Oliver Sacks is a famous British neurologist, the author of a number of popular books translated into twenty languages, two of which - “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” and “An Anthropologist on Mars” - became international bestsellers. Oliver Sacks told readers many amazing stories of his patients, and at the end of his life he decided to tell the story of his own life, which amazes the imagination no less than the story of a man who mistook his wife for a hat. The life story of Oliver Sacks is the story of the difficult growing up of an extraordinary boy in the suffocating provincial British atmosphere of the middle of the last century .The story of a young neurologist who made no difference between the concepts of “life” and “science.” The story of a man who boldly confronted the scientific community, put forward bold theories and performed risky, if not eccentric, experiments on himself. The story of one of the most famous neurologists and neuropsychologists of our time - a fearless devotee of science, an extraordinary personality and a convinced humanist.