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	BookPage Interview November 2001: Oliver Sacks
		Sacks writes with intelligence, passion and even humor about key personalities and turning points in the history of chemistry and topics ranging from metals and minerals to photography and spectroscopy.
		Overriding the darker moments is Sacks' unalloyed enthusiasm for the discoveries of science.
		Sacks says he was a scribbler, a keeper of journals, from way back.
	www.bookpage.com /0111bp/oliver_sacks.html (564 words)

	Wired 10.04: The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks
		Sacks has been turning his analytical gaze inward more often these days, after four decades of studying the minds of those with such disorders as autism, Tourette's syndrome, loss of proprioception, and the sudden onset of color blindness.
		Sacks' voice is the voice of his books - precise, probing, and epigrammatic - softened by the slight anomaly that phonologists call the gliding of liquids, so that "bronze" comes out "bwonze," which gives his speech an endearing boyish quality.
		As a boy, Sacks had explored these galleries with the same sense of freedom he felt in the natural world, seeing the periodic table as "the enchanted garden of Mendeleev." Rather than being frozen in their cases, the museum's exhibits were living manifestations of the ongoing progress of science.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.04/sacks_pr.html (6997 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Germany
		Sacks: The word means ``love of music,'' and I think that 99.999 percent of human beings have it.
		Sacks: When I was about 5, someone asked, ``What are your favorite things in the world?'' and I said, ``Bach and smoked salmon.'' Seventy years later, it's still the case.
		Sacks: If someone has a stroke and loses the area of the left frontal lobe necessary for language, they may still be able to sing, and often to sing with the lyrics.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aNU_sMF22ymU (924 words)

	"Uncle Tungsten" by Oliver Sacks - Salon
		Oliver Sacks recalls his childhood romance with chemistry in a book so delightful that even the scientifically illiterate will fall for it, too.
		Wrapped up inside all of that, Sacks also tells his own story: a boy whose blissful English childhood was shattered at the age of 6 when, at the onset of the second World War, he was sent away to a punishingly strict boarding school.
		Sacks is captivated by the romance in science, and like a dashing suitor, he sweeps us along, too.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2001/12/18/sacks/index.html (842 words)

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		Sacks is careful to point out the extent to which any clinical condition—even one as potentially disruptive and intrusive as Tourette's—not only affects but is affected by the individual who lives with it.
		Sacks proposes temporal lobe epilepsy as a possible explanation for the qualitatively distinct power of such memories, yet he is cautious not to over-apply diagnoses that are potentially reductive.
		Sacks also mentions that people with autism are commonly characterized as having difficulty conceptualizing both the minds of others and their own minds.
	www.brainconnection.com /topics/?main=bkrev/sacks-anthropologist (1433 words)

	Oliver Sacks Essay
		Oliver Sacks is a physician gifted in seeing the concrete, individual plights of patients and exploring his insights in medical essays that lead the reader to perceive the marvelous in the mundane, the beautiful in the twisted and suffering, the meaning in the individual rather than a disease possessing an individual.
		Sacks' work in the late 1960s, administering the drug L-dopa to patients whose consciousness had often remained suspended since their youth, led to stunning "awakenings." Some remained trapped in an earlier time, unable to realize that 40 years had passed.
		In place of the reductionist approach of modern medicine, Sacks extols a language that includes both the individual patient and a larger view of nature, both the particular and the general.
	www.custom-essay.net /essay-encyclopedia/Oliver-Sacks-Essay.htm (924 words)

	Oliver Sacks - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Oliver Sacks - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sacks, Oliver, born in 1933, British-born neurologist and author, known for his studies and books about the bizarre effects of neurological...
		Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.
	encarta.msn.com /Oliver_Sacks.html (112 words)

	Oliver Sacks
		Oliver Sacks (born 1933 in London, United Kingdom) is a neurologist who has written popular books about his patients.
		Sacks describe his cases with little clinical detail, concentrating on the experience of the patient (which in one case was himself).
		Sacks' writings have been translated to 21 languages including Catalan, Finnish and Turkish.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ol/Oliver_Sacks.html (341 words)

	A Rehabilitationist's Notebook: Oliver Sacks on Blindness
		Sacks explains that our ability to visualize comes from the brain's capacity to intermix its own functional abilities: "There is increasing evidence from neuroscience for the extraordinarily rich interconnectedness and interactions of the sensory areas of the brain.
		Sacks continually appears awed when he encounters a mental phenomenon that cannot be explained by the sum of all the functional parts of the brain.
		Because Oliver Sacks has been one of the most successful dispensers of scientific information to the general public over the past three decades, it would behoove the blind community to keep him in the loop on how we feel about what he writes.
	www.nfb.org /Images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm03/bm0311/bm031109.htm (3173 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Uncle Tungsten: Books: Oliver Sacks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For young Oliver, unhappy at the brutal boarding school he was sent to during the war, and afraid that he would become mentally ill like his older brother, chemistry was a refuge in an uncertain world.
		Oliver's propensity for intellectual pursuits was further encouraged by his two maternal uncles, Dave and Abe, two scientist/business entrepreneurs, the former nicknamed UNCLE TUNGSTEN for his preoccupation with that element and his process for manufacturing tungsten light bulbs.
		Sacks' joys at "re-learning" what others have done is infectious - he leaves you longing to repeat the experiments for yourself - only to learn, of course, that today's caution has sequestered the materials away to prevent you blundering into harm.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Uncle-Tungsten-Oliver-Sacks/dp/0330390279 (2537 words)

