British-American neurologist who wrote compassionate, literary accounts of neurological cases — making the science of the brain accessible and showing the human richness of apparently bizarre conditions.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: case studies of neurological disorders as windows into the nature of identity, perception, and consciousness. Awakenings: the reanimation of catatonic patients with L-DOPA — made into a film with Robin Williams. Musicophilia: music and the brain. An Anthropologist on Mars: a term he borrowed from Temple Grandin for her subjective experience of being autistic.
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