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1. 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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2. Live From The NYPL: Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations

   The Robert B. Silvers Lecture. Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks examines how the normal brain, if deprived of perceptual input, may generate illusory sensations—as with the visual hallucinations of the blind, or the musical hallucinations of the deaf.

   http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=5843

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