Oliver Sacks obituary

Neurologist and writer best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and AwakeningsWith his absorbing and accessible yet profound accounts of neurological cases and conditions, Oliver Sacks, who has died aged 82, brought the clinical science of the brain to life for countless readers. Although his first book, Migraine (1970), marked a relatively conventional beginning, Sacks’s decision to write about a neurological disorder with complex psychological precipitants and conc