Periodicals

[ Listed Chronologically ]


S[acks], O.W. Doen From Macaulay. The Prickly Pear, no. 1 (Nov. 1950) l. [4].

Sacks, Oliver. Noses. Seed, no. 6 (1954) p. [7]. [prose] [Oxford]

Sacks, Oliver. Pantheon. Seed, no. 6 (1954) pp. [16-17]. [prose] [Oxford]

Sacks, Oliver. [review of A Textbook of Physiology, edited by John F. Fulton] The British Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 9, no. 8 (Aug. 1957) p. 19. [Harrow, Middlesex, England]

Sacks, Oliver. [review of Textbook of Human Anatomy, by Boyd, Le Gros Clark, Hamilton, Yoffey Zuckerman and the late A.B. Appleton. The British Journal of Physiotherapy, vol. 9, no. 9 (Sept. 1957) p. 18.

Herrmann, Christian, Jr.; Aguilar, Mary Jane; and Sacks, Oliver W. Hereditary Photomyoclonus Associated with Diabetes Mellitus, Deafness, Nephropathy, and Cerebral Dysfunction. Neurology, vol. 14, no. 3 (March 1964) pp. 212-221.

Sacks, Oliver; Brown, W. Jann; and Aguilar, Mary Jane. Spongy Degeneration of White Matter: Canavan's Sclerosis. Neurology, vol. 15, no. 2 (Feb. 1965) pp. 165-171.

Sacks, Oliver W. and Brown, W. Jann. The Axonal Dystrophies. Bulletin of the Los Angeles Neurological Society, vol. 31, no. 1 (Jan. 1965) pp. 35-41.

Sacks, O.W.; Aguilar, M.J.; and Brown, W.J. Hallervorden-Spatz Disease: Its Pathogenesis And Place Among The Axonal Dystrophies. Acta Neuropathologica, vol. 6 (1966) pp. 164-174.

Sacks, Oliver W. and Herzog, Ivan N. The Rationale of Rectal Biopsy. Neurology, vol. 17 (1967) pp. 292-293.

Elkind, Arthur H.; Friedman, Arnold P.; Bachman, Arnold; Siegelman, Stanley S.; and Sacks, Oliver W. Silent Retroperitioneal Fibrosis Associated with Methysergide Therapy. Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 206, no. 5 (Oct. 28, 1968) pp. 1041-1044.

Spataro, J. and Sacks, O.W. Oligodendroglioma with Remote Metastases: Case Report. Journal of Neurosurgery, vol. 28, no. 4 (1968) pp. 373-379.

Sacks, Oliver W. L-Dopa for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy [letter to the editor]. Lancet, (Sept. 13, 1969) pp. 591-592.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. East Village Other, vol. 5, no. 27 (June 2, 1970) p. 16. [New York]

Sacks, O.W.; Messeloff, C.; Schartz, W.; Goldfarb, A.; and Kohl, M. Effects of L-Dopa in Patients With Dementia [letter to the editor]. Lancet (June 6, 1970) p. 1231.

Sacks, Oliver W. and Kohl, M. Incontinent Nostalgia Induced by L-Dopa [letter to the editor]. Lancet (June 27, 1970) p. 1394.

Sacks, O.W. and Kohl, M. L-Dopa and Oculogyric Crises [letter to the editor]. Lancet (July 25, 1970) pp. 215-216.

Sacks, Oliver W.; Messeloff, Charles R.; and Schwartz, Walter F. Long-Term Effects of Levodopa in the Severely Disabled Patient [letter to the editor]. Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 213, no. 13 (Sept. 28, 1970) p. 2270.

Sacks, O.W.; Ross, S.J.; DePaola, D.P.; and Kohl, M.S. Abnormal Mouth-Movements and Oral Damage Associated with L-Dopa Treatment. Annals of Dentistry, vol. 29, no. 4 (Winter 1970) pp. 130-144.

Sacks, Oliver W. Parkinsonism – a So-Called New Disease [letter to the editor]. British Medical Journal, vol. 4 (Oct. 9, 1971) p. 111.

