Oliver Sacks Audio & Video

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....

Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Throughout his career Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and acclaimed author, has encountered myriad patients who are struggling to cope with debilitating medical conditions, including autism and Tourette's syndrome.

This twelfth episode of the Charlie Rose Brain Series is probably the least interesting of the series as it has little to say about the brain science involved in creativity.

Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury....

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder....

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date.

Essayist-physician Oliver Sacks looks at music and its mysterious relationship to the brain in his latest book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.

Awakenings - which inspired the motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the epidemic just after World War I....

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations.

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture....