Hallucinations / Oliver Sacks.
By: Sacks, Oliver W
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TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012Edition: 1st American ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and index.Description: xiv, 326 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0307957241; 9780307957245.Subject(s): Hallucinations and illusions | Cognition disorders | Perceptual disordersDDC classification: 616.89 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 616.89 Sa147 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284001002765 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and index.
Silent multitudes: Charles Bonnet Syndrome -- The prisoner's cinema: sensory deprivation -- A few nanograms of wine: hallucinatory smells -- Hearing things -- The illusions of Parkinsonism -- Altered states -- Patterns: visual migraines -- The "sacred" disease -- Bisected: hallucinations in the half-field -- Delirious -- On the threshold of sleep -- Narcolepsy and night hags -- The haunted mind -- Doppelgängers: hallucinating oneself -- Phantoms, shadows, and sensory ghosts.
An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations. Includes the disorientations of sleep and intoxication, manifestations of injury and illness, etc.
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