Hallucinations: We all have them, say neurologists, but clearly politicians shouldn’t try to sell them as policies
“Hearing Things? Seeing Things? Many of Us Do?” was an Oliver Sacks’ article in the New York Times this week helping launch his book, “Hallucinations.” It points out that such phenomena are experienced by nearly all of us at some time in our lives – though we tend to keep that secret. Sacks is the much-acclaimed author, practitioner and professor of neurology and psychiatry, who has written 12 books regarding patients’ experiences with neurological disorders. His most well-known books: “Awakening” (made into a Oscar-nominated film, starring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams), “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” and “The Last Hippie,” also made into a film. He presently serves as both clinical professor of neurology and consulting neurologist at the center of the epilepsy at the New York University School of Medicine.