Oliver Sacks plays piano and talks about how it feels to return to Beth Abraham, the chronic-care hospital where Sacks worked in the mid-1960s as a young neurologist and where the events of his book Awakenings took place. This clip is from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, an intimate and deeply moving film that explores the life and legacy of the legendary neurologist who transformed how we understand the mind, identity, and what it means to be human. The New York Academy of Sciences, HHMI Tangled Ba
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Life on Instagram: "A really good doctor never gives up hope of curing his patients 🥹 Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. The film is based on the 1972 non-fiction book “Awakenings” by Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist. The story revolves around Dr. Malcolm Sayer (played by Robin Williams), a dedicated and unorthodox neurologist who becomes interested in a group of catatonic patients at a psychiatric hospital. Dr. Sa
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Robin Williams plays a character based on Oliver Sacks in the 1990 film Awakenings. The film tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (based on Oliver) who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa in 1969. He administers it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Robert De Niro plays one of his patients. Celebrate the Awakenings opera by watching a live screening of the newly digitized 1990 film Awakenings with Robin Williams and R
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On this day in 2015, we lost Dr. Oliver Sacks, a brilliant mind and deeply empathetic man. This clip from an old doc on Awakenings shows how fascinated he was by the human condition, and how much he advocated for the treatment of each patient as an individual person rather than a pathology. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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