Dive into the life of the neurologist and author who helped redefine our understanding of the brain. "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" premieres April 9 at 9/8c. #OliverSacksPBS #Documentary #Film | American Masters
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Dive into the life of the neurologist and author who helped redefine our understanding of the brain. "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" premieres April 9 at 9/8c. #OliverSacksPBS #Documentary #Film | American Masters
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Discover the remarkable life and work of the legendary neurologist. Dr. Oliver Sacks. 👨‍⚕️ Oliver Sacks: His Own Life now streaming on DocPlay. | DocPlay
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Discover the remarkable life and work of the legendary neurologist. Dr. Oliver Sacks. 👨‍⚕️ Oliver Sacks: His Own Life now streaming on DocPlay. | DocPlay
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | Documentary by Ric Burns - Oliver Sacks | Official Website of Author, Neurologist & Foundation
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | Documentary by Ric Burns - Oliver Sacks | Official Website of Author, Neurologist & Foundation
May 24, 2022
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Oliver Sacks plays piano and talks about how it feels to return to Beth Abraham, the chronic-care hospital where Sacks worked in the mid-1960s as a young neurologist and where the events of his book Awakenings took place. This clip is from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, an intimate and deeply moving film that explores the life and legacy of the legendary neurologist who transformed how we understand the mind, identity, and what it means to be human. The New York Academy of Sciences, HHMI Tangled Ba
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Oliver Sacks plays piano and talks about how it feels to return to Beth Abraham, the chronic-care hospital where Sacks worked in the mid-1960s as a young neurologist and where the events of his book Awakenings took place. This clip is from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, an intimate and deeply moving film that explores the life and legacy of the legendary neurologist who transformed how we understand the mind, identity, and what it means to be human. The New York Academy of Sciences, HHMI Tangled Ba
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In cinemas now. The inspirational documentary, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. 🧠 "The brain is the most incredible thing in the universe" – Dr. Oliver Sacks. | Madman Films
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In cinemas now. The inspirational documentary, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. 🧠 "The brain is the most incredible thing in the universe" – Dr. Oliver Sacks. | Madman Films
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Neurologist Oliver Sacks' legacy and final days explored in 'His Own Life'
Neurologist Oliver Sacks' legacy and final days explored in 'His Own Life'
Apr 9, 2021
NBC NewsDan Avery
OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller: intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE commences Thursday 3 December at Cinema Nova! | Cinema Nova
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OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller: intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE commences Thursday 3 December at Cinema Nova! | Cinema Nova
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Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain’s Quirks, Dies at 82
Aug 30, 2015
NY TimesGregory Cowles
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Oliver Sacks talks about how taking hallucinogens helped him understand his patients. As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing over the next few months we will be sharing clips from the archives. Follow along for more. This footage was shot by @DempseyRice who’s currently working on @animatedfilmoliversacks. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Famed neuroscientist Oliver Sacks dies at 82
Aug 30, 2015
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Oliver Sacks: A Tale of Awakenings | World Science Festival
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This is What Oliver Sacks Learned on LSD and Amphetamines
Aug 23, 2012
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The strange case of Dr Sacks
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How Brilliant Minds Connects to Groundbreaking Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks
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The Mind's Eye | Oliver Sacks | Talks at Google
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On this day in 2015, we lost Dr. Oliver Sacks, a brilliant mind and deeply empathetic man. This clip from an old doc on Awakenings shows how fascinated he was by the human condition, and how much he advocated for the treatment of each patient as an individual person rather than a pathology. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Awakening the Mind: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Oliver Sacks | World Science Festival
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Author Oliver Sacks dead at 82
Aug 18, 2023
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Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015 In this clip from a lecture he gave at Vanderbilt University in 1999, he talks about how many different "ways of being" there are. Transcribed here: "There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving. Although one has to talk about normality or mean or average or deviation or standard deviations in a sort of statis
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Oliver Sacks, Author and Neurologist, Dies at 82
Aug 30, 2015
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Physicians as Writers: Oliver Sacks in Conversation with Danielle Ofri
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Robin Williams plays a character based on Oliver Sacks in the 1990 film Awakenings. The film tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (based on Oliver) who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa in 1969. He administers it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Robert De Niro plays one of his patients. Celebrate the Awakenings opera by watching a live screening of the newly digitized 1990 film Awakenings with Robin Williams and R
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As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing, we are proud and thrilled to report that his legacy remains as relevant and inspiring as ever. Immersing oneself in an Oliver Sacks book, especially in these times of uncertainty and strife around the globe, reminds us of the profound wonders and powers of nature and the human mind. His values of respect and understanding for every individual are timeless. This clip of Robert Krulwich is from Ric Burns’ documentary, “Oliver Sacks: His O
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Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks | World Science Festival
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Dr. Oliver Sacks On Coping with Brain Injury and Illness
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Oliver Sacks talks about his experiences taking large quantities of amphetamines. As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing we will be sharing clips from the archives. Follow along for more. This footage was shot by @dempsey.rice Rice who’s currently working on @oliversacksfilm. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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The New York Botanical Garden: Dr. Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Sacks on Music and Mind
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