Sacks, Oliver W. <br/><br/>
Awakenings 
/ Oliver Sacks 
 - 1st HarperPerennial ed 
 - New York  : HarperPerennial  , 1990. 
 - xxxix, 408 p., [8] p. of plates  : ill.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1973. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-401) and index. 
<br/><br/> Awakenings --which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060973681 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90004914 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Encephalitic Parkinson's disease----Case studies<br/>Encephalitis----Complications----Case studies<br/>Dopa----Therapeutic use----Case studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC382  / .S23 1990 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.8 SAC