1. Happy Birthday, Oliver Sacks! - The National Aphasia Association
In one of them, he narrates how he used to greet aphasia patients by singing “Happy Birthday” to them, irrespective of whether it was their birthday or not. He ...
Dr. Oliver Sacks wrote and told many stories over the years about his patients’ struggles with disease and their feats in the face of extraordinary challenge. In one of them, he narrates how … Continued
2. Seeing Voices | Oliver Sacks
In Seeing Voices, Dr. Sacks launches a journey into the world of Deaf culture, and the neurological and social underpinnings of the remarkable visual language ...
"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought. Sacks one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time." — Los Angeles Times Book Review Seeing Voices “I had never thought about what it might
3. The strange case of Dr Oliver Sacks - The Sydney Morning Herald
31 aug 2015 · The doctor plagued by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome finds they disappear when he operates. It is these adaptations, these other ...
He was famous for his books about people with bizarre neurological disorders. But Oliver Sacks had some very impressive mental quirks of his own. Fenella Souter reports.
4. [PDF] Oliver-Sacks-The-PresidentS-Speech ...
Thus, to demonstrate their aphasia, one had to go to extraordinary lengths, as a neurologist, to speak and behave un-naturally, to remove all the extraverbal ...
5. 'Speech is a part of thought': Oliver Sacks | New Zealand Doctor
10 mei 2019 · Churchill wrote, “Sometimes a slight and not unpleasing stammer or impediment has been of some assistance in securing the attention of the ...
Gayle Robins rounds up the clinical education content in the latest issue of New Zealand Doctor. Use the embedded links to go through to the relevant ELearning page
6. Oliver Sacks · The man who mistook his wife for a hat
19 mei 1983 · ... speech (aphasia) consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain. This opened the way to a cerebral ...
The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech (aphasia) consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain. This opened the way to a cerebral neurology, which made it possible, over the decades, to ‘map’ the human brain, ascribing specific powers to equally specific ‘centres’ in the brain.
7. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life - John McDonald
27 nov 2020 · Sacks was precocious but also insecure, with a slight speech impediment. Matters were made worse by being sent away to a horror boarding ...
Has any book ever had a better title than The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat? When Oliver Sacks’s collection of neurological case studies was published in 1985 it became a surprise bestseller and turned its author into a celebrity. It was a dramatic turnaround for a doctor whose literary ambitions had been […]
8. On the Timely Demise of Oliver Sacks - Mammal/Fish
2 sep 2015 · ... ; and that his peculiar speech impediment--the lipped swallowing of R's into W's--will no longer exist from that mouth. He was a…
It’s a little weird that the world should keep turning; and my dear friends will maintain their own unique mental illnesses without such a man to write lyrically about them, in particular, un…
9. Musicophilia: Six Questions for Oliver Sacks, by Scott Horton
28 jul 2009 · ... Oliver Sacks. 3. You also talk about aphasia—a condition in which there is an impairment of speech and speech comprehension—and note that ...
Columbia University Professor Oliver Sacks is probably the country's best known neurologist. But his greatest talent may be his ability to make the
10. Behind the Science: The Notoriety of Oliver Sacks - Bluesci
He has suffered from migraines accompanied by visual hallucinations since the age of four and also has the relatively common condition prosopagnosia, or face- ...
Robin Lamboll looks at the controversial career of a neurologist who works with music
11. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks - ECHO
The neurologist Oliver Sacks must be one of the few authors reviewed in ... Patients with aphasia (the inability to speak due to problems in the brain ...
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks. New York: Vintage Books, 2008. [450p. ISBN: 9781400033539, $26.00 (hardcover).]
12. Aphasia vs. Agnosia: Explanation and Case Studies | Shortform Books
2 jul 2021 · Oliver Sacks' case studies of aphasia vs. agnosia begin with a study of aphasiacs. Neurologists often speak of brain disorders in terms of ...
What is the difference between aphasia and agnosia? Psychologist Oliver Sacks explains each one and gives case studies of both. Read more.