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Oliver Sacks: Wat hallucinatie over onze geest vertelt

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Neuroloog en auteur Oliver Sacks vestigt onze aandacht op het Syndroom van Charles Bonnett -- wanneer visueel gehandicapten lucide hallucinaties ervaren. Hij beschrijft de ervaringen van zijn patiënten met hartverwarmend detail en leidt ons door de biologie van dit weinig bekend fenomeen.

Since Awakenings first stormed the bestseller lists (and the silver screen), Oliver Sacks has become an unlikely household name, single-handedly inventing the genre of neurological anthropology. Full bio »

Translated into Dutch by Annemieke Vanlaer
Reviewed by Els De Keyser
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