Books like Everything in Its Place by Oliver Sacks

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

Oliver Sacks explores the many faces of hallucination, weaving patient stories and his own psychedelic encounters to reveal how these visions illuminate brain function, culture, and the human experience.

Explores the groundbreaking science of neuroplasticity, showing how the brain can recover from injury, learn new skills, and even rewire itself to overcome long‑standing mental limits.

Oliver Sacks’s memoir traces his restless journey from teenage motorcycle adventures to early neurology practice, revealing how his passions for motion and the mind shaped a remarkable career as a physician and writer.

Oliver Sacks weaves intimate case studies and personal anecdotes to explore how the brain perceives, interprets, and adapts to the world of sight, revealing the astonishing resilience of human cognition.

Oliver Sacks' collection of seven portraits of extraordinary neurological patients.

Uncle Tungsten is an intimate biography of neurologist Oliver Sacks, tracing his childhood fascination with chemistry and the scientific mentors that shaped his curious mind.

The story of neuroscience

An adventurous road trip by a young journalist and a pathologist in search of Einstein's brain.

291 pages : 22 cm

A curated collection of candid interviews with neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, revealing insights into his life, work, and passion for the mysteries of the brain.

In the second half of the 19th century, Paris became an international center for neurological studies largely because of Jean-Martin Charcot and his Salpetriere School. Charcot was named Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System at the University of Paris in 1882, and thus helped institutionalize neurology as a medical specialty. By then he had already published widely and had assembled a team of research specialists and students who approached the study of the nervous system through the celebrated methode anatomo-clinique that correlated specific neurological signs with discrete lesions in the central nervous system. Pushing beyond the bounds of anatomical study, Charcot went on to study hysteria, attracting both scientific and social notoriety. His career was marked by several contrasting themes: science and art, physician and experimentalist, wealth and poverty, republicanism and conservatism.