Sacks, Oliver. Parkinson's Disease & L-Dopa. Beth Abraham Speaks (Winter 1971-72) pp. 8-9. [Bronx, NY]

Sacks, Oliver W.; Kohl, Marjorie S.; Messeloff, Charles R.; and Schwartz, Walter F. Effects of Levodopa in Parkinsonian Patients with Dementia. Neurology, vol. 22, no. 5 (May 1972) pp. 516-519.

Sacks, Oliver. The Great Awakening. The Listener, (Oct. 26, 1972)

Sacks, Oliver. The Mind of A.R. Luria. The Listener, vol. 89, no. 2309 (June 28, 1973) pp. 870-873.

Sacks, Oliver. Alexander Luria [letter to the editor]. The Listener, (Aug. 9, 1973).

Sacks, Oliver. Alexander Luria [letter to the editor]. The Listener, (Nov. 1, 1973).

Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings [letter to the editor]. British Clinical Journal, vol. 2, no. 4 (April 1974) p. 159.

Sacks, O.W. Communication and Community Among Mental Defectives. Bronx State Hospital Journal, vol. 2 (1974) pp. 113-120. [I have not seen a copy of this one]

Sacks, Oliver. The Nature of Consciousness. Harper's Magazine, vol. 251, no. 1507 (December 1975), p. 5.

[Sacks, Oliver]. Obituary: Professor A.R. Luria: Pioneer Brain Specialist. The Times (Sept. 5, 1977)

Sacks, O.W. and Carolan, P.C. EEG Findings in Post-Encephalitic and Tourettic Patients. Proceedings of Metropolitan EEG Society, (1979) [New York].

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 3 (July 1979) p. 4.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 4 (Oct. 1980)

Sacks, Oliver. Witty Ticcy Ray. London Review of Books, vol. 3, no. 5 (March 19 – April 1, 1981) pp. 3-5.

Sacks, Oliver. Ray – A Case History. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, (April 1981) pp. 9-10.

Sacks, Oliver. The Leg. London Review of Books, vol. 4, no. 11 (June 17-30, 1982) pp. 3-5.

Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. London Review of Books (May 19 – June 2, 1983) pp. 3-5.

Sacks, Oliver. The Origin of "Awakenings." British Medical Journal, vol. 287 (Dec. 24-31, 1983) pp. 1968-69.

Sacks, Oliver. The Lost Mariner. New York Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 2 (Feb. 16, 1984) pp. 14-19.

Sacks, Oliver. "Put Away" [review of Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain by Michael Donnelly]. British Medical Journal, vol. 288 (Feb. 25, 1984) p. 635.

Sacks, Oliver. Musical Ears. London Review of Books, vol. 6, no. 8 (May 3-16, 1984) p. 7.

Sacks, Oliver W. and Schwartz, Walter. Clinical Curio: An Original Juvenile Diabetic. British Medical Journal (April 28, 1984)

Sacks, Oliver. The Bull on the Mountain. New York Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 11 (June 28, 1984) pp. 23, 26-30.

Sacks, Oliver W. Clinical Curio: Phantom Finger. British Medical Journal (July 14, 1984)

Sacks, Oliver. Hands. New York Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 17 (Nov. 8, 1984) p. 15

Sacks, Oliver. The Twins. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 3 (Feb. 28, 1985) pp. 16-20.

Sacks, Oliver. The Autist Artist. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 7 (April 25, 1985) pp. 17-21.

Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Tilted. Sciences, vol. 25, no. 3 (May-June 1985) pp. 16-19.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 10 (June 13, 1985) p. 37.

Sacks, Oliver. Excesses. Granta, no. 16 (Summer 1985) pp. 7-22.

Sacks, Oliver. The President's Speech. New York Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 13 (Aug. 15, 1985) p. 29.

Sacks, Oliver. Mysteries of the Deaf. New York Review of Books, vol. 33, no. 5 (March 27, 1986) pp. 23-33.

Sacks, Oliver. 'Mysteries of the Deaf': An Exchange [letter to the editor]. New York Review of Books, vol. 33, no. 16 (March 27, 1986) p. 69.

Sacks, Oliver. Bound Together in Fantasy and Crime [review of The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace]. New York Times Book Review (Oct. 19, 1986) pp. 3, 40.

Sacks, Oliver. Tics. New York Review of Books, vol. 34, no. 1 (Jan. 29, 1987) pp. 37-41.

