While he built a career playing villains, gangsters, and grumpy old men, De Niro's most unexpected role was very different.

A new documentary, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, chronicles the late neurologist's efforts to understand perception, memory and consciousness. Sacks spoke to Fresh Air in 2012.

The late author's correspondence shows a restless intellect roving far beyond what we saw in his books 'Awakenings' and 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.' ...

Oliver Sacks, the acclaimed British-American neurologist and author, has died of cancer at the age of 82.

An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman have adapted “Awakenings,” drawing both on source material and personal experience.

Oliver Sacks, a dear colleague of mine at The New Yorker and in the world of medicine, was an inspiration to me and to countless physicians. A great deal will be said in the coming days about ...

When he was a young doctor on the neurology ward at UCLA, Oliver Sacks was every bit as unconventional as he seemed in the bestselling books he later wrote about treating patients who were ...

"Brilliant Minds" introduces Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf, a neurologist whose unique life and skillset is loosely drawn from the acclaimed Oliver Sacks -- down to the complex relationships ...

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and popular author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and other books, died Sunday of cancer. Sacks, 82, wrote in a Times essay in February that he ...

Why Oliver Sacks was so ambivalent about becoming a best-selling author by Julia Belluz Updated Aug 30, 2015, 4:14 AM PDT ...

Sacks died at his home in New York City after suffering from a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver, according to his longtime assistant, Kate Edgar. Sacks, a professor of neurology who tau… ...