NEURODIVERSITY: The Man Who Mistook His Wife and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks wrote the stories of 24 patients and their neurological conditions. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case study of one of his patients who has visual agnosia, a neurological condition that leaves him unable to recognize faces and objects.
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