Oliver Sacks, famed neurologist and author, will speak Thursday, Feb. 1, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the Basic Medical Sciences Building, rm. 303, on UNM North Campus. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Sacks is the author of several books, including Awakenings, which details his discovery in the 1960s of chronic care patients in a New York facility who survived the great pandemic of sleepy sickness in frozen animation. Sacks used an experimental drug to bring them out of their state.
He is best known for his 1985 collection of case histories from the far borderlands of neurological experience, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in which he describes patients struggling to live with conditions ranging from Tourette's Syndrome to autism, parkinsonism, musical hallucination, phantom limb syndrome, schizophrenia, retardation and Alzheimer's disease.
Media Contact: Luke Frank, (505) 272-3679; e-mail: lfrank@salud.unm.edu
Posted by scarr at January 29, 2007 01:07 PM