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
0:42
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
4.5K views2 months ago
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
1:53:57
$
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Aug 22, 2023
vudu.com
Dive into the life of the neurologist and author who helped redefine our understanding of the brain. "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" premieres April 9 at 9/8c. #OliverSacksPBS #Documentary #Film | American Masters
1:09
Dive into the life of the neurologist and author who helped redefine our understanding of the brain. "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" premieres April 9 at 9/8c. #OliverSacksPBS #Documentary #Film | American Masters
124.3K viewsMar 25, 2021
FacebookAmerican Masters
Famed neuroscientist Oliver Sacks dies at 82
1:49
Famed neuroscientist Oliver Sacks dies at 82
Aug 30, 2015
CBS News
Oliver Sacks talks about how taking hallucinogens helped him understand his patients. As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing over the next few months we will be sharing clips from the archives. Follow along for more. This footage was shot by @DempseyRice who’s currently working on @animatedfilmoliversacks. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
1:05
Oliver Sacks talks about how taking hallucinogens helped him understand his patients. As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing over the next few months we will be sharing clips from the archives. Follow along for more. This footage was shot by @DempseyRice who’s currently working on @animatedfilmoliversacks. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
58.9K views7 months ago
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
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
0:39
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
5.4K viewsAug 30, 2024
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015 In this clip from a lecture he gave at Vanderbilt University in 1999, he talks about how many different "ways of being" there are. Transcribed here: "There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving. Although one has to talk about normality or mean or average or deviation or standard deviations in a sort of statis
0:45
Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015 In this clip from a lecture he gave at Vanderbilt University in 1999, he talks about how many different "ways of being" there are. Transcribed here: "There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving. Although one has to talk about normality or mean or average or deviation or standard deviations in a sort of statis
6.3K viewsAug 30, 2023
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
2:55
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
8K viewsJan 31, 2023
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
Neurologist Oliver Sacks, best known for inspiring the movie Awakenings, dies at 82
Aug 30, 2015
nationalpostThe Associated Press
1:57
Oliver Sacks, Author and Neurologist, Dies at 82
Aug 30, 2015
WSJKris Maher
0:48
The poet W. H. Auden (born on this day in 1907) was Oliver Sacks’s literary hero and mentor. Auden visited the “Awakenings” patients with Dr. Sacks, and wrote a poem inspired by them. Sacks wrote about their friendship in his autobiography, On the Move. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
4.5K viewsFeb 21, 2020
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
What made physician Oliver Sacks unique? | American Masters
Mar 31, 2021
thirteen.org
2:02
"A vivid portrait of an ebullient, provocative, brilliant man who transformed the practice of medicine and spearheaded the neurodiversity movement." - Science Magazine | Oliver Sacks Foundation
159.2K viewsNov 20, 2020
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
0:32
It’s June and everything is blooming! We’re celebrating the abundance by giving away a copy of Everything In Its Place, which includes an essay by Oliver on the healing power of gardens. He said “As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible.” This PBS NewsHour footage from 1989 shows Oliver Sacks walking through NYBG’s conservatory and talking about how gardens can be both therapeutic and inspiring. In fact, he sai
1.8K viewsJun 6, 2024
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
Oliver Sacks Awakened Us To The Mysteries Of The Brain
Mar 12, 2025
investors.com
0:25
The Everyman’s Library edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is on sale today, with a beautiful new introduction from surgeon and writer Atul Gawande. He says: "[Sacks] captured both the medical and the human drama of illness . . . He would see patients not as collections of deficits but as unique individuals... He captured their experiences, their hopes and fears, their humour and perseverance. It is heroic stuff, and he was well aware of its mythic resonances.” Order your copy here
4.6K viewsOct 3, 2023
FacebookOliver Sacks Foundation
1:59
Oliver Sacks, Casting Light on the Interconnectedness of Life
Aug 30, 2015
NY TimesMichiko Kakutani
'He saw beyond the illnesses into the souls of his patients'
Aug 30, 2015
jpost.com
With months to live, neurologist Oliver Sacks gave a master class on how to die
Sep 22, 2020
timesofisrael.com
1:14:44
Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks
499.6K viewsDec 8, 2014
YouTubeWorld Science Festival
2:44
Dr. Oliver Sacks Dialogues Off The Record
23.1K viewsOct 11, 2012
YouTubeDavid Hoffman
2:41
Oliver Sacks: on Amphetamines
31.9K viewsMay 26, 2015
YouTubeOliver Sacks Foundation
13:30
Watch this Oliver Sacks interview from 1989
171.2K viewsSep 1, 2015
YouTubePBS NewsHour
42:53
The Mind's Eye | Oliver Sacks | Talks at Google
34.3K viewsNov 10, 2011
YouTubeTalks at Google
7:16
Oliver Sacks: A Tale of Awakenings | World Science Festival
108.3K viewsJan 11, 2017
YouTubeWorld Science Festival
1:57:05
Oliver Sacks on Music and Mind
180K viewsSep 24, 2014
YouTubeSOFHeyman
2:38
Awakenings (1990) - The Strangest Dream Scene (4/10) | Movieclips
Trailer
75.8K viewsMar 22, 2017
YouTubeMovieclips
2:52
The Healing Power of Music
7.2K viewsMay 14, 2013
YouTubeWorld Science Festival
1:44:33
Why the Brain Loves Music, Dr. Oliver Sacks, Columbia University
304.3K viewsSep 30, 2018
YouTubeLinus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series
2:21
On The Power of Doing - Oliver Sacks
14.3K viewsJul 25, 2011
YouTubeOliver Sacks Foundation
See more