The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, By Olivar Sacks- is a kind of book that you open the first page and can not help but expect something profound.
A movie has been made of adapting this book by Motion Picture and was nominated for Academy Award.
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The man who mistook his wife for a hat is a collection of 24 case studies where patients were diagnosed with various kinds of neurological disorders, related to the damage of the right hemisphere of the brain. The book is around 233 pages and It was first published in 1970.
The patient's disorders were diagnosed through case studies including visual agnosia, tonal agnosia, retrograde amnesia related to Korsavko's syndrome, problems in proprioception, sensory neuropathies, Parkinson's.
If you are not a science student, you may haven't any idea about the above-stated things. So it is preferred to gain some biological knowledge in the background before reading the book.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat refers to insight into the heartaches, loss, perseverance's and also hope of the patients who are presented in this book. This plot makes you appreciate the brain and its mysteries as well as its power.
With such plots and facts mentioned in this book, you are reminded that the most primitive functioning of the brain serves a purpose further than a substantiation of the basic life forces, but is a very necessary component for higher-level analysis and reasoning.
In The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat -the vitality of memories, whether good or bad, feed our human spirit. It is the ability to remember the past, whether recent or remote, that forms our ability to live in the present.
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