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  1. Oliver Sacks _ The Man Who Mistook His Wife

    What could we do? What should we do? 'There are no prescriptions,' Luria wrote, 'in a case like this. Do whatever your ingenuity and your heart suggest. There is little or no hope of any recovery in his memory. But a man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral being - matters of which neuropsychology cannot speak. And it is here, beyond the realm of an impersonal psychology, that you may find ways to touch him, and change him. {...} Neuropsychologically, there is little or nothing you can do; but in the realm of the Individual, there may be much you can do.
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  2. Oliver Sacks _ Migraine

    Presiding over the entire attack there will be, in du Bois Reymond's words, "a general feeling of disorder," which may be experienced in either physical or emotional terms, and tax or elude the patient's powers of description.
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  3. Oliver Sacks _ An Anthropologist on Mars:

    Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... {I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy}
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