![]() ![]() The brain-damaged Hare Krishna who believed he had reached enlightenment. In his 1996 book An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks tells the story of a 25-year-old named Greg, a Hare Krishna who had developed an enormous and destructive tumor, which eventually caused him to go blind. Here, Science of Us takes a look at some of Sacks’s most fascinating case studies. ![]() He most often did this by focusing on individual patient stories, creating in his books and essays moving portraits of the human beings behind often-bizarre neurological conditions. With his expressive and often lyrical writing, Sacks managed to explain the nuances of neurology in a way that proved captivating to a wide audience of scientists and nonscientists alike. On Sunday, the famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died of cancer, specifically of a melanoma that had spread to his liver. ![]()
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