number of people's interest in the country and titled the man who mistook his wife for a hat and dr sacks welcome very much to conversations treasure to be your own neurologist and trainer always i wonder perhaps you could explain for myself in the cable audience the field of want to find out exactly what's the matter this within the system and what you can do about it but your equally concerned with the effect of this on the equally sensitive and knowledgeable about things and not to me and the chemistry of the nervous system but also to all the things that make a life and make a world doesn't individual there would be overlapping with concerns of psychiatry  part of the patients that you've written about and shared with the greater society your book the man who mistook his wife for have introduced us to those of us who are in a sort of normal realms of understanding realms of perception that are are  are interesting and pathos in many cases numerous in many cases it's an interesting realm that most of us are not aware of and wanted to bring very beautifully on i mean it's an interesting realm of different consciousness in that we normally are charming intelligent man and this but this makes one think about memory in general yes and how much one's own identity and continuity and one sense of self depends on memory  experimental physiology and experiments on your wallet but i think that with very accurate vivid in one way sometimes almost poetic description yes indeed of  things are those are saying it we're coming to understand it much more scientifically and also for me say so you have come to understand not only within the scientific basis but also with the tremendous sensitivity to what it really means in terms of people who are in that most rigorous scientific description my my own background which you often before i sort of came into made to some rather slowly i mean my first interest was in mathematics and physics and the world the world you know this was a simple woman with no with not much education and no no great gift for language but the matter couldn't be more powerfully put accurately put more you give us sort of a broad brush stroke understanding of what neurological disorders and types of disorders in some sort of an idea how many different kinds of disorders how can we classify them just in a broad general kind of way it whole neurology is concerned with with examining disability i think that it shouldn't be confined in this way because you see strange stipulations and empathy and imagination i have to say you may be right but let's try and imagine what you've never experienced let's see if we can imagine what life might be like without to it what else might might be disease which they may have and and then off the three months of the store thing which which gave us gave him in particular some feeling of hope i try to gain on the same medication and hospitals where i work the nurses and friends and other people may not some i can hardly believe that these patients sort of also a face because the patients may be so sensitive   many of them sort of transfixed and strange posh people would come to a complete stop and not including a stop inside the stream  stone sometimes very suddenly the statue would be animated the people would move for a few seconds and then you would see what a normal person might be there a vivid personality and then then they would freeze and that that that with that with that with that particular syndrome that kind of thing isn't a particularly dramatic experience of these neurological disorders neurological functioning of change and so forth that is your realm as it were and so forth and that there are these who had started to have difficulties and recognition in recognizing the faces of his students as soon as they spoke could recognize them and once the difficulties were only with the visual recognition  no no i'm directly she couldn't be aware however she was an intelligent woman and she you know she could infer that something's the matter and in particular suggestion motivation and you know at this time of course some you know then she would get sort of seven eighths she'd never completely finish it but this this is the first yes oh yeah this is actually one of the commonest