Over a decade earlier, he wrote a book about the Awakenings true story, recounting the life stories of the victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, 'awakening' effect. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. This disorder was the basis for his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, published in 1985. Awakenings -which inspired the major motion picture- is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Sacks suffered from prosopagnosia, also known as “face blindness,” a cognitive disorder of face perception that affects the ability to recognize familiar faces including one’s own face. Sacks makes a brilliant point when talking about the treatment of his schizophrenic brother: medicine should not merely be about treating symptoms, but also. Sayer is based on Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who wrote various best-selling books recounting case studies of people with neurological disorders, including himself. As detailed in Sacks' memoir, the drug and experiments shown in the movie are actually real, and despite being a fictional story, Awakenings is a historic medical experiment drama like Them (although not a horror).ĭr. He runs a trial on patient Leonard Lowe (De Niro), who completely “awakens” and starts to show major improvements, but the experiments soon come across some obstacles that threaten the life quality of the patients who were just starting to deal with a new life in a new time.
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