TY - BOOK AU - Sacks,Oliver TI - Awakenings SN - 9780330320917 (pbk.) : AV - HUY LT U1 - 616.83209 20 PY - 1991/// CY - London PB - Picador KW - Encephalitis KW - Dopa KW - Neurology KW - Case studies N1 - Previous ed.: London: Duckworth, 1973; Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-401) and index N2 - This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive awakening effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug, L-DOPA ER -