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Oliver Sacks Foundation Now ... he found refuge in motorcycles, powerlifting and, eventually, an addiction to methamphetamine, which he emerged from with the help of psychoanalysis.
“Oliver Sacks adored letters,” she writes in the ... Meanwhile, he was competing in powerlifting competitions, riding his motorcycle all over North America and experimenting with great ...
When the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks was a schoolboy, a teacher noted on his report card: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It was a perceptive comment ...
Nearly 20 years after his breakout role in “Heroes,” Zachary Quinto returns to NBC as a world-class, eccentric doctor in “Brilliant Minds.” The “Star Trek” and “American Horror Story ...
Oliver Sacks, the author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," speaks at Columbia University in 2009. (Chris McGrath / Getty Images) There are those who can write ...
Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and best-selling author who explored the human brain one patient at a time, has died of cancer. He was 82. Sacks was best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His ...
Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, best known for inspiring the Robin Williams-Robert De Niro movie 'Awakenings,' is profiled in the documentary 'Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.' By Stephen Farber ...