Awakenings (movie)
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"Awakenings" is a 1990 American drama film directed by Penny Marshall, based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir of the same name. It stars Robin Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a fictionalized version of Sacks, and Robert De Niro as Leonard Lowe, one of his catatonic patients. The film tells the true story of Sacks's efforts in 1969 to treat catatonic patients who survived the 1917–28 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, using the experimental drug L-DOPA. The movie explores themes of human connection, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of medical breakthroughs.
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he was behind the movie Awakenings etc etc
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"Andrew Huberman mentions Oliver Sacks and then refers to the movie "Awakenings" as something he was behind, linking it to Sacks's work on the mind."
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