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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 PRESS STORIES 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 NOTES FOR EDITORS ABOUT WEB OF STORIES London. UK I 8 July 2013 Everyone has a story to tell. Over time many For immediate release stories become forgotten. but now Web of Stones offers members of the public the chance to tell their stories for future generations to enjoy. The project is built on the belief that we As world-renowned British neurologist Oliver Sacks celebrates all have wonderful stones to share. and have his 80th birthday on 9 July, he remains one of the most prolific family and friends whose tales we would kke to hear. names in his field. Web of Stories is proud to present a range of insightful recordings as Sacks recounts memories of his life Web of Stones began as an archive of life stones told by some of the great scientists. and work. writers and artists cf our bme. As the number c4 stones grew, 4 became obvious that some were on related topics and that a web was slowly The British doctor, referred to as ?the He also opens up about his nearly fatal being created of connected stories. poet laureate of medicine? by The New experience with drugs: 'When I came to York Times, is best known for his New York I was dangerously drug. We welcome anyone to come and talk about collections of neurological case histories. addicted. Perhaps addiction isn't... isn't virtually anything they like. Just like our famous Awakenings (1973), his book about a the tight word, but I would take huge speakers. we hope you will record your stories for others to enjoy. group of patients who had survived the doses of amphetamine every weekend, great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of and these were potentially fatal doses. I the early 20th century, inspired a 1990 sort of specialised in overdoses... I had CONTACT Academy Award-nominated film. Sacks a sudden sober moment on New Year's For more information on Web of Stories or any went on to author many more books Eve in '65; I looked at myself in the other video interview wrth Web of Stories please including the best-selling The Man who mirror and I said, "Oliver, you will not contact the Press Desk on +44(0)20 7323 0323 or Mistook his Wife for a Hat (1985) and see another New Year's Day unless you res S? :H: tones.corn Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the get help. There has to be some Brain (2007). intervention": Should you wish to refer to Web c4 Stones and our video interviews please ensure that a link to You can discover more about the man No recordings of Sacks would be Web of Stones is clearly viewable on your site. behind such groundbreaking work by complete without his memories of the watching over 300 recordings of him pivotal work which led him to write sharing memories, which include having Awakenings: 'These were people who had WH Auden as a mentor: 'fie wrote a had been almost inanimate for 30 or 40 lovely review of Migraine and I felt, in a years, who had burst into explosive life.' way, that this was the first time that a... someone of grand powers had taken All of these recordings, and countless notice ofme' others, can be watched with fully searchable transcripts. All Web of EFTA01143478 Despite his unquestionable success, he Stories videos are easy to share with admits to struggling at university. He also friends and colleagues, and may be talks of his 'disastrous' year in embedded into personal blogs and neuropathology and neurochemistry:'! websites. screwed the oil immersion objective of the microscope through several priceless slides. I lost a sample which I'd spent 10 To find out more click here ) months preparing, a sample of myelin from nerve sheaths, and, finally, l got some food in the ultracentrifuge... basically they threw me out. They said, 'Sacks, you are a menace. Why don?t you go and see patients - you'll do less harm."And this was sort of the ignoble beginning of a clinical career.' O2013 Web of Stories I vcrov.weborstones corn You C O Ea EFTA01143479