдохновило его на написание книги «Пробуждения».
Он занимал должности в нескольких престижных учреждениях, включая Колумбийский университет и Медицинскую школу Нью-Йоркского университета.
Сакс получил множество наград и почестей за свои достижения в области неврологии и литературы, включая звание Командора Ордена Британской империи.
Его работа соединила научный и гуманистический подходы в медицине.

Книги автора Оливер Сакс

Человек, который принял жену за шляпу, и другие истории из врачебной практики

— Оливер Сакс • 1985

When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.

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Человек, который принял жену за шляпу, и другие истории из врачебной практики

When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.

— Оливер Сакс 1985 243 стр.

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🩺 Narrative Medicine 🧠 Popular Neuroscience 🤝 Clinical Empathy 🧩 Brain And Identity 📋 Case Histories

Musicophilia

— Oliver Sacks • 2007

When language and memory fail, music still gets through. A neurologist explains why.

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🧠 Music And The Brain 🩻 Clinical Case Studies 🧬 Neuroplasticity 🎵 Music Therapy 👂 Sensory Perception

Musicophilia

When language and memory fail, music still gets through. A neurologist explains why.

— Oliver Sacks 2007 425 стр.

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🧠 Music And The Brain 🩻 Clinical Case Studies 🧬 Neuroplasticity 🎵 Music Therapy 👂 Sensory Perception

Hallucinations

— Oliver Sacks • 2012

Hallucinations are not the brain breaking. They are the brain showing how it builds reality.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 👁️ Hallucinations 🌌 Altered States 👂 Sensory Perception 💭 Consciousness Studies

Hallucinations

Hallucinations are not the brain breaking. They are the brain showing how it builds reality.

— Oliver Sacks 2012 352 стр.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 👁️ Hallucinations 🌌 Altered States 👂 Sensory Perception 💭 Consciousness Studies

On the Move

— Oliver Sacks • 2015

Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 🩺 Medical Memoir 🧬 Neurological Disorders 📖 Narrative Medicine 🔄 Neuroplasticity

On the Move

Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.

— Oliver Sacks 2015 397 стр.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 🩺 Medical Memoir 🧬 Neurological Disorders 📖 Narrative Medicine 🔄 Neuroplasticity

Awakenings

— Oliver Sacks • 1973

Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.

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Awakenings

Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.

— Oliver Sacks 1973 567 стр.

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🔬 Clinical Neurology 🫀 Humanistic Medicine 🧠 Neuroplasticity 💊 Experimental Medicine 📖 Patient Narratives

The Mind's Eye

— Oliver Sacks • 2010

Blindness doesn't silence the visual brain. It retrains it, exposing how perception is built.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🩺 Clinical Neurology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 👁️ Visual Perception 👂 The Senses

The Mind's Eye

Blindness doesn't silence the visual brain. It retrains it, exposing how perception is built.

— Oliver Sacks 2010 263 стр.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🩺 Clinical Neurology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 👁️ Visual Perception 👂 The Senses

Uncle Tungsten

— Oliver Sacks • 2001

A boy, a bar of tungsten, a brutal wartime school: how chemistry became Oliver Sacks's sanctuary.

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🧪 Chemical Memoir 📜 History Of Chemistry 🇬🇧 Wartime England 🛡️ Intellectual Refuge 👁️ Sensory Discovery

Uncle Tungsten

A boy, a bar of tungsten, a brutal wartime school: how chemistry became Oliver Sacks's sanctuary.

— Oliver Sacks 2001 337 стр.

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🧪 Chemical Memoir 📜 History Of Chemistry 🇬🇧 Wartime England 🛡️ Intellectual Refuge 👁️ Sensory Discovery

Everything in Its Place

— Oliver Sacks • 2019

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

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🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine 👁️ Altered Perception 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry

Everything in Its Place

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

— Oliver Sacks 2019 288 стр.

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🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine 👁️ Altered Perception 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry

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