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shayla_evans 's review for:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
My sister read this book around 25 years ago and the title always stuck with me. How could it not? Now, I've finally gotten around to reading it myself. This is not my usual genre and I was sometimes out of my element with much of the scientific terminology, but I usually got the concepts. The human mind is amazing and is still a mystery. Since this book was written in the 1980s, I'm sure that much more has been studied and learned, and more medicines developed and tested. The stories are wonderful and varied and made me want to learn more about the brain and how it works. I had no idea that the author of this book was the same one who wrote "Awakenings" which was used for the movie of the same title. Parts of the book reminded me of the movie "Rainman" as well... another movie I enjoyed many years ago.