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Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain’s Quirks, Dies at 82

By Gregory Cowles — 2015

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain’s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” using his patients’ disorders as starting points for eloquent meditations on consciousness and the human condition, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.

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