Oliver Sacks
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- Full Name
- Oliver W. Sacks
- Date of Birth
- 06/09/1933 (75 years old)
- Undergrad
- Oxford University
- Graduate
- Oxford University
- Neighborhood
- West Village
- Website
- www.oliversacks.com
- Filed Under
- Health & Medicine
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Celebrity neurologist Oliver Sacks is known for the non-fiction books that detail his cerebrally irregular patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (featuring the most famous account of visual agnosia ever put to paper) and An Anthropologist on Mars. Now a professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical neurology at Columbia, he most recently published Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
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