Learn More About Neurologist Oliver Sacks' Greatest Works

- Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the intricacies of the brain and wrote eloquently about them in books such as "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," died on Sunday at the age of 82, his personal assistant said. "He definitely wrote to the very end," said Edgar, noting Sacks in his final days never stopped penning a legacy that will be published posthumously and may include "several books." NYU School of Medicine, where Sacks taught, said in a statement mourning his death that his "breakthrough work" in the fields of neurology and neuro psychiatry led to important understandings in these fields. His best-known work was the 1985 book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," a collection of case studies of people whose brains had misfired, including lost memories, gross perception problems and Tourette's.