The Man Who Mistook His Wife for His Hat by Oliver Sacks

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A neurologist who claims to be equally interested in disease and people, Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings. These cases illustrate the tragedy of losing neurological faculties-memory, powers of visualization, word-recognition-and the devastating fate of those suffering an excess of neurological functions causing such hyper states as chorea, tics, Tourette's syndrome and Parkinsonism. Still other patients experience organically based hallucinations, transports, visions, etc., usually deemed to be psychic in nature. The science of neurology, Sacks charges, stresses the abstract and computerized at the expense of judgment and emotional depths in his view, the most important human qualities. Therapy for brain-damaged patients (by medication, accommodation, music or art) should, he asserts, be designed to help restore the essentially personal quality of the individual. 11 copies in library system including on CD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDS4c8j2ix8 10 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxoMi1s_TJk . 52 min theater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5sXPyXtWYc 7 min review

From Rochester Scientific Thinkers Book Group