Sacks, Oliver. Insider's Story [review of Ivan: Living with Parkinson's Disease, by I. Vaughan]. British Medical Journal, vol. 294 [issue no. 6570] (Feb. 21, 1987) p. 503.

Sacks, Oliver. What It's Like to Be a Child [review of The Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott, edited by F. Robert Rodman; and Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis, by D.W. Winnicott]. New York Times Book Review (May 24, 1987) pp. 3, 19, 21.

Sacks, Oliver and Wasserman, Robert. The Case of the Colorblind Painter. New York Review of Books, vol. 34, no. 18 (Nov. 19, 1987) pp. 25-34.

Sacks, Oliver. Response to "The deconstruction of self." Journal of Contemplative Psychotherapy, vol. 4 (1987).

Sacks, Oliver. The Revolution of the Deaf. New York Review of Books, vol. 35, no. 9 (June 2, 1988) pp. 23-28.

Sacks, Oliver. The Divine Curse. Life (Sept. 1988) pp. 94-102.

Sacks, Oliver. Travel Happy (1961). Antaeus, no. 61 (Autumn 1988) pp. 391-406.

Sacks, O.; Wasserman, R.L.; Zeki, S.; and Siegel, R.M. Sudden Color-Blindness of Cerebral Origin. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts (1988?)

Sacks, Oliver. Canada: Pause (1960). Antaeus, no. 62 (Spring 1989) pp. 192-200.

Sacks, Oliver. Tourette Syndrome in Japan. Tourette Syndrome Association Newsletter, vol. 17, no. 3 (Fall 1989)

Sacks, Oliver. [Best books of 1989] American Health (Jan.-Feb. 1990)

Sacks, Oliver. Alzheimer's and Creativity [letter to the editor]. Art & Antiques (Jan. 1990)

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor] Scientific American (March 1990) p. 12.

Sacks, Oliver. Neurology and the Soul. New York Review of Books, vol. 37, no. 18 (Nov. 22, 1990) pp. 44-50.

Sacks, Oliver. Neurological Dreams. MD, vol. 35, no. 2 (Feb. 1991) pp. 29-32. [reprinted in Barrett, Deirdre (ed.). Trauma and Dreams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. 212-216.

Sacks, Oliver. Forsaking the Mentally Ill. New York Times (Feb. 13, 1991)

Sacks, Oliver. The 'Dark, Paradoxical Gift' [a review of Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull]. New York Review of Books (April 11, 1991) pp. 7-8.

Sacks, Oliver and Tomaino, Connie. Music Therapy is Vital in Neurological Cases [letter to the editor]. New York Times (June 4, 1991)

Sacks, Oliver. The 'Dark, Paradoxical Gift' [a review of Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull]. Neurology, no. 41 (Sept. 1991) p. 1532-3. [reprinted from New York Review of Books (April 11, 1991)]

Sacks, Oliver and Tomaino, Concetta M. Music and Neurological Disorder. International Journal of Arts Medicine, vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 1991) pp. 10-12.

Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings Reconsidered. Dolentium Hominum: Journal of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, [Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference: The Human Mind] (Nov. 15-17, 1990) vol. 6, no. 1 [issue 16] (1991) pp. 101-105.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to Dear Abby column]. New York Daily News (Dec. 29, 1991)

Sacks, Oliver. Phantom Limbs [letter to the editor]. New York Review of Books, vol. 39, no. 3 (Jan. 30, 1992) pp. 45-46.

Sacks, Oliver. Clinical Curios: Phantom Faces. British Medical Journal, vol. 304 (Feb. 8, 1992) p. 364.

Sacks, Oliver. A Neurologist's Notebook: A Surgeon's Life. New Yorker, vol. 68, no. 4 (March 16, 1992) pp. 85-94.

Sacks, Oliver. The Last Hippie. New York Review of Books, vol. 39, no. 6 (March 26, 1992) pp. 53-62.

Sacks, Oliver. A Neurologist's Notebook: The Landscape of His Dreams. New Yorker, vol. 68, no. 23 (July 27, 1992) pp. 56-66.

Sacks, Oliver. Defining Consciousness [letter to the editor]. Nature, vol. 358, issue no. 6388 (Aug. 20, 1992) p. 618.

S., O. [letter to the editor]. Ray & Tom [personal newsletter, 117 E. 11th St., NYC] (ca. Dec. 17, 1992) p. [3].