	Oliver Sacks - AwardAnnals
		Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands.
		From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world.
		Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
	www.awardannals.com /wiki/Oliver_Sacks (118 words)

	Profile: Oliver Sacks \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		I would be Dr Oliver Sacks, the intern, wearing a white coat in the daytime, and then, when the day was over, I would take off into the night, and go for long, crazy moonlit rides.
		Sacks was born in London in 1933, the fourth and youngest child of two prosperous doctors, themselves the children of poor Jewish immigrants.
		He had two complaints, he now says, about the book: that Sacks, in his preface, had described the stories as being "at the intersection of fact and fable", and it was unclear which bits were which; and that the style was rather luxuriant and sentimental.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1429477,00.html (3852 words)

	Amazon.com: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales: Books: Oliver Sacks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
		Neurologist Sacks, author of Awakenings and A Leg To Stand On, presents a series of clinical tales drawn from fascinating and unusual cases encountered during his years of medical practice.
		Sacks generously (and brilliantly) shows how Rebecca taught him the limitations of a purely clinical approach to diagnosis and treatment.
	www.amazon.com /Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/0684853949 (1709 words)

	Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the effects of music on the brain
		Sacks clearly takes pleasure in observing that musicians, unlike artists or writers, have distinctly recognizable brains, enlarged and asymmetric in the auditory cortex.
		In his contribution to the field, Sacks is less interested in binding auditory abilities to anatomical functions than in capturing the vast range of the human experience of music -- some can't even tell if a note is going up or down, and others see every pitch as a distinct color.
		Sacks, who says he is so aware of the songs going through his head that he frequently hums out tunes for his therapist, argues that our attraction to music is, at root, very crude.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/335974_book19.html?source=rss (821 words)

	Oliver Sacks . About
		Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England into a family of physicians and scientists (his mother was a surgeon and his father a general practitioner).
		In 1966 Dr. Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care hospital where he encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen states, like human statues, unable to initiate movement.
		The New York Times has referred to Dr. Sacks as "the poet laureate of medicine," and in 2002 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University, which recognizes the scientist as poet.
	www.oliversacks.com /about.htm (402 words)

	YouTube - Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - The Power of Rhythm
		Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His...
		Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses music, the brain, and the power of rhythm to move us, literally and figuratively.
		oliver sacks rhythm dance dancing musicophilia music neurology neurologist brain amnesia science
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=GHb_aqP4JgY (401 words)

	Amazon.com: Vintage Sacks: Books: Oliver Sacks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Here is what Dr. Sacks has to say, "For the prelingually deaf, unable to hear their parents, risk being severely retarded, if not permanently defective, in their graps of language unless early and effective measures are taken." I'm sure you've wondered, as I have, if given a choice, would you rather be blind or deaf.
		The title "the poet laureate of medicine" is clearly a befitting one for Oliver Sacks.
		Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who writes about science.
	www.amazon.com /Vintage-Sacks-Oliver/dp/1400033977 (1573 words)

	YouTube - oliver sacks - Musicophilia - Music Therapy and Parkinson's
		Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the effect of music therapy on Parkinson's disease patients.
		oliver sacks music therapy parkinson's musicophilia neurology neurologist brain amnesia science
		Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - The Power of Rhythm
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=9nnLTPPDRXI (441 words)

	Oliver Sacks - The New York Review of Books
		Oliver Sacks - The New York Review of Books
		Oliver Sacks practices neurology in New York City.
		The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain by Israel Rosenfield, Introduction by Oliver Sacks
	www.nybooks.com /authors/1246 (1132 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		Awakenings author and famed neurologist Oliver Sacks once described the secret to his signature style: "For me, writing and medicine, writing and science, are not separate: they entail each other."
		Featuring key excerpts, essays, and other supplemental materials, this helpful introductory reader is a great way to get started on exploring Sacks's body of work.
		Sacks lives on City Island in the Bronx where, according to a Salon interview, he raises ferns and cycads, and swims in Long Island Sound almost every day.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&vcqty=1&cid=89982 (211 words)

	December 30, 2005, Hour Two: Oliver Sacks / What Scientists Owe the Public
		In close to a dozen books, neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks has documented his studies of the mysteries of the human brain.
		" The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks.
		"The Island of the Colorblind" by Oliver Sacks.
	www.sciencefriday.com /pages/2005/Dec/hour2_123005.html (300 words)

	Science Show - 10/01/98: Dr Oliver Sacks (Transcript attached)
		Robyn Williams: Today a Science Show special - it comes from the Australian National University where Dr Oliver Sacks gave the inaugural lecture at the Centre for Mind.
		I'm Robyn Williams, and Dr Sacks was played by my American namesake in the film Awakenings, as you'll hear.
		Robyn Williams: That was Dr Oliver Sacks speaking at the Centre for The Mind, at the Australian National University in Canberra.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s10338.htm (5514 words)

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