Looks at what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist. This work shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be. It is suitable for those who have felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.

Examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people to show that music can calm and organize, torment and heal. This work tells stories that alter our conception of who we are and how we function, and show us an essential part of what it is to be human.

'Phantoms in The Brain' takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world's leading experimental neurologists.

Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals.

Launches us on a journey into the world of the deaf - which the author explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers.

As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , the author uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us.

Oliver Sacks travels once again in search of human diversity, to the South Pacific atoll of Pingelap, where he finds that a high proportion of the population is colourblind and investigates the causes and effects of that condition. This book explores the islands, the people and their case studies.

Presents an account of an English childhood, with a childish passion for science, told from the perspective of one of the most important and humane writers on psychology.

This revised edition of Oliver Sack's book is considerably expanded with additional case histories, new findings and practical information on treatment. A new chapter illustrates colour paintings by migraine patients, and Sacks discusses visual hallucinations or auras.

Glenn Gould was a child prodigy and a musical genius. He was also plagued by lifelong depression, terrified of playing before live audiences and consumed pills by the handful. He died of a stroke at 50. In this biography, the author raises many questions about Gould and his music.

This accessible but rigorous book explores the most human region of the brain, the frontal lobes. It offers a panorama of ideas and advances in cognitive neuroscience, but is also an intellectual memoir, filled with vignettes about the author's early training and his escape from the Soviet Union.

By the author of Seeing Voices , this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks offers his own observations and the patients' reactions.

Oliver Sacks is a neurologist and also a member of the American Fern Society. This is his spellbinding account of his recent trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca. A captivating evocation of a place, its people, its plants and its myriad wonders.