Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Celebrating Dr. Oliver Sacks: best-selling author and neurologist.
We are excited to share the latest international cover of LETTERS by Oliver Sacks, now available in Italian from Adelphi Edizioni. Please share with any of your followers who may wish to read the Italian version. Copies can be purchased here: www.adelphi.it/libro/978884...
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing, we’ll be sharing clips of people talking about how Oliver Sacks has impacted them and the world every week for the next few months. This clip of Robert Krulwich is from Ric Burns’ documentary, “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.”
September 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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.

Footage shot by Dempsey Rice who’s working on The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks.
September 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We’re excited to share that Brilliant Minds is back by popular acclaim! Season two of the @NBC drama based on Dr. Sacks’s life and work, and starring Zachary Quinto, debuts on September 22. (You still have time to catch up on season one streaming on Peacock!) #BrilliantMinds
September 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Happy Star Trek day! Oliver Sacks was a big ST fan and named one of the nurses in LEG after Hikaru Sulu, played by the iconic George Takei.
September 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy Birthday to the Science Show, and congratulations, Robyn Williams, on this impressive milestone! Over its 50-year history, The Science Show has covered stories spanning the full expanse of scientific endeavour. radiotoday.com.au/abc-radio-na...
ABC Radio National's The Science Show celebrates 50 years on air
On Saturday 30 August 1975, ABC Radio National broadcast its very first episode of The Science Show, live from the 13th Pacific Science Congress in
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August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today is Oliver Sacks’s birthday. He loved to celebrate birthdays by their corresponding element on the periodic table, and today would be his 92nd, or uraniumth, birthday!
July 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Join me on June 11 to learn about a fabulous new book and a wonderful writer. If you've loved Oliver Sacks, you'll be excited to meet Pria Anand.

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You're Invited: BLR BookTalk on "The Mind Electric"! 🧠 Our next BookTalk features Pria Anand, BLR author and neurologist, who just published her first book, The Mind Electric.

🗓️Details: Online, June 11 at 7pm EDT

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/belle... @danielleofri.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We are absolutely thrilled to bits that Dr. Oliver Wolf and the team at Bronx General Hospital will soon return to NBC — Brilliant Minds is bringing back the drama and heart for Season 2. The hit series is based on the life and work of Oliver Sacks.

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Zachary Quinto Returning for Brilliant Minds Season 2 on NBC: Details
Zachary Quinto is returning to NBC for Brilliant Minds Season 2. Read on to learn more about the hospital drama's renewal.
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May 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We recently came across this adorable photo of a young Oliver standing proudly in front of some tulips, somewhere in London. He went on to write: "As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible."
May 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Do you remember where you first heard about Oliver Sacks? Perhaps Science Friday or Radiolab? Morning Edition? A Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross?

Read about Oliver's experiences with public media, and how you can help support it before it's gone: www.oliversacks.com/support-publ...
Support Public Media Before It's Gone - Oliver Sacks | Official Website of Author, Neurologist & Foundation
Do you remember where you first heard about Oliver Sacks? Chances are pretty good it was on public television or radio. Perhaps on Science Friday or Radiolab? Morning Edition? A Fresh Air interview wi...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We're celebrating J.S. Bach’s 340th birthday today with this photo of Oliver Sacks at his piano. He had a lifelong love of Bach's music and in Uncle Tungsten recalls being told that when asked at five years old what his favorite things in the world were, he answered "smoked salmon and Bach."
March 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We love this photo of Oliver Sacks with the great Robin Williams. Robin played Oliver in the 1990 film Awakenings and the two of them became close friends. Williams credited his role in “Awakenings” as a gift, as it allowed him to meet Sacks and delve into the workings of the human brain.
March 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We're excited to share that The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is part of The Nonfiction Hotlist, a selection of 24 films that have extraordinary creative potential and that need support to move forward. The feature documentary, directed and produced by Dempsey Rice, was chosen from 640 applications
March 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Today we're celebrating one of the many women who inspired Oliver Sacks, his favorite "Auntie Len," Helena Landau. He describes in Uncle Tungsten and On the Move his deep attachment to his aunt, and how she taught him about botany and the mysteries of the Fibonacci sequence, among other things. 1/4
March 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today is World Epilepsy Day, a day focused on raising awareness and reducing stigma epilepsy, which affects around 50 million people worldwide.

Oliver Sacks wrote an entire chapter dedicated to epilepsy in “Hallucinations”. Get your copy here: www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks...
February 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM