Book review: The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales
Author: Oliver W. Sacks Subject: Neurology Publisher: New York: Simon & Schuster Year: 1998 ISBN: 9780684853949 A classic piece in brain science written by renowned late psychologist Oliver Sacks. The book consists of a dozen bizarre clinical cases of brain malfunctioning encountered by Dr Sacks, as illustrated by the book title. While some of these cases are due to congenital defects, some of them are due to head injury and some due to brain tumor or diseases. All in all, I find the most intriguing the case of anterograde amnesia, as manifested by the severely handicapped Jimmie G. in the The Lost Mariner . The stark contrast between his memory deficiency and his intact intellectual ability is fascinating to behold. This reminds me of the iconic patient H.M. as documented in every memory and cognition textbook, the British composer Clive Hearing whose story has been shown on BBC documentary, as well as the fictional character Leonar