Description or summary of the book: Awakenings-which inspired the major motion picture-is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, 'awakening' effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
Estimated reading time (average reader): 29H7M43S
Other categories, genre or collection: Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology, Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology, History Of The Americas
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