United KingdomOliver Sacks is the #44,206 most-subscribed YouTube creator worldwide and #2,609 in United Kingdom, with 11K subscribers and 728.3K total views across 56 videos. Oliver Sacks is known as chemist, neurologist and physician.
Biography
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
Channel description
Celebrating the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks: neurologist and author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and more. 🧠📚
“The poet laureate of medicine.” New York Times
Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.
He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
For more information about the Oliver Sacks Foundation, please visit www.oliversacks.com
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Oliver Sacks | Amphetamines
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Oliver Sacks on face blindness
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Oliver Sacks talks about how taking hallucinogens helped him understand his patients.
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As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing, his legacy remains as relevant as ever.
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Happy 92nd Birthday, Oliver Sacks! Here's a delightful clip from a lecture he gave in 2000.
Frequently asked
- How many subscribers does Oliver Sacks Foundation have?
- 11K subscribers — #44,206 worldwide, #2,609 in United Kingdom.
- What is Oliver Sacks Foundation's real name?
- Oliver Sacks Foundation's real name is Oliver Sacks, born Jul 9, 1933.
- When did Oliver Sacks Foundation start on YouTube?
- The channel was created in Oct 2010.
- What awards has Oliver Sacks Foundation won?
- Recognitions include Bodley Medal, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Emperor Has No Clothes Award.