“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 ...

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.

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 ...

Apropos of nothing but a bowl of jello placed before him, a stifled laugh escapes from Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist, writer and public intellectual. “What are you thinking about?” ...

With his beard, his burliness, his ready smile and his clear, steady, British-accented voice, the physician and writer Oliver Sacks was perhaps the Platonic ideal of the avuncular white male genius.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. A new documentary about Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and best-selling author, will begin streaming on Wednesday. Sacks was a physician and a ...

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 ...

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author known for books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” and "Awakenings," died at age 82 Sunday. Dr. Sacks announced in February that he was ...

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 ...

Famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died of cancer at his home in New York City at 82, a personal assistant to Sacks confirmed to NBC. Sacks wrote several best-settling books on neurology ...

Oliver Sacks, a dear colleague of mine at The New Yorker and in the world of medicine, was an inspiration to me and to countless physicians. A great deal will be said in the coming days about ...

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 ...