October 2005
Oliver Sacks is Clinical Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, N.Y, and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the NYU School of medicine. He is a prolific writer, perhaps best known for his 1985 collection of case histories, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. His work deals with the ways people survive and adapt to different neurological diseases and conditions.