In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of...

The author follows his friend, a Colorado neurologist, as he treats a variety of patients with conditions including multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, chronic pain, language disorders, migraine headaches, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, brain tumors, and accidents.