![]() ![]() Over the years, Sacks wrote many other books highlighting other interesting case studies. That allowed him to see some of the patients who slept for much of the day but were wide awake at night.īut the patients all slipped back to their old condition over time despite multiple attempts to reverse the side effects. "Such a global awakening or animation was in contradiction to concepts of neuroanatomy in the 1960s, a neuroanatomy that saw the motor, the intellectual, and the affective in quite separate and noncommunicating compartments of the brain."Īt the time, Sacks moved into an apartment in a house next door to the hospital. ![]() "When I gave L-dopa to these patients, their 'awakenings' were not only physical but intellectual, perceptual, emotional too," Sacks recalled in 2015. The results were at first nearly all happy. Sacks prescribed the patients large doses of the drug L-dopa, a medicine that had just started to be used for people suffering from Parkinson's disease. ![]()
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