He once stated that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe". Sacks was awarded a CBE for services to medicine in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
#OLIVER SACKS AMERICAN MASTERS SERIES#
He and his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain were the subject of " Musical Minds," an episode of the PBS series Nova. In addition to the information content, the beauty of his writing style is especially treasured by many of his readers. His books include a wealth of narrative detail about his experiences with his patients and his own experiences, and how patients and he coped with their conditions, often illuminating how the normal brain deals with perception, memory, and individuality. His writings have been featured in a wide range of media The New York Times called him a " poet laureate of contemporary medicine," and "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century".
He also published hundreds of articles (both peer-reviewed scientific articles and articles for a general audience), not only about neurological disorders but also insightful book reviews and articles about the history of science, natural history, and nature. His numerous other best-selling books were mostly collections of case studies of people, including himself, with neurological disorders. His treatment of those patients became the basis of his 1973 book Awakenings, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 1990, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. After a fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he served as neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital's chronic-care facility in the Bronx, where he worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica, who had been unable to move on their own for decades. He then interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology and neuropathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1960, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Physician, professor, author, neurologist This event is presented by The WNET Group and 92nd Street Y in collaboration with PBS stations GPB, MPT, NMPBS, South Florida PBS, WCNY, WFSU, WHUT, WQLN, WVIA, and WXXI.Non-fiction books about his psychiatric and neurological patients Blanca Valdovinos, Director, Spanish Language Neurology Clinic, University of Rochester Medical Center moderated by Jenna Flanagan, Host, MetroFocus, The WNET Group. Įnjoy highlights from the film, followed by a conversation about the path-breaking neurologist featuring Ric Burns, Director, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Kate Edgar, Executive Director, The Oliver Sacks Foundation Robert Krulwich, Host Emeritus, Public Radio's RadioLab and Dr.
What followed was a remarkable and candid conversation, the seed for the upcoming documentary, American Masters - Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. One month later, he sat down with director Ric Burns for a series of filmed interviews about his life and work. In January 2015, writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that he had a rare form of cancer and had only a few months to live.
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