Revisiting a disease that affected a million people might provide answers we need for the future.
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Proprioception is the sense that allows us to rapidly know without looking where each part of our body is.
Though Oliver Sacks wrote two memoirs before his death in 2015, a new film brings his joys, hardships and excesses into affectionate focus.
Unravelling the story of how a simple neurotransmitter led to the development of a drug for Parkinson’s disease.
Oliver Sacks, the celebrated neurologic storyteller who died at the end of August at age 82, once described himself as “strongly atheist by disposition.” Sacks could write sensitively about religion, including…
Sacks was able to communicate the fascinating workings of the brain in ways that evoked understanding and compassion.
The popular neurologist revealed earlier this year that he only has months to live – a statement which casts his recently-released memoir, On the Move: A Life, in a new light.
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