Sacks, Oliver. Tourette's Syndrome and Creativity. British Medical Journal, vol. 305, issue no. 6868 (Dec. 19-26, 1992) pp. 1515-1516.

Sacks, Oliver. Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf. Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability, no. 26 (Winter/Spring 1993) pp. 7-13. [excerpts from 1989 book Seeing Voices]

Sacks, Oliver. [review of Mental Lives: Case Studies in Cognition, edited by Ruth Campbell]. Neurology, no. 43 (Jan. 1993) p. 240.

Sacks, Oliver. Narrative and Medicine. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, vol. 60, no. 2 (March 1993) pp. 127-131.

Sacks, Oliver. Making Up the Mind [ a review of Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman]. New York Review of Books, vol. 11, no. 7 (April 8, 1993) pp. 42-49.

Sacks, Oliver. To See and Not See: A Neurologist's Notebook. New Yorker (May 10, 1993) pp. 59-73.

Sacks, Oliver. Remembering South Kensington. Discover, vol. 14, no. 11 (Nov. 1993) pp. 78-80.

Sacks, Oliver. The Poet of Chemistry [review of Humphry Davy: Science and Power]. New York Review of Books, vol. 40, no. 18 (Nov. 4, 1993) pp. 50-56.

Sacks, Oliver W. [letter to the editor]. Science, vol. 262 (Nov. 5, 1993) p. 826.

Sacks, Oliver. Looking Back. Voices: Newsletter of the Residents of Beth Abraham Hospital, vol. 2, no. 4 (July 1999) p. 8.

Sacks, Oliver. Medicine's Brave New World. We Magazine, vol. 3, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1999) pp. 26-27.

Sacks, Oliver. Ways to Avoid Medical Mistakes [letter to the editor]. New York Times (Dec. 12, 1999)

Sacks, Oliver. Brilliant Light. New Yorker, vol. 75, no. 39 (Dec. 20, 1999) pp. 56-73.

Sacks, Oliver. Social "Mentalizing" Abilities in Mental Patients [letter to the editor]. Science, vol. 287, no. 5451 (Jan. 14, 2000) p. 234.

Sacks, Oliver. Second Opinion [letter to the editor]. We Magazine, vol. 4, no. 3 (May-June 2000) p. 10.

Sacks, Oliver. Weighing the Neurological Complexities of Long-term Levodopa Use [letter to the editor]. Archives of Neurology, vol. 57 (Oct. 2000) p. 1531.

Sacks, Oliver. Leaving Nirvana. New York Review of Books, vol. 48, no. 5 (March 29, 2001) pp. 4-5.

Sacks, Oliver. A Compulsive Collecting Behavior Following an A-com Aneurysmal Rupture [letter to the editor]. Neurology, no. 56 (April 2001) p. 1118.

Sacks, Oliver. Inside the Executive Brain. New York Review of Books, vol. 48, no. 7 (April 26, 2001) pp. 46-48.

Sacks, Oliver. Henry Cavendish: An Early Case of Asperger’s Syndrome? Neurology, vol. 57, no. 7 (Oct. 9, 2001) p. 1347.

Sacks, Oliver. Let Us Count the Ways. New York Times Magazine (Nov. 11, 2001) p. 109.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Science News, vol. 160 (Dec. 15, 2001) p. 371.

Sacks, Oliver. A Pocket Spectroscope. Chemical Heritage, vol. 19, no. 4 (Winter 2001-2002)

Sacks, Oliver. Remembering the Lake Jeff. Towne Crier (Feb. 19-March 11, 2002) p. 24.

Cox, Paul Alan and Sacks, Oliver W. Cycad Neurotoxins, Consumption of Flying Foxes, and ALS-PDC Disease in Guam. Neurology, no. 58 (March 2002) pp. 956-959.

Sacks, Oliver. When Music Heals. Parade Magazine (March 31, 2002) pp. 4-5.

Sacks, Oliver. How I Write. The Writer, vol. 115, no. 4 (April 2002) pp. 66.

Sacks, Oliver. The Case of Anna H. New Yorker, vol. 78, no. 30 (Oct. 7, 2002) pp. 62-73.

Sacks, Oliver. Bringing Scientists To Life [review of Eurekas and Euphorias by Walter Gratzer]. Nature, vol. 419, no. 6909 (Oct. 24, 2002) p. 726.

Sacks, Oliver. Lives Remembered. London Times (ca. Nov. 2002)

Sacks, Oliver. Anybody Out There? Natural History, vol. 111, no. 9 (Nov. 2002) pp. 38-40.

Sacks, Oliver. Aubrey – and Atavism. International Herald Tribune (Nov. 22, 2002) Ha’aretz Week’s End supplement, p. B1.

Sacks, Oliver. [response to a letter to the editor]. American Scholar, vol. 71, no. 1 (Winter 2002) p. 157.

Steele, John C.; Caparros-Lefebvre, Dominique; Lees, Andrew J.; and Sacks, Oliver W. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy And Its Relation To Pacific Foci Of The Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex And Guadeloupean Parkinson. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, vol. 9 (2002) pp. 39-54.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Nature, vol. 423, no. 6937 (May 15, 2003) p. 221.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. New York Times (June 17, 2003) p. F4.

Sacks, Oliver. The Mind’s Eye. New Yorker, vol. 79, no. 20 (July 28, 2003) pp. 48-59.

Sacks, Oliver. Gallium. Chemical and Enginering News, vol. 81, no. 36 (Sept. 8, 2003) p. 88.

Sacks, Oliver. The Elephant's Gait. Omnivore, prototype issue (Autumn 2003) pp. 43-46.

Lipson, Scott E.; Sacks, Oliver; and Devinsky, Orrin. Selective Emotional Detachment from Framily after Right Temporal Lobectomy. Epilepsy and Behavior, no. 4 (2003) pp. 340-341.

Sacks, Oliver. In the River of Consciousness. New York Review of Books, vol. 51, no. 1 (Jan. 15, 2004) pp. 41-44.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Neurology, vol. 62, no. 2 (Jan. 27, 2004) p. 342.

Sacks, Oliver. [letter to the editor]. Science News, vol. 165, no. 6 (Feb. 7, 2004) p. 95.

Sacks, Oliver. Greetings From the Island of Stability. New York Times, (Feb. 8, 2004) Op-Ed page

Sacks, Oliver. [letter]. New York Review of Books, vol. 51, no. 6 (April 8, 2004) pp. 84-85.

Sacks, Oliver. Speed, The New Yorker, August 23, 2004, pp. 60-69.

Sacks, Oliver. On Memory, The Threepenny Review, volume 100, Winter 2004.

Murch, SJ, Cox, PA, Banack SA, Steele, JC and Sacks OW. Occurrence of B-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) in ALS/PDC patients from Guam. Acta Neurol Scand 2004: 110: 267-269.

Sacks, Oliver and Melanie Shulman. Steroid Dementia: An Overlooked Diagnosis? Neurology, 2005; 64:707-709 February 2005.

Sacks, Oliver. Remembering Francis Crick, The New York Review of Books, March 24, 2005, 34-36.

Sacks, Oliver. Me and My Hybrid, The New York Times Op-Ed, March 25, 2005.

Sacks, Oliver. Remembering Thom Gunn, The Threepenny Review, June 2005.

Sacks, Oliver. Recalled to Life, The New Yorker, October 31, 2005.

Sacks, Oliver and Joel A. Vilensky. Waking to a New Flu Threat, The New York Times Op-Ed, November 16, 2005.

Sacks, Oliver. Hawaiian Tooth, Alimentum, vol. 1, winter 2006.

Sacks, Oliver. Stereo Sue, The New Yorker, June 19, 2006, pp. 64-73.

Sacks, Oliver and Ralph M. Siegel. Seeing is believing as brain reveals its adaptability, Nature letter to the editor, vol. 441, no. 7097 (June 29, 2006) p. 1048.

Sacks, Oliver. The Power of Music, Brain, vol. 129, no. 10 (October 2006), pp. 2528-2532.

Sacks, Oliver. Replacing Resources. New Scientist letter to the editor, 23 June 2007, p. 22.

Sacks, Oliver. A Bolt From the Blue, The New Yorker, July 23, 2007, pp. 38-42.

Sacks, Oliver. Botanists on Park, The New Yorker, August 13, 2007, pp. 25-26.