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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a book that was written in 1985 by neurologist Oliver Sacks. In this book, Sacks describes the case histories of some of the patients he treats.
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In the patients that Oliver Sacks treats, there is a revelation that brain dysfunction has direct impact on the physical body of an individual. Sacks (3) asserts that this has been demonstrated in a number of ways with studies ...
... with a “warm sense.” There are moreover enhanced powers of concrete imagery and memory, described as Nature’s compensation for defectiveness in the conceptual and abstract. These cases can be observed in The Twins and in Jose (Sacks, 80).
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