From: <[email protected]> Subject: Oliver Sacks celebrates his 80th birthday Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:20:03 +0000 Inline-Images: image001.png; image002jpg; image003.gif; image004.gif; image005.gif; image006.gif; image007.gif If you're having trouble viewing this message. click to view in your default browser WEB of STORIES PRESS RELEASE Web of Stones Middlesex House 34-42 Cleveland Street London WIT 4LB 7+44(0)20 7323 0323 preseoebolstones cam www.weholstones cam Aweborstones www facebook.comMetofstories OLIVER SACKS London. UK I 8 July 2013 For immediate release As world-renowned British neurologist Oliver Sacks celebrates his 80th birthday on 9 July, he remains one of the most prolific names in his field. Web of Stories is proud to present a range of insightful recordings as Sacks recounts memories of his life and work. The British doctor, referred to as ?the poet laureate of medicine? by The New York Times, is best known for his collections of neurological case histories. Awakenings (1973), his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early 20th century, inspired a 1990 Academy Award-nominated film. Sacks went on to author many more books including the best-selling The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (1985) and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007). You can discover more about the man behind such groundbreaking work by watching over 300 recordings of him sharing memories, which include having had WH Auden as a mentor: 'fie wrote a lovely review of Migraine and I felt, in a way, that this was the first time that a... someone of grand powers had taken notice of me' He also opens up about his nearly fatal experience with drugs: 'When I came to New York I was dangerously drug. addicted. Perhaps addiction isn't... isn't the tight word, but I would take huge doses of amphetamine every weekend, and these were potentially fatal doses. I