Interview: Oliver Sacks, Author Of 'Hallucinations' : NPR
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The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations — and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.
The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations — and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.
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Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen : NPR
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Oliver Sacks - Freedom From Religion Foundation
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Oliver Sacks, Neurologist and Author Who Explored Music's Impact on Brain, Dies at 82, WQXR Editorial
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What hallucination reveals about our minds
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Oliver Sacks's Best Essays and Interviews - The Atlantic
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Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' : NPR
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Live Ideas: The Worlds of Oliver Sacks by New York Live Arts - Issuu
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, American Masters
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks: 9780307947437
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Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Sacks dead: Famed neurologist and author dies at 82
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Interview: Oliver Sacks, Author Of 'Hallucinations' : NPR
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Oliver Sacks dead: Famed neurologist and author dies at 82
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Watch this Oliver Sacks interview from 1989