News & Events
News & Events
The Last Hippie and the Grateful Dead
Dr. Sacks's essay "The Last Hippie" is the basis for the new feature film, The Music Never Stopped, directed by Jim Kohlberg and starring J. K. Simmons, Lou Taylor Pucci, Cara Seymour and [...]
Music, Metals, and Learning
The Mind’s Eye is available now in English, German, Dutch, and Portuguese (Brazil), with more translations on the way. Dr. Sacks discusses the book, and many other topics, on his [...]
Footnote of the Month: January 2011
What are the “minor metals,” so-called? They are metals not traded on the London Metal Exchange, but they nonetheless have a wide range of uses essential to modern life. Some [...]
Wrapping up 2010
Season's Greetings from the Sacks office! We hope your holidays are full of peaceful moments, firelight (see Dr. Sacks's piece about his love of fire), and, of course, music (see his tribute [...]
Giving Thanks for Great Readers!
The Mind's Eye is a New York Times Editor’s Choice pick this week. Okay, so Keith Richards’ autobiography is number one, but we’re number two! Thank you, New York Times [...]
The Mind’s Eye is now available!
October 26, 2010 The Mind's Eye launches today!** In hardcover, large type, e-book, and audio editions. Check out our new YouTube channel for video clips of Dr. Sacks talking about his [...]
The Mind’s Eye book tour
It's only a few more weeks until Dr. Sacks’s new book, The Mind’s Eye, is published in hardcover, large print, audiobook and e-book formats—in the United States, Australia, Brasil, the [...]
Gotta Dance!
In Musicophilia, Dr. Sacks writes about music and its therapeutic effects for movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and Tourette’s syndrome. His Awakenings patients (who had an extremely rare and severe form of parkinsonism) [...]
Footnote of the Month: August 2010
Bravo to the Mark Morris Dance Group for their pioneering program bringing music, and dance, to people with Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Sacks first saw the power of music in his [...]
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