The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

A bestseller when it was first published in 1985, this is Oliver Sackss first collection of patients case histories, exploring both their neurological disorders and the strategies they adopted to cope with them. The 24 cases include a man with a special form of visual agnosia, patients with Tourettes syndrome, and the 'lost mariner', a former sailor with no recent memory, isolated in a single moment of being.