News & Events
News & Events
Cameras are rolling…
Last week, production began on a new feature film based on Dr. Sacks's essay "The Last Hippie," in An Anthropologist on Mars. Jim Kohlberg is directing the indie film, which [...]
Footnote of the Month: February 2010
An Anthropologist on Mars takes its title from a comment Temple Grandin once made to Dr. Sacks: that, for someone with autism or Asperger's syndrome, trying to figure out subtle [...]
Inspired by Oliver Sacks
Feature Films and Television Series Brilliant Minds Brilliant Minds is a 13-part medical drama from NBC starring Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf. Inspired by Oliver Sacks’s work and case [...]
Footnote of the Month: January 2010
Why don't we all have savant talents? In Musicophilia, Dr. Sacks discusses the experimental use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily inhibit certain brain functions in order to heighten others. [...]
Dr. Sacks to appear on PBS and The Daily Show!
NOVA: Musical Minds now available on DVD. This hour-long program focuses on Dr. Sacks and some of the patients he wrote about in MUSICOPHILIA. Watch Dr. Sacks discuss music with [...]
Good Heavens!
As noted recently in the New York Times, the Committee of Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has approved the naming of asteroid 84928 as “Oliversacks”! Dr. Sacks [...]
Honors for Oliver Sacks
Queen Elizabeth II has named Dr. Sacks a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Dr. Sacks says that, having grown up in London, he is thrilled and honored [...]
Stromatolites!
Several of Dr. Sacks’ unusual interests are featured in David Coleman's article in the New York Times, "In Praise of Early Adapters." Particular attention is given to stromatolites and other [...]
New York Times Migraine Blog
Dr. Sacks’ piece Patterns was posted to the Times Migraine blog last night and has climbed to #3 on the Most Emailed list.
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