![]() ![]() Sacks was known for being a brilliant but often painfully shy man. ![]() Since the seventies, Sacks has written books on a large number of medical topics, including Migraine (1970), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), Hallucinations (2012), and two memoirs- Uncle Tungsten (2001) and On the Move (2015). Sacks’s research on these patients, culminating in his use of the L-Dopa drug to revive them from their comas, formed the basis for his book Awakenings (1973). He worked as a neurologist at a hospital in the Bronx, where he came across a group of patients who had been comatose ever since the 1920s “sleepy-sickness” epidemic. Afterwards, he interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, followed by UCLA. Oliver Sacks was born in England, and received his medical degree from Oxford in 1960. ![]()
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