Awakenings
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Awakenings—which inspired the major motion picture—is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory Shares nonfiction, psychology, science -
The Private Life of the Brain Shares science, nonfiction, psychology -
Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath Shares nonfiction, science, psychology -
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology Shares nonfiction, psychology, science
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
