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Excesses Oliver Sacks

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This book is divided into four simple sections titled and in order: “Losses,” Excesses,” “Transports,” and “The World of the Simple.” Within each section, Oliver Sacks explains his clinical stories and shows how physiological and physiological disorders can have many behavioral consequences. For example, within the “Losses” section, the audience will meet a man who has amnesia – goes back in time to the year 1945; another story is a woman that cannot comprehend her own body; A man who constantly feels as if he is tilting through his life as the Leaning Tower of Pisa; and last, but not least the title, “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.” In the “Excesses” section, Oliver Sacks gives an account of Ticcy Ray, who has spasm-like movements
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