Men ought to know that from nothing else but the
             brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports,
             and sorrows, griefs despondency, and lamentations.
             And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire
             wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know
             what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and
             what are good, what are sweet and what are
             unsavory......And by the same organ we become mad
             and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us...
             All these things we endure from the brain when it
             is not healthy... In these ways I am of the
             opinion that the brain exercises the greatest
             --Hippocrates, "On the Sacred Disease"
             "It is human nature to be curious about how we see and
             hear; why some things feel good and others hurt; how we
             move; how we reason, learn, remember, and forget; the nature
             of anger and madness"(Bear, Connors, Paradiso 3). This
             quote, found in my neuroscience textbook, basically sums up
             why we study and write about the brain. The brain has been
             a curiosity to man since the beginning of science. The
             actual term "neuroscience" is as recent as the 1970s, but
             the study of the brain is as old as science itself.
             Evolving over time, the discipline of neuroscience has
             undergone significant changes to become what it is today.
             New findings, new discoveries are always changing what we
             know, or think we know, about the brain. It is with this in
             mind, that I attempt to discuss Oliver Sacks collection of
             Referring to himself as a physician, Oliver Sacks has
             dedicated his entire life to studying the person behind
             neurological deficits. His interest lies not in the disease
             itself, but also in the person-"the suffering, afflicted,
             fighting, human subject-" and he presents these people in
             short narratives collected in The Man who Mistook His Wife
             ...