Awakenings

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Oliver Sacks: Awakenings (Vintage Books)

408 pages

English language

Published by Vintage Books.

OCLC Number:
41096302

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Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism.

29 editions

Subjects

  • Case studies
  • Complications
  • Epidemic encephalitis
  • Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease
  • Therapeutic use
  • Dopa