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In \"The Case of the Colorblind Painter\" an artist learns to adapt to a completely black-and-white world after sustaining trauma to his occipital lobe.\"The Last Hippie\" portrays a man whose ability to form new memories was destroyed by a massive midline brain tumor; he still \"lives\" in the 1960's. \"A Surgeon's Life\" depicts a Canadian surgeon with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome , showing how he is able to live as a respected member of the community and practice surgery despite this disabling condition. \"To See and Not See\" tells the tale of a man in his 50's who is suddenly able to see after being blind since early childhood. In \"The Landscape of His Dreams\" Sacks introduces a painter who , after a serious illness in the 1960's , apparently developed extraordinary and persistent \"waking visions\" of Pontito , his hometown in Italy. For many years he has obsessively painted remarkably accurate scenes of Pontito. \" Prodogies\" and \"An Anthropologist on Mars\" both deal with autism. The first tells of an autistic boy from England who has remarkable skill in visual memory and drawing; the second is about an autistic woman with a Ph. D. in animal science , who teaches at Colorado State University. Page 2 Editor in Chief Art Editor Co-Editors Sandra Bertman , PhD Dustin Brinker Albert Howard Carter , III , PhD Mark Clark , PhD Cortney Davis , BA , MA Carol Donley , PhD , MA Jacalyn Duffin , MD PhD Steven Field , MD Sebastian Galbo Rebecca Garden , PhD Guy Glass , MD , MFA Schuyler Henderson , MD Martha Stoddard Holmes , PhD , MA Joshua Jiang Therese Jones , PhD Martin Kohn , PhD Gretl Lam , MD Barron Lerner , MD , PhD Spencer McClelland Marilyn McEntyre , PhD Tony Miksanek , MD Michael Natter , MD Lois LaCivita Nixon , PhD , MPH , MLitt , MAT David Oshinsky , PhD Richard M. Ratzan Gabriel Redel-Traub , MD Mona Saleh , MD Carol Schilling , PhD Audrey Shafer , MD Maura Spiegel , PhD J. Russell Teagarden , DMH , MA Shawn Thomas Howard Trachtman , MD Delese Wear , PhD Janice Willms , MD , PhD Devon Zander Annotators Author: Amy Stewart An important and challenging aspect of being a scientist is communicating information in a way that is both accurate and engaging , and furthermore disseminating the work to a widespread audience. Oliver Sacks is one of the few scientists who has accomplished this with his chosen subject matter , the brain: he skyrocketed to fame in 1973 with his book Awakenings and has remained a household name with his myriad of publications and various film adaptations. Framing a discussion of the scientific backgrounds of neurological conditions within the context of case studies , Sacks ingeniously weaves together humanity and science in his novels , culminating in a thoughtful and compelling read. Written at the midpoint of his authorial career , An Anthropologist on Mars marks a maturation and expansion of the overarching themes in his narratives that he began to explore ten years prior in his most well-known book , The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. An Anthropologist on Mars details the experiences of seven individuals with neurological disorders ranging from cerebral achromatopsia to Tourette’s syndrome to autism , supplementing descriptions of these disorders , fascinating in their own right , with stories of the manifestation of creativity borne out of these conditions. Image Caption: Left: Oliver Sacks , author of An Anthropologist on Mars2. Right: Six Oliver Sacks books arranged in a collage , including An Anthropologist on Mars3. It is clear from the first chapter that An Anthropologist on Mars will not read like a dry , erudite textbook ; nor will it be exhibitionist , exploiting its subjects as oddities to be gawked at by","cbCaiv8md0NU0hvk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv8md0NU0hvk","pdf",77314,"English","# Chapter-by-chapter focus\n## Mr. I. and cerebral achromatopsia\n## Tourette’s syndrome, autism, and creativity progression","[{\"question\":\"How many clinical stories does An Anthropologist on Mars contain?\",\"answer\":\"The book contains seven clinical stories, each centered on a person with an unusual neurological deficit.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the first chapter?\",\"answer\":\"The first chapter follows an elderly painter, Mr. I., who loses color vision after a car accident and seeks help to diagnose cerebral achromatopsia.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book structure its chapters?\",\"answer\":\"Each chapter works as a self-contained narrative, but there is a progression from earlier chapters shaped by accidents or tumors toward adaptation and thriving.\"}]","An Anthropologist on Mars - Chapter Summary - Brief Overview | PDF",1789195282]