464 pages
English language
Published by Vintage.
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
4 stars
(1 review)
Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism.
Subjects
- Case studies
- Complications
- Epidemic encephalitis
- Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease
- Therapeutic use
- Dopa