Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Letters, a collection of just a small portion of Oliver Sacks’s correspondence, runs past 700 pages. The life of the world-famous neurologist and author ...

There are those who can write, and those who can’t not write. Oliver Sacks fell into the latter category. A neurologist by trade, Sacks was insatiably curious and wrote ceaselessly and joyfully ...

When Oliver Sacks died in 2015, the world lost a polymathic scientist, a man of great energy and infinite curiosity. The physician and author of “Awakenings” (1973), “The Man Who Mistook His ...

Mr. Hayes is the author of the memoir “Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me” and was Dr. Sacks’s partner in the last six years of his life. The Oliver Sacks that most of the world ...

Nearly 20 years after his breakout role in “Heroes,” Zachary Quinto returns to NBC as a world-class, eccentric doctor in “Brilliant Minds.” The “Star Trek” and “American Horror Story ...

Tamberla Perry and Ashleigh LaThrop co-star. Quinto stars as a surrogate Oliver Sacks-esque physician in the upcoming NBC drama series from Greg Berlanti. The “American Horror Story” staple ...

What do you do when your own observations contradict common beliefs or entrenched dogma? Do you dismiss your observations as biased and flawed, or do you question authority? This was the question ...

A long-gestating medical drama that’s inspired by the late neurologist Oliver Sacks has been handed a series order at NBC. NBC has given a series order to Dr. Wolf, which follows revolutionary ...

Oliver Sacks, however, has a way of writing about his areas of lifelong interest — they include libraries, neurological disorders, botany and the history of science — that never fails to ...

Michael lived until 2006; his death linked to his heavy smoking in later years. Though Oliver Sacks is celebrated for his vast knowledge and clinical skills, he was not able to effectively treat ...