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EXPLAINED: Oliver sacks | Rare Historical Photos

1,000,000 people across the globe suddenly became prisoners in their own bodies. But the part about how it ended is even stranger

Awake but frozen for forty years – your mind screaming while your body refuses to move.

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Writing is all about discipline, love, luck and endurance – and I sure know about endurance

My ‘writing day’ is inevitably taken up by the exigencies of family life, leaving spare nights and weekends to write. It’s heady but painful business

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Netflix is losing this powerful film with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams — stream it before it's too late

Get ready to say goodbye to Harry Bosch

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Music As Medicine by Daniel Levitin review – musician, heal thyself

In this fascinating book, the neuroscientist makes a strong case for the therapeutic force of music, describing ways in which it can be a beneficial part of recovery for patients

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Seven Deadly Sins by Guy Leschziner review – the biology of human frailty

A look at wrath, gluttony and the rest from a medical perspective offers valuable insights – but is disease a good guide to normal functioning?

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Letters by Oliver Sacks review – valuable insight into a curious mind

From loving letters to his parents expressing early anxieties to later exchanges with scientific heavyweights, this collection of correspondence only cements Sacks’s legacy as a man of great compassion

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Letters by Oliver Sacks review – science, sex and motorcycles

The kaleidoscopic world and polymathic interests of a great neurologist brought to life in his correspondence

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Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor's shoes in NBC's 'Brilliant Minds'

Zachry Quinto is back on TV on Monday in a medical drama

The Independent UK

Autism ally Steve Silberman dead at 66

Silberman, author of "Neurotribes," has long advocated for autism and neurodiversity rights

Salon

Nine Minds by Daniel Tammet review – a new language for neurodiversity

A celebration of the gifts and talents of autistic people refutes the idea that autism and empathy cannot coexist

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Brilliant Minds: next episode, cast and everything we know about the Zachary Quinto medical drama

Zachary Quinto plays a character inspired by the real-life neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks. Here's everything we know about Brilliant Minds.

WhatToWatch

Three New Shows on NBC’s Fall Schedule

New series include ‘Brilliant Minds’, inspired by Oliver Sacks, and ‘St. Denis Medical’, a mockumentary about downtrodden hospital

Broadcasting & Cable

Why do some people have perfect pitch?

Only 1 in 10,000 people can recognize musical notes on the spot. Why?

LiveScience

Rishi Sunak has ripped up decades of cross-party consensus on climate change

The acclaimed 1990 film Awakenings tells the story of a neurologist who discovers a drug which rouses catatonic patients from decades of “sleep”. It’s a true story, based on Oliver Sacks’ 1973 memoir of the same name.

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The Ghan train crosses which continent? The Saturday quiz

From a TV hoax to The Bell Jar, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

Evening Standard

Moby on his new album, wedding singers and criticism: ‘Why would I hand my wellbeing over to a bot army?’

Moby’s new album Resound NYC reimagines some of his most famous songs

Salon

Pitt shares struggle with face blindness

"It's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face," Pitt said in an interview

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Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97

The director’s landmark achievements include a nine-hour Mahabharata, putting Shakespeare on trapezes and directing Olivier, Gielgud and Scofield at the RSC

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Scouting for Girls: Fashion’s Darkest Secret review – terrible tales of sexual abuse in the modelling industry

Grooming, conditioning, coercive control: nowadays we have words for fashion’s horrific treatment of young women in bygone decades. This sober expose puts the atrocities in the spotlight

Asharq Al-Awsat

Music Hits Heart, Improves Life Quality

“Music has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation,” wrote the late neurologist Oliver Sacks.

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