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1. Oliver Sacks

   Neurologist Oliver Sacks tells stories of people who manage to navigate the world and communicate, despite losing what many consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the ability to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and to see. In The Mind’s Eye he considers the fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think?

   http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/oct/27/oliver-sacks/

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2. New Yorker Out Loud: Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness

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3. Interview: Oliver Sacks, Author Of ‘Hallucinations’ - NPR

   The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations — and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.

   http://www.npr.org/2012/11/06/164360724/oliver-sacks-exploring-how-hallucinations-happen

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