Oliver Sacks on Manic-Depression.
posted on Sep 7, 2008 - View this thread

Musicophilia. Metafilter's own digaman interviews Oliver Sacks on his forthcoming book and a lifetime's worth of loving music and studying its effects on the human mind.
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - View this thread

The Abyss. Oliver Sacks writes about Clive Wearing (recently discussed here). [Via MindHacks.]
posted on Sep 19, 2007 - View this thread

A Blog entry about a guy who melted a kilo of Iridium in New Jersey with Oliver Sacks. There are also pictures and movies of the 200,000 eV electron beam furnace in action.  Theo Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research was there too (the pictures are all his). For any laymen who may have wondered in, Iridium is not a phone company, it is a precious metal that shares an element group with the likes of Platinum and Rhodium.
posted on Aug 31, 2004 - View this thread

2003 Reith Lectures. Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, talks about a number of fascinating neurological disorders and the insights they provide into mental functioning.
posted on May 24, 2003 - View this thread