Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Celebrating Dr. Oliver Sacks: best-selling author and neurologist.
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
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.”
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Here’s a clip from a lecture he gave at Emory University in 2000 in which he talks about the periodic table (and fails to correctly utilize the technology of “transparencies”!)
July 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here’s a clip from a lecture he gave at Emory University in 2000 in which he talks about the periodic table (and fails to correctly utilize the technology of “transparencies”!)