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- National Humanities Center
The William and Ida Friday Center
Thursday, November 13 at 7:00pm - Duke Institute for Brain Scien...
Page Auditorium
Wednesday, November 12 at 6:00pm - Writers at Rutgers Reading Series
Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpos...
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Little Theatre, Queens Campus
Monday, October 6 at 4:30pm
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- Great Oliver Sacks Interview on the Huffington Post! 2:41pm Sep 26
- A Still Restless Mind at Age 75 12:48pm Sep 25
- New Videos! 9:17am Sep 24
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Don't miss the NOVA episode "Musical Minds," based on Musicophilia and airing June 30, 2009, on PBS.
Watch a video clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEE5YC6LW
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Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Throughout his career Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and acclaimed author has encountered myriad patients who are struggling to cope with debilitating medical conditions. ...
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Register here for the event:
https://dnbweb1.blackbaud.com/OPXREPHIL/
Oliver Sacks, M.D., F.R.C.P., is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and has been designated Columbia... University’s first University Artist. He is the author of ten books, including "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," "An Anthropologist on Mars," and "Awakenings," which inspired both a Hollywood film and a play by Harold Pinter. His essays and case studies from the far borderlands of neurological experience describe patients struggling to live with and adapt to conditions ranging from Tourette’s syndrome to autism, Parkinson’s disease, musical hallucination, epilepsy, phantom limb syndrome, schizophrenia, retardation, and Alzheimer’s. His most recent book, "Musicophilia," deals with music and the brain.
The New York Times has referred to Dr. Sacks as "the poet laureate of medicine," and his work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His essays regularly appear in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, as well as various medical journals. In 2002 Sacks was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University, which recognizes the “Scientist as Poet.” He is an honorary fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities, including, the Catholic University of Peru, the Karolinska Institute, Georgetown, Bard, Gallaudet, Tufts, Oxford, and the Watson School at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is currently working on a book about vision and the brain.
Oliver Sacks appears courtesy of the National Humanities Center’s three-year initiative Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities (ASC). To learn more about the ASC initiative, visit http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required, as seating is limited. Please register for reserved seating below.
Thursday Evening with Oliver Sacks
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 13th
Location:The William and Ida Friday Center
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks Free and open to the public
Oliver Sacks introduced by Philip Furmanski
Time:8:00PM Thursday, October 9th
Location:Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks Free and open to the public
Oliver Sacks introduced by Philip Furmanski
Time:8:00PM Thursday, October 9th
Location:Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks Free and open to the public
Oliver Sacks introduced by Philip Furmanski
Time:8:00PM Thursday, October 9th
Location:Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Register for the event here:
http://new.stjohns.edu/academics/ev_aca_
Issues Affecting America: Responsible Citizenship Fall 2008
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, remind us of our first date or lift us out of depression when nothing else can. But the pow...er of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does — humans are a musical species.
Best-selling author Dr. Oliver Sacks’ helps us understand music’s power. His compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think about the human experience and our own brains. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people — from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams Syndrome who are hyper-musical from birth; or from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds — for everything but music.
In 1966, Dr. Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care facility where he encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen states, unable to initiate movement. Dr. Sacks recognized these patients as survivors of the great pandemic of sleeping sickness that swept the world from
1916 – 1927; he treated them with a then-experimental drug, L-dopa, which brought them back to life. They became the subjects of his book Awakenings, which later inspired a play by Harold Pinter A Kind of Alaska and the Oscar-nominated feature film Awakenings with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Musicophilia, on The New York Times bestseller List, was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The Washington Post and the editors of Amazon.com.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Time:4:30PM Monday, October 6th
Location:Little Theatre, Queens Campus
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Register for the event here:
http://new.stjohns.edu/academics/ev_aca_
Issues Affecting America: Responsible Citizenship Fall 2008
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, remind us of our first date or lift us out of depression when nothing else can. But the pow...er of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does — humans are a musical species.
Best-selling author Dr. Oliver Sacks’ helps us understand music’s power. His compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think about the human experience and our own brains. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people — from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams Syndrome who are hyper-musical from birth; or from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds — for everything but music.
In 1966, Dr. Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care facility where he encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen states, unable to initiate movement. Dr. Sacks recognized these patients as survivors of the great pandemic of sleeping sickness that swept the world from
1916 – 1927; he treated them with a then-experimental drug, L-dopa, which brought them back to life. They became the subjects of his book Awakenings, which later inspired a play by Harold Pinter A Kind of Alaska and the Oscar-nominated feature film Awakenings with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Musicophilia, on The New York Times bestseller List, was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The Washington Post and the editors of Amazon.com.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Time:4:30PM Monday, October 6th
Location:Little Theatre, Queens Campus
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Register for the event here:
http://new.stjohns.edu/academics/ev_aca_
Issues Affecting America: Responsible Citizenship Fall 2008
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, remind us of our first date or lift us out of depression when nothing else can. But the pow...er of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does — humans are a musical species.
Best-selling author Dr. Oliver Sacks’ helps us understand music’s power. His compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think about the human experience and our own brains. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people — from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams Syndrome who are hyper-musical from birth; or from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds — for everything but music.
In 1966, Dr. Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care facility where he encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen states, unable to initiate movement. Dr. Sacks recognized these patients as survivors of the great pandemic of sleeping sickness that swept the world from
1916 – 1927; he treated them with a then-experimental drug, L-dopa, which brought them back to life. They became the subjects of his book Awakenings, which later inspired a play by Harold Pinter A Kind of Alaska and the Oscar-nominated feature film Awakenings with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Musicophilia, on The New York Times bestseller List, was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The Washington Post and the editors of Amazon.com.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Time:4:30PM Monday, October 6th
Location:Little Theatre, Queens Campus
RECENT ACTIVITY
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks discussed A feature on Oliver Sacks in The Wall Street Journal on the Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks discussion board.
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks discussed New Oliver Sacks Videos on the Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks discussion board.
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks edited their Website and Company Overview.
