Oliver Sacks is a well-known British neurologist and neuropsychologist, the author of a number of popular books translated into twenty languages, two of which “The Man Who Took His Wife for a Hat” and “Anthropologist on Mars” have become international bestsellers. The Man , who took his wife by the hat" - book, written by Oliver Sachs in 1971 and has since endured about ten reprints in English only not to mention the many translations, These are the stories of modern people. CM trying to overcome serious and unusual mental disorders and struggling for survival in conditions Totally Unthinkable for Healthy People , And about the mystics of the past , Obsessed with visions , which modern science confidently diagnoses as a manifestation of severe neuroses . The strange, unfathomable relationship between the brain and consciousness Sax explains is accessible, lively, and interesting.