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Dr. Oliver Sacks was a neurologist and author. He wrote many books about the brain including "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain".

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“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”
- Oliver Sacks
#QuoteOfTheDay #OliverSacks #Wisdom #Disease #Medicine

List Tuesday! Check our new Eclectic Winter Reading List for bit of late winter reading, a very short illustrated list... A bit of everything such that all should find something fun and engaging! Check our bio and the Catalogs TAB. Happy cozy reading! #winterreading #occultbooks #oliversacks

'Hij beschrijft gestoorden – nou ja, mensen met grotendeels verzonnen stoornissen, die Sacks soms zelf had – maar ik lees ze met bewondering en blijf verbaasd over zijn analyses.’ Theodor Holman

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In een dagboek uit 1985 bekent Oliver Sacks dat „er een gevoel van afschuwelijke misdaad (psychologisch)” aan zijn werk kleeft. Hij had zijn patiënten „krachten toegedicht die ze niet bezitten”. Frits Abrahams

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The #Lies and #Falsifications of #OliverSacks. In a recent bombshell piece for the New Yorker, Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. What she found was shocking: he had fabricated and embellished some of his most well-known work — like […]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks for the Tuesday Book Club from P-Wave Press

This week’s #TuesdayBookClub pick is The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks—a book that shaped how many of us think about the brain and its mysteries. Strange, moving, humane and still powerfully relevant. #OliverSacks #Neurodiversity #BookSky
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From the Library of Dr. Oliver Sacks: Book Review #6: The Short Stories of Henry James NOTE: Today’s book review was inspired by another book entitled Letters. That book was a memoir of scientist and storyteller Dr. Oliver Sacks, told through a lifetime of his personal correspondence…

Here is the latest in my series of book reviews from the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks. This time, we are talking about Henry James. From the Library of Dr. Oliver Sacks: Book Review #6: The Short Stories of Henry James #TheAspernPapers #HenryJames #OliverSacks tommacinneswriter.com/2025/10/02/f...

From the Library of Dr. Oliver Sacks: Book Review #5: The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn NOTE: Today’s book review was inspired by another book entitled Letters. That book was a memoir of scientist and storyteller Dr. Oliver Sacks, told through a lifetime of his personal correspondence…

*Dr. Oliver Sacks (of Awakenings fame) wrote a memoir called Letters in which he referenced over 200 books, poems and articles that helped shape his life. I am reviewing all of them, in order. Feel free to come along for the ride. Enjoy. tommacinneswriter.com/2025/09/23/f... #ThomGunn #OliverSacks

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

🧠✒️ Dr #OliverSacks, English Neurologist and author (Awakenings), #DOTD 30 August 2015.

I've loved everything I've ever ready by Oliver Sacks. Currently reading this one.
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My Travels with Oliver Sacks | Lowell Handler We were close for a long time. I was his photographer, colleague, friend, subject, and occasional collaborator. He used to say that he wanted to take off his white doctor’s coat and see Tourette’s in ...

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I wonder whether my upcoming trip to #Amsterdam will be as interesting as #OliverSacks'.

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, by Oliver Sacks

In between buying this and picking it up to read, I read a really boring biography about neurologist / author #OliverSacks and that put me off reading about his life for a few years! But this is actually quite a wonderful, weird little book, narrating the […]

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💫 Zerka’s message for us now:
📍 Be present.
📍 Be spontaneous.
📍 Be together.
Even as the machine hums around us, let’s choose the living stage — for grief, for joy, for meaning.

#Bluesky #Grief #OliverSacks #ZerkaMoreno #Psychodrama #Humanity #Connection #CaliforniaGriefCenter

Oliver Sacks English-American neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks was BOTD in 1933. Born and raised in London, he was educated at private schools, and studied physiology at Oxford University, following his fath…

English-American neurologist, writer and hot leatherman Oliver Sacks, best known for his books “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”, was BOTD in 1933. #oliversacks #supergays #bornonthisday

Happy Birthday to Dr. Oliver Sacks! We have posted a short list from his private library that we hope reflects his questing mind and interests. Enjoy. #oliversacks #neurodivergence
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"Perception is never purely in the present – it has to draw on experience of the past; this is why Gerald M. Edelman speaks of "the remembered present.""

🧠 Remembering Dr #OliverSacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic, #BOTD 9 July 1933. #Neurology #Literature

Ink and wash portrait of Oliver Sacks. He is one of my favorites for the humanism and philosophical perspective that he brings to science and neurology. #inkportrait, #inkandwatercolor, #inkandwash, #oliversacks

Este es el libro del que acabamos de hablar en @elojocritico.bsky.social www.anagrama-ed.es/libro/argume... #OliverSacks @anagramaeditor.bsky.social

Book of the Month: Awakenings by Dr. Oliver Sacks Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) found global fame with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), a collection of fascinating case studies. Prior to that, he came to public attention w…

Book review on Dr. Oliver Sacks' mightily impressive 1973 work Awakenings. It covers the encephalitis lethargica epidemic from the 1920s, with some individuals left catatonic for decades, before L-DOPA brought them "back" to life: professionalmoron.com/2025/06/21/a... #Awakenings #OliverSacks

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'(I went) ... to Blackwell’s bookshop (next door to the pub) and bought, for £44, the twelve volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, for me the most coveted and desirable book in the world.'
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What's behind the LoFi Girl YouTube channel 🎧

LoFi Girl is a 24/7 YouTube channel that features an animated girl sitting quietly, doing work while listening to low-fi hip-hop music. The channel has become a hit with people looking for help focusing on their own work […]

📚Chandalito recomienda 📚:

Un antropólogo en marte
(Oliver Sacks)

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How the ‘Island of the Colourblind’ made Oliver Sacks rethink ‘normal’, a beautiful film portraying thoughts of a beautiful human being.

#colorblindness #oliversacks #neurodiversity #neurrotypical

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Please use #AltText and #AltImage.

Someone your constituents have #LowVision. Some are #Blind. Some are #older or need high contrast for other reasons. A few of us are #FaceBlind [which is a recognized neurological disability. Dr. #OliverSacks was face-blind].

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Cover of the book “Musicophilia” by Oliver Sacks

I love this man and I love this book. It attempts to explain why music is so importantto humanity, seemingly something that has no physical or corporeal benefit. Fascinating stuff.

A great loss to the world when he died.

#booksky #musicsky #oliversacks #musicophilia

Teabag tag resting on woven Japanese cloth with red and white geometric design. Tag reads “This life is a gift”

Theme emerging for this week’s #Gratituesday note… Hop on the list here, if so inclined: eepurl.com/gXeqO1

#grateful #gratitude #gratitudelist #gratitudepractice #oliversacks

Selections from my #homelibrary:
#OliverSacks “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
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