![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, the celebrated Neurologist studied autism and brain damage and highlighted their functional skills. Later, he achieved more remarkable milestones in life, such as in his other book titled ‘Seeing Voices,’ he revealed how sign language is more than a mode of communication and a foundation for creating distinctive groups. Oliver noticed that consuming L-dopa was a potential cure, and he documented most of the side effects and positive changes in ‘Awakenings’ and published it in 1973. The patients who survived had parkinsonism which afflicted their mobility and speech and made them feel dejected. Another name for the illness is “sleeping sickness,” and its global widespread began in 1917. As reports suggest, the patients were previously affected with encephalitis lethargica, an understudied disease that infected multiple people in the early 1900s. Oliver was a British Neurologist, and the book is more like his memoir of all his experiences while treating patients in a catatonic state for decades. It is an adaptation of the late Oliver Sacks’ eponymous non-fiction book that was adapted into a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Yes, ‘Awakenings’ is based on a true story. ![]()
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