Oliver Sacks's strangest cases

Oliver Sacks is a neuroscientist and wrote that "his wife has problems with his hat." He passed away at the age of 82. Scholars born in London have autographed several books on abnormal medical condition, such as awakening, a wife dressed in a hat, an island of color blindness. This is his most strange example.

A case of Dr. Oliver Sachs in the 1960s was a victim of the epidemic of "sleeping sickness" (encephalitis virus) which had become popular in the 1920s at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York, and the patient who came to use Sack We involved the group. The word "to freeze" for decades. Treatment with the experimental drug L-DOPA "woke up" them to a world of great change. The book "Awakening" published by Sachs in 1973 affected the 1990 movie starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams (bottom).

Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University and a consultant for livestock industry. She is also ridiculed as a "recorder" at school because she tends to repeat it again and again and again with autism. Sachs wrote her about her 1995 book "Martian Anthropologist". This is what Grandin mentioned as her life in the "nervous" group. In 2010, she produced a TV movie about her life, played by Claire Dennis (bottom left), Grading (bottom right).

Criminal writer Howard Engel (picture below, Alan Yetub ... playing in the imagination of BBC One) is the author of a series of novels by private detective Benny Cooperman. After a stroke, Engel suddenly discovered that he could no longer recognize words and letters. The newspaper appears to be written in Cypress's alphabet. But Engel discovered later that he can still write without problems. He is writing a novel by Cooper Mann. Sachs wrote him in the book "Eyes of the Mind" which was published in 2010.

Shirl Jennings - A man who forgot how to view the person who was born when Shirl Jennings was 10 years old in 1950 could only distinguish between light and dark. After more than 40 years, Jennings' eyesight has improved after surgery, but now he can not associate what he saw with his visual memory. He must learn how to associate images of objects with their refineries and emotions. Oliver was writing about him in his 1995 paper "Seeing or Not Watching". This inspired the 1999 film "The First Eye" and starred Val Kilmer.

Neurologists recently revealed that he was blind for the rest of his life. From his face he could not even recognize him who is familiar. Because the conditions are so severe, Sachs said in the imagination of BBC One, "Before they realized what they were seeing in the mirror, they began to apologize to a man who had a stupid beard."

Oliver Sachs, a founding neurologist and author, died at the age of 82 on Sunday, August 30. In his study of occasional strange patient case studies - which he calls it a "neural novel" - saxophone can capture mankind in pathology. In 2002, Steve Silberman wrote an article about Sax's own case study. One night in 1940, a bomb rolled from the sky into the garden in northern London, thousands of white hot alumina exploded and stacked on the lawn. 37 Resident of the house of Mapesbury Road - two Jewish doctors and their sons - a bucket that throws into the fire will only promote a chemical reaction. Surprisingly, no one was hurt, but the shine of the bomb gives the immeasurable impression to the heart of Oliver Sacks, he fell down at the age of seven. Heat is the second of the second person delivered to Mepesberry Road during the war. First, a 1000 pound monster landed next to but did not explode

Oliver Sacks is a neuroscientist and wrote that "his wife has problems with his hat." He passed away at the age of 82. Scholars born in London have autographed several books on abnormal medical condition, such as awakening, a wife dressed in a hat, an island of color blindness. This is his most strange example. A case of Dr. Oliver Sachs in the 1960s was a victim of the epidemic of "sleeping sickness" (encephalitis virus) which had become popular in the 1920s at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York, and the patient who came to use Sack We involved the group. The word "to freeze" for decades. Treatment with the experimental drug L-DOPA "woke up" them to a world of great change. The book "Awakening" published by Sachs in 1973 affected the 1990 movie starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams (bottom).