Awakenings

By: Oliver Sacks

Psychology

awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after world war i. frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when dr. oliver sacks gave them the then-new drug l-dopa, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect....