"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" ist ein faszinierendes Werk von Oliver Sacks, das die komplexe Beziehung zwischen Musik und dem menschlichen Gehirn erforscht. Das Buch enthält eine Sammlung von Fallstudien und persönlichen...

Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men...

In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens? How,...

"Die blinde Frau, die sehen kann: Rätselhafte Phänomene unseres Bewusstseins" von Oliver Sacks ist eine faszinierende Erkundung der komplexen und oft rätselhaften Funktionsweise des menschlichen Gehirns. In diesem Buch untersucht Sacks...

'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays...

'Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator' Observer'Sacks writes in the great tradition of literary doctors. He is humane, relaxed and amused, and loved a good anecdote' Spectator'Oliver Sacks...

"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,...

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...

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...

"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...