Episode 9 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - a podcast by Chris Castiglione | Co-Founder of One Month. Faculty at Columbia University

In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks tells 24 short-stories (all true) of some of his patients. The first chapter chronicles the story of one of Sacks' patients with visual agnosia (face-blindness) who literally mistakes his wife for a hat.

The book is split into four sections: each section dealing with a particular aspect of brain function such as deficits, excesses, and altered perceptions.

In this episode of On books we cover three Oliver Sacks books: Awakenings, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (the story), Musicophilia. As well as an interview with Princeton University Neuroscience Professor Nathaniel Daw. 

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