When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction and then in New York, where he discovered a long forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions — weightlifting and swimming—also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—Thom Gunn, A.R. Luria, W.H. Auden, Francis Crick — who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer — and of the man who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.

闖過死亡關卡後，他可以嗅出遠方朋友的情緒變化；頂尖的音樂博士，腦中長瘤後，竟然錯把太太當帽子。而這卻是真實的人間故事！人的頭腦，猶如一部魔法織布機，不斷地織出各種人生變化。有時候會因為某種原因，將原本可能潛藏一輩子的能力喚醒。本書收錄了24個腦部受傷患者的故事，作者記錄了在醫療過程中，患者許多讓人無法想像的生命變化。透過本書，我們驚奇的發現，腦中蘊藏的神秘金礦，正等待生而為人的我們去發掘！