Author Topic: Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain’s Quirks, Dies at 82 (Read 2159 times)

veggiewolf · « **on:** September 04, 2015, 12:14:32 pm »

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Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain’s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” using his patients’ disorders as starting points for eloquent meditations on consciousness and the human condition, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.

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A thousand of bread, a thousand of beer, a thousand of every good thing! May He Ascend, and may those who love Him be comforted.

RandallS · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2015, 02:55:20 pm »

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A thousand of bread, a thousand of beer, a thousand of every good thing! May He Ascend, and may those who love Him be comforted.

I never knew he wrote so many books.

Sefiru · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2015, 06:31:22 pm »

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A thousand of bread, a thousand of beer, a thousand of every good thing! May He Ascend, and may those who love Him be comforted.

I has a sad.