Hallucinations (book)

For other uses, see Hallucinations (disambiguation).

Hallucinations

Author	Oliver Sacks
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Neurology, psychology
Publisher	Knopf/Picador, a division of Random House
Publication date	6 November 2012
Pages	352 (First edition)
ISBN	978-0307957245
Preceded by	The Mind's Eye (2010)

Hallucinations is a 2012 book written by the neurologist Oliver Sacks. In Hallucinations, Sacks recounts stories of hallucinations and other mind-altering episodes of both his patients and himself and uses them in an attempt to elucidate certain features and structures of the brain^[1] including his own migraine headaches.^[2]

Awards and honors

2014 Wellcome Book Prize shortlist.^[3]^[4]

References

↑ The Week - Review of reviews: Books, pp. 19
↑ "More about Hallucinations", oliversacks.com. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
↑ "Andrew Motion announces shortlist for the Wellcome Book Prize 2014". Wellcome Trust. 25 February 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
↑ GrrlScientist (26 February 2014). "Wellcome Trust's Book Prize 2014 shortlist announced". The Guardian. Retrieved February 26, 2014.

Oliver Sacks

Books	Migraine (1970) Awakenings (1973) A Leg to Stand On (1984) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985) Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf (1989) An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) The Island of the Colorblind (1997) Uncle Tungsten (2001) Oaxaca Journal (2002) Musicophilia (2007) The Mind's Eye (2010) Hallucinations (2012) On the Move: A Life (2015) Gratitude (2015)

Adaptations	At First Sight Awakenings The Man Who: a theatrical research The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat The Music Never Stopped

Related	84928 Oliversacks

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