Dr. Oliver Sacks appears in the following:
Oliver Sacks
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
What's it like to go inside the mind of a person you admire? A person who inspires you?
Oliver Sacks: A Journey From Where to Where
Friday, October 27, 2017
There’s nothing quite like the sound of someone thinking out loud, struggling to find words and ideas to match what’s in their head.
Remembering Oliver Sacks
Sunday, August 30, 2015
When Dr. Sacks announced a few months ago that he had terminal cancer and wouldn't do any more interviews, we asked him if he'd talk with us one last time. This is that conversation.
From the Archives: Oliver Sacks' Table of Elements
Thursday, August 06, 2015
From the archives: a visit with Oliver Sacks and the elements he's known and loved.
Dr. Sacks Looks Back
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
A final conversation, after more than 30 years of them, with Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Radiolab Live: Tell-Tale Hearts featuring Oliver Sacks
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Highlights from a live Radiolab performance about hearts, driving forces, and the people we love - including a final conversation with Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Radiolab wishes Oliver Sacks a happy birthday.
Hearing Things That Aren't Really There
Monday, November 26, 2012
Hallucinations is the title of Dr. Oliver Sacks' latest book, and in it he presents hundreds of case studies and stories about those who see, hear, feel and even smell things that aren't really there. We talk with Dr. Sacks about the phenomenon of aural hallucinations of phantom voices, music, and sounds -- which, he says, is much more common than most would think, and often isn't related to mental illness.
Oliver Sacks: Visually Interesting
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Oliver Sacks, physician and neurologist, explains the brain and its mysterious malfunctions, all to do with vision.
About Face
Friday, April 01, 2011
Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close, the great artist known for his enormous paintings of...that's right, faces.
Oliver and Chuck--both born with the condition known as Face Blindness--have spent their lives decoding who is saying hello to them. You can sit ...
Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
Monday, January 12, 2009
Stories of love and loss in the name of science.
Choice
Monday, November 17, 2008
We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads, and try to get to the bottom of what really steers our decisions.
Music, the Mind and Autism
Thursday, October 30, 2008
According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in every 150 children has autism and there are no known cures. But music seems to have a particular impact on those who suffer from the disorder. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author of "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain," joins ...
Music and Autism
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks talks about the potential of music to treat autism. And: an arts program designed for autistic children. Later: songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as the frontman of the band Eels, shares his struggle to understand the father he barely knew -- and his influential ...
Earworms
Monday, April 21, 2008
It has happened to you. Some song wriggles its way into your brain and won't leave.
Pop Music
Monday, April 21, 2008
Nightmarish stories of musical hallucinations, songs with the power to transcend language, and the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan.
Tales of Music and the Brain
Monday, October 15, 2007
Dr. Oliver Sacks has been writing about patients with unusual and fascinating case histories since the 1970s. In his new book, Musicophilia, Dr. Sacks explores music and its relationship to the human brain, while introducing new and fascinating characters – from the man who, after being struck by lightning, found ...
Name That Tune
Monday, October 15, 2007
On today’s show, Dr. Oliver Sacks discusses the relationship between music and the human brain. Then, we’ll revisit the history of the Africa-to-America slave trade through the stories of those on the slave ships. Also, an exhibit of art from Africa’s equatorial rainforests. Plus, a new translation of Tolstoy’s War ...
Emergence
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
What happens when there is no leader? We look at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and even our brains.
Memory and Forgetting
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.
