In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver...

"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" von Oliver Sacks ist eine faszinierende Erkundung der Beziehung zwischen Musik und dem menschlichen Gehirn. In diesem Buch untersucht Sacks, ein renommierter Neurologe, wie Musik verschiedene...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly,...

The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and...

"Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf" von Oliver Sacks ist ein faszinierendes Sachbuch, das sich mit der Welt der Gehörlosen beschäftigt. Sacks untersucht die Geschichte, Kultur und Sprache der Gehörlosengemeinschaft und...

"Awakenings - Zeit des Erwachens" von Alexandre Métraux ist ein fesselnder Roman, der die Geschichte von Menschen erzählt, die nach einem langen Zustand der Isolation und innerer Gefangenschaft wieder ins Leben zurückfinden. Im...

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. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention...

Es scheint, dass es hier eine Verwechslung gibt. "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity" wurde nicht von Oliver Sacks, sondern von Steve Silberman geschrieben. Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined his plans for the last book he would oversee, The River of Consciousness. As an eminent neurologist and highly regarded throughout his life for his far-reaching examinations of the human...

Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf

'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to...

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' Sunday Telegraph Migraine is an age-old - the first recorded instances date back...