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Oliver Sacks, “SEEING VOICES: A Journey into the World of the Deaf”, 1989, PART THREE (3).

Here I present: Oliver Sacks, “SEEING VOICES: A Journey into the World of the Deaf”, 1989, PART THREE (3).   INTRODUCTION. Oliver Sacks, “SEEING VOICES: Journey into the World of the Deaf”, 1989 was about deafness by the neurologist Oliver Sacks.  The deaf community of a particular language gets over their soundless barrier using hand … Continue reading Oliver Sacks, “SEEING VOICES: A Journey into the World of the Deaf”, 1989, PART THREE (3).

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Oliver Sacks, “Hallucinations”, 2012.

 



Oliver Sacks, “Island of the Colorblind”, 1997, PART TWO (II) was the topic of an earlier blog post.


Here I present: Oliver Sacks, “Hallucinations”, 2012.

INTRODUCTION.

Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for case history writing. Here hallucinations, such as Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) are presented.  The book consists of sixteen (16) chapters listed BELOW .

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1. Introduction.

2. Silent Multitudes: Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

3. The Prisoner’s Cinema: Sensory Deprivation.

4. A Few Nanograms of Wine: Hallucinatory Smells.

5. Hearing Things.

6. The Illusions of Parkinsonism.

7. Altered States.

8. Patterns: Visual Migraines.

9. The “Sacred” Disease.

10. Bisected: Hallucinations in the Half-Field.

11. Delirious.

12. On the Threshold of Sleep.

13. Narcolepsy and Night Hags.

14. The Haunted Mind.

15. Doppelgängers: Hallucinating Oneself.

16. Phantoms, Shadows, and Sensory Ghosts.

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Oliver Sacks, “Island of the Colorblind”, 1997, PART TWO (II).

Oliver Sacks, ”Island of the Colorblind”, 1997 was the topic of an earlier blog post.   Abraham Kierszbaum & Laura Tres, “Histology & Cell Biology”, 5th edn, 2019 was the topic of an earlier blog post. Here I present: Oliver Sacks, “Island of the Colorblind”, 1997, PART TWO (II). INTRODUCTION. Oliver Sacks, “The Island of … Continue reading Oliver Sacks, “Island of the Colorblind”, 1997, PART TWO